This US event (Urban Warfare, SM Nov ’10), revolves around driving your killer ride to five drag strips in the same number of days on a 2000km route trailer queens need not apply. It’s underway now - a five-window steel body Model A running a 598.”Īll was progressing smoothly on the Model A until George heard about Drag Week. “Once I couldn’t race, I decided to build the ultimate blown and injected big-block hot rod, have it properly engineered and get it registered. Racing remained his hobby until that sad day in 2005 when the drags died in suburban SA. However, with his feet to the fire George revealed that his brother’s Mouse soon made its way into his own HQ and while still in his teens he was pulling low 12s. “In those days I was using my brother’s 350 LH Torana but I don’t want to say too much ’cos I’m a Ford man now.” George is a car enthusiast who started drag racing at Adelaide International Raceway in the mid-80s, when he was 16 and the ink was still wet on his licence. To some, such as George and his kids, it’s the closest thing to heaven on Earth, while to certain others it seems, well, impractical at best. Yet, as the parachute suggests, it can’t be legally driven on the street.
George Bastiras’s 1963 Ford Futura coupe is a big-block beast with twin turbos, massive rear rubber and perfect chrome, stainless, panels and paint. Julia always asks what she can do to help, Alec wants to race it on his push bike and Jim can’t stop grinning when the engine’s running.” George then explains his three revhead offspring are just seven, five and 18 months old. This article on George’s Futura was originally published in the January 2011 issue of Street Machine
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Maybe it still is the Land Of The Free after all The Yanks are famous for their love of litigation yet George Bastiras’s 1963 Ford Futura coupe is street legal.
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