IF YOU made a list of the toughest Aussie pro street cars of all time, Ivan Tesic’s MRMAD LJ Torana would be high on it.
Our pro street scene was undoubtedly at its most exciting during the early 2000s, when blown and injected, big-cube nitrous and back-halved cars ruled the roost. It was around then that Ivan bought this car from racer Joe Cutelli, and not long after it was fitted with a 2500hp twin-turbo small-block Chev built by Ken Duttweiler (, Jan 2006).
