The Meguiar’s Great Uncover was so good at this year’s Street Machine Summernats 37, we’ve split our coverage of the unveiled cars into two parts!

You can read part one here, and now you can scroll below to check out the rest of the killer metal that wowed a packed Meguiar’s Pavilion on the Thursday night of ’Nats 37.

Frank Zammit – XW FALCON UTE

The team at ProFlo Performance always have some wild cars ready for the Great Uncover, and this year was no different. Along with Martin Pecotich’s HT Monaro, another car we were waiting to see finished is this tough-as-nails XW Falcon ute, owned by Frank Zammit.

After a false start with the first crack at the build, Frank took the car to Paul Sant at ProFlo, who cut it all out and started again. “It’s basically an XW only as a shell; everything else is custom and brand new,” said Paul.

Headline goodies include 22x12in rear rims, a stout twin-turbo SBF powerplant put together by the late Sam Fenech, and more sheet metal work than you can poke a welding stick at, right down to the silky-smooth drip tray. It’s also rocking an upgrade to IFS, and sticking your head inside the interior will yield the sweet smell of German Nappa leather.

Fenech Family – LJ TORANA

As an enduring tribute to Sam Fenech’s legacy, his family and a select group of friends and close customers lovingly completed the rebuild on his iconic LJ Torana, returning this Pro Street icon and formidable racer to the street for Sam’s family to enjoy.

“Mechanically, it’s very similar to when Dad first got it,” explained Sam’s son, John. “Our plan was to keep it simple and get it back on the road with a nitrous Holden V8.”

“We ran 8.34sec with a Buick-headed small-block back in the day, but the car is engineered and registered with a Holden V8, so it made sense to return to the car’s roots,” said Frank Fenech, Sam’s brother.

“Building the car with my uncles was very emotional, but ultimately we’ve built it the way Sam would have wanted,” John adds. The revitalised LJ’s unveiling at ’Nats 37 saw many younger street machiners introduced to this car for the first time, while for older fans, it was a re-introduction to an iconic piece of street machining history. 

The paint, trim and stance have all been updated to modernise the iconic ORSM Torana. 

Jere Skorin – HQ HOLDEN

Jere Skorin got his HQ Holden as an unseen project during COVID and immediately pulling it down with his mates. He opted for a colour change to a highly metallic orange nicked from an R35 Nissan GT-R, offset by a set of GTS-style white stripes. “I don’t reckon anyone’s done an HQ in these colours before, so I’m keen to get the covers off and let everyone see,” said Jere.

For power, the big ’Q is rocking a Dart 350 small-block knocked out to 427 cubes, which Jere reckons is good for around 550rwhp with the carby. “We only finished it up on New Year’s Eve, but the plan after Summernats is to just drive it; that’s what I built it for!” he said.

Jeremy Guljas – HG HOLDEN

Jeremy Guljas’ HG Holden is a labyrinth of custom sheet metal mods, including the bonnet that was painstakingly made by hand to clear the whopping Harrop ’charger on top of the Dandy Engines-built big-block!

“I started talking to Frank at Dandy about building this car to do Drag Challenge. We started prepping it for tubs and a ’cage, and I guess I just got carried away!” laughed Jeremy.

The subtlety of the sheet metal mods help make this HG a stand-out – take, for example, the deleted vents from the cowl panel around the windscreen wipers, or the modifications to the front valance. Other mods, like the radiator cover that swoops into the supercharger, are less restrained but executed to the same eye-wateringly high standard.

The fully detailed undercarriage is decorated with a driveline that’s been painted in a matte finish to complement the interior. “It’ll divide some people, but it really stands out against the detailed floor,” affirmed Jeremy. 

And while Jeremy’s aspirations of drag-and-drive stardom in the HG might be dashed, given the exceedingly high standard it’s finished to, he’s building a CV8 Monaro that will cop the abuse on the ultimate road trip torture test instead. 

Dean King – VK COMMODORE 

All Dean King wanted to build was a neat Blue Meanie replica with a mild engine, but fate had other ideas. “The engine I’d lined up fell through, and my painter took the opportunity to convince me to paint it black instead of blue,” he explained of the fork in the road that took his neat street cruiser build all the way to the Summernats Elite Hall.

The VK boasts a Dart-blocked, 427ci LS transplant, aided by a 2.9L Whipple blower and governed by a Holley ECU. A Turbo 400 and nine-inch rear end round out the driveline. 

The build was bowled over in an astonishingly quick three-and-a-half years – most of that surely taken up with painting the car several times to perfect the black duco.

Rose Gold-plated Simmons wheels do their best to much the lustre of the deep, black exterior and mask the whopping VF GTS brakes, while on the inside, Dean went with four Scheel seats as an homage to a traditional Brock-styled interior.

Kasia O’Shea – XR FALCON

Pat and Kasia O’Shea’s Pat’s Pro Restos workshop has such a prominent place in the Summernats elite show-car ranks, they’ve got six customer cars in the Top 60 just this year! This XR wagon is a bit different though, as it’s one of their own, belonging to Kasia.

The pair got the car six years ago, and Pat assured his lovely wife that it would be her own, treating it to a full resto to a standard well beyond what Ford could’ve managed in 1966. “It was nice to do something as a standard resto and have a break from all the heavily modified stuff we do like FORGED,” said Pat.

There were some changes made from standard, mainly the dumping of the original engine for a 302 V8. “We still have the 289 badges on there, but it’s definitely a 302,” said Kasia.

Daniel Hookham – VB COMMODORE SL/E

Daniel Hookham is no stranger to the Street Machine universe, with his 440ci pro street Capri having featured in the November 2021 mag and online. In fact, the Capri and his brand-new VB Commodore build have more in common than you might think.

“Five months ago, it was ready, running and dyno-tuned with an LS turbo combo, but that didn’t make the power I had hoped for. I had this Coyote sitting here for my Capri, so we made the decision to yank the LS and throw the Coyote in,” Daniel explained.

Imported from Fast Forward Race Engines in Florida, the engine makes a whopping 2800hp, and while Ford’s famous dual-overhead-cam donk might look much larger than a pushrod V8, it fits snugly in the early-Commodore engine bay, so the boys didn’t have to undertake any extra fab work.

“The goal was always to build a six-second, street-registered drag car, and it’s well and truly capable. Show cars aren’t my thing; this one kind of just happened!” said Daniel of the first car he’s ever entered into Summernats! 

Paul Johnstone – VK COMMODORE

For Paul Johnstone, seeing the covers come off his VK Commodore was both the ribbon on the end of a build started during COVID, and the realisation of a childhood dream. “I grew up reading car magazines like Street Machine as a kid. I knew I’d love to have my car in the magazine one day or have it unveiled, but I didn’t even know what you had to do! I just focused on building the best-quality car I could,” he said humbly.

The VK is a modern take on the iconic VK Blue Meanie look, painted Candy Blue for extra visual punch and riding on Schott billet wheels to further distance it from the norm.

The centrepiece of the detailed engine bay is the 355-cube stroker complete with trumpet injection, with the whole combination controlled by Haltech engine management. 

Now that he’s made it to the lofty heights of show-car stardom, Paul will display the car later in the year at Meguiar’s MotorEx in Melbourne, after which the VK will likely be relegated to street duties. 

Peter Raymond – XA FALCON UTE

Another raunchy Falcon ute to publicly debut in the elite uncoverings was Peter Raymond’s XC-fronted XA ute. The 351 Clevo has been mildly fettled, and the whole car was given a factory-fresh resto with just enough of a twist to differentiate it from the rest.

Inside is custom two-tone leather and an Auto Meter digital dash, while the outside is dipped in a one-off PPG blue and Vibrance clearcoat.

Ray Caruana – HK GTS MONARO 

The story of Ray Caruana’s stunning HK GTS Monaro build is one we’ve heard many times before: “I just wanted a clean pro street car, but when you’ve got mates like Ron Barclay in your ear, or Pat from Pat’s Pro Restos, or the guys from Mofo Customz all convincing you to just push that little bit further, it quickly gets out of hand!” Ray laughed. 

The big block-powered HK runs a McDonald Brothers tubular front end and a rear clip to help it achieve that ground-hugging stance, while the Weld wheels and menacing black paintjob certainly meet Ray’s criteria of a tough pro streeter!

The bright-red interior trim is perfectly matched by the red accents in the factory badges and body mouldings, and despite sublime black paint deeper than the Mariana Trench, Ray assured us the car will see street duties.

“After Summernats, we’ll finish the engineering process and be back on display at MotorEx with registration,” he said. 

Josh Sergi – VK COMMODORE

Josh Sergi was exceptionally well prepared for Summernats this year. Six months ago, he had his car ready for the event, refreshed with the latest round of modifications. All he had to do was clean it, but instead of spending those six months simply detailing his pride and joy, he instead stripped it down for a complete aesthetic overhaul!

“I was seeing more and more blue VKs, so we stripped it down and painted it black!” he explained. “It had Simmons rims on it too, and they became far more common, so we’ve got a one-off billet wheel that’s really unique.”

Mechanically, the VK runs a tunnel-rammed, Westend Performance-built 383ci Holden stroker that makes 700hp, with a Turbo 400 and built BorgWarner diff rounding out the driveline, but it’s the billet wheels that have us captivated.

“The wheels aren’t like anything anyone will have seen before, and are 22×12 on the rear,” Josh said. True to his word, the industrial-style rims with their gloss-black dish looked resplendent against the black body panels.

Adrian Portelli & Troy Candy – VT & VF HSV SENATORS

LMCT+ bossman Adrian Portelli and Eye Candy Motorsports’ Troy Candy took their shit-talking to the next level for Summernats 37, the pair each building their ideal HSV in a one-on-one build-off challenge, with an alleged budget of $100K each.

Adrian ironically took inspiration from Troy’s love of VT Commodores, handing off a VT Senator to the Rides By Kam crew to be retrofitted with a complete interior and driveline swap from a VF GTS. “Troy loves VTs, but the one downside is the interior,” said Adrian. “So, to fix that, we got a full VF one swapped over – heated seats, the lot! The Rides By Kam crew went hard on it over the past couple of months to get it here.”

As for Troy, he took a VF Senator and added his own twist to it. The new LS combo is a 416-cuber with no blower, instead sucking through a set of ITBs poking through the bonnet. The interior has been given a wild treatment of Tiffany Nappa leather, with the outside wrapped in Nardo Grey. Airbags allow it to sit as low as possible on the 22in Walky-style wheels.