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RAT-TASTIC!

SOMETIMES keeping things simple and going back to basics can yield the best results, and few builds demonstrate that as plainly as Steve Metcalfe’s cheap-as-chips FE Holden project.

Steve is no stranger to classic Holdens, with a collection of big-horsepower, show-quality rigs in his stable. But for this build, he decided to take a different approach. “I wanted to build something to show that you can do it all yourself, and you don’t need big bucks either,” he says.

The other big trigger for the project was spending a few weeks in the he US with the he Team En Enemiee Everywhere crew for the Horsepower Wars $10K Drag Shootout,

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