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HELPING out your friends is an integral part of the car enthusiast life, and Billy Shelton’s immaculate VL build started off exactly that way. While his SICKO HQ Monaro (SM, Nov ’07) is going through a bare-metal rebuild, he and a team of mates have turned out this killer firstgen Commodore, packing a 1000rwhp turbo LS and immaculate detailing everywhere you look.

Billy and his mate Paul Butler of PB Automotive started off with a 90,000km-old, RB30-powered ’86 Commodore SL that Paul hadn’t got around to rebuilding. The pair then pushed through COVID and a crazy 12-month timeline to debut the eye-bashing sedan at the inaugural

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