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    CARRYOVER CHAMPION

    Jul 13, 2022 6 minutes
    STORY CRAIG PARKER
    PHOTOS
    ALISTAIR BROOK

    EASTER long weekend 1975: Tony Ross and his buddies Glenn Halliday and Graham Rawlie head out of Adelaide in Tony’s pin-sharp FC Holden, DREAM ON. Their destination? The inaugural Street Machine Nationals hosted by the ’55-’56-’57 Chevrolet Club of NSW in Griffith. Little did they know that the FC would finish the event with a bunch of trophies, including the big one: Top Overall Street Machine!

    “We had very few aspirations; for us it was more of a great road trip,” Tony recalls. “I remember having a lot of fun in the driving events; I won the go-to-whoa and was very happy to finish second to a Mini Cooper S in the slalom. I also won Top Sedan and Best Standard Paint, but I was in total shock that out of 117 entrants, I was awarded Top Overall Street Machine, which came with an amazing three-foot-tall trophy!”

    The best part of the story is that, after passing the car on

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