Street Machine

TURBO CHARGER

SHANE Graham didn't know much about Valiants when he bought his VJ Charger 15 years ago. He was 19 years old and in the market for an HQ coupe until this car popped up on eBay. “The look and colour sold it for me,” he says.

It helped that the car was fairly local and had just been treated to an incredibly fresh resto; the seller had driven it down to the local exhaust shop and back, and that was it! He wanted to go travelling, so had decided to move the Charger on. While the car was a turn-key concern, it didn’t last long in that form. “Apart from the now-15-year-old paint, I’ve changed

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