SALVAGE JOB

IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE PILE OF SHIT, BUT WE COULD SEE THAT, JUST MAYBE, IT MIGHT HAVE SOME POTENTIAL

MIKE Roycroft hates to admit it, but he’s a Valiant guy through and through. I guess we could blame his dad, Phil – whose S-Series Valiant we featured in SM, July 2018 – because this isn’t the first Valiant Mike has built. He competed in the burnout scene with BLOWN VAL for a few years, even bringing it across the country to Summernats 25 from his hometown of Perth. That car is undergoing a major rebuild, with a blown Hemi just part of the equation, so it’s turned into a more of a long-term project.

So what’s a bloke to do? Get another project, of course! Mike jumped on Facebook and found this VH Valiant hardtop for sale. “I had little to no expectations of the car’s condition; I only