Street Machine

STREET FIGHTER

WE’RE very much in favour of heavily modified Aussie cars that straddle the line between streeter and full-blown drag car here at Street Machine. Frank Russo’s fattypowered PROVC1 Commodore is all that and more, while being completely engineered and street-legal.

It’s a story that started way back in 1989. “Mum and Dad bought the VC SL/E for me when I was about 21 years old,” Frank says of what was then a Nocturne Blue, 253ci-powered, optioned-up Commodore.

Straight up, young Frank did as any self-respecting late-80s revhead would – he whacked on a set of

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