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STRAIGHT SHOOTER

WHEN this HT Monaro showed up at the 2022 WA Hot Rod & Street Machine Spectacular, a lot of punters were trying to figure out which big-dollar custom shop had built it and, more importantly, who had done the arrow-straight panel and paint. Well, no big-dollar custom shop was involved, and the bloke who did the panel and paint was the same person who did 95 per cent of the other work: Lloyd Taylor.

Lloyd’s a pretty laid-back bloke, humble about his talents but more than happy to talk at length about what went into making one of the nicest HT Monaros you’ll ever lay your eyes on. Admittedly, it’s not exactly a ‘backyard build’, as Lloyd and his wife Caroline own Precision Collision in Karratha, a coastal town 1500km from Perth in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, famous for its

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EDITOR Andrew Broadley ART DIRECTOR Leah Gionis ADDITIONAL DESIGN Povi Pullinen SUB-EDITOR Jack Houlihan VIDEO & EVENTS PRODUCER Scott Taylor JOURNALIST Kian Heagney DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Mary Lee SOCIAL MEDIA NINJA Paul Cronin COVER PHOTO Ben Hosk

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