BLOCK & TACKLE
ONE of Australia’s quickest street cars, Daniel Szabolics’s HQ Monaro, is about to get a new heart as Dan and his accomplice, Frank Marchese of Dandy Engines, chase mid-sixes with the 4016lb, 275 radial-shod brute. Propelled by a walloping 632ci big-block Chev packing twin 94mm Precision Pro Mod snails, the Monaro made headlines last year by rattling off Drag Challenge’s quickest and fastest pass with a 7.35@197mph. It later went 7.01@202mph on what Dan described as a “soft” amount of boost.
They never really got a chance to explore the limits of that near-11-litre combo. Dan received an offer that was too good to refuse, so he moved
