Street Machine

THIRD TIME’S a charm

IN AUGUST 2016, a fella named Jono Calautti drove his XD onto the Young Guns page of this publication. His Heron White streeter won lots of attention with its ruler-straight lines, fat ROH Modenas and one of the most sanitary engine bays we’ve ever seen in an 80s Falcon. “Let’s just say I’ve got a new combo in the works with more cubes,” he said back then. We’ve since learned he was really about to quadruple the power output!

Jono has been into cars since day-dot – thanks largely to his dad taking him to car shows in his XT GT – and after getting his licence he

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