Street Machine

GREG THORNTON

IT TAKES a special kind of bloke to fling an FJ Holden around a circuit and burnout pad at full tilt thousands of kilometres from home.

But it’s all in a weekend’s work for Collie’s Greg Thornton, who brought his killer ute to the NT for a crack at Gazzanats Darwin.

What’s your background in cars, Greg?

Since I was a kid, if it had a motor, I’ve been involved in it: motorbikes,

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