STRAIGHT ARROW

YOU could say Max Phillips jumped in at the deep end when, as a young bloke of just 20 years, he made the decision to fly across the country and buy a big block-powered, left-hand-drive US muscle car.

“I had a VX Clubby as a P-plater and got sick of that,” Max says. “It was pretty expensive to modify, it made no power and it was slow, so I thought, ‘I’m getting rid of this and getting an older car and making it fast.’”

Enter this ’74 Dodge Dart, which Max tracked down via an internet forum, when they used to be a thing. “It was for sale a few months earlier, but