Australia's quickest street car is this 1980 Holden Commodore

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

1 min read

Street Machine magazine’s Drag Challenge event brings out the most insane cars to wear licence plates in Australia, and Terry Seng’s famous HDT275 1980 Commodore is among the quickest.

Seng, the man behind Toowoomba’s Paramount Performance, has raced his street registered VC-series Holden all over Australia, having run as fast as 7.3 seconds for the 0-400m quarter-mile dash.

At Street Machine’s first Drag Challenge Weekend, a three-day version based in Queensland of their annual week-long Drag Challenge event run out of Victoria, Seng stopped everyone in their tracks when he rocked this 7.6 second pass at 179mph. It was the quickest pass in Drag Challenge history, and was the fastest run of the Drag Challenge Weekend.

Unfortunately, teething issues earlier in the weekend prevented Seng from running as fast and knocked him from contention for the Tuff Mounts Radial Blown class, or the outright win.

Iain Kelly is the revhead behind The Creators Online.

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Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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