The twin-turbo stormer cleaned up at Saturday’s presentations
The unveil hall at Street Machine Summernats 35 was an absolute bonanza of mind-blowing metal, but Matt McIntosh’s twin-turbo small-block-powered HQ Statesman was unmissable, and not just thanks to its enormous rose gold Simmons!
Owen Webb and the judging team seemed to agree, bestowing the Stato with the Top Judged gong alongside Top Engineered, Top Bodywork, Top Undercarriage/Driveline, Top Engine Bay, and Top Pro Custom.
“We wanted a good, clean street car but as we were going, we turned it into an elite car,” Matt says of the build, which was completed almost entirely in-house at Matt’s Echuca Service Centre.
