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    STAR of the SHOW

    Aug 12, 2020 5 minutes
    STORY ANDREW BROADLEY
    PHOTOS
    MITCH HEMMING

    EVER watch those Seppo car shows on television and wonder how they manage to cobble a car together in record time to any sort of respectable standard? Just ask Luke Mitchell of Advanced Motorsports; the struggle is real.

    This positively gorgeous LJ Torana was built from the ground up in just four months for Aussie TV show Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars, and there’s no questioning the standard to which it is finished – it landed in the Elite Top 10 and won a swag of tinware at Street Machine Summernats 33, which is a hell of an effort given the timeframe of the build.

    “We were approached to do the show by the producer Rob, who was just a normal car guy,” says Luke. “We decided to go ahead with it and we

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