If you have never taken a powerful car and threw it around on dirt, you ain’t living right. You’re basically telling me that every 1970s movie, The Dukes of Hazzard, and every other bit of media that has shown you how much fun you can have on an unpaved road has done nothing for you? I don’t believe it. That tells me that you don’t know the joys of easy steer-by-throttle control or that you haven’t held a powerslide for what feels like ages with the engine hanging in it’s upper register. I’ve got stories miles long about the stuff I’ve done off-road. We all do here. It’s easy to have a ball in something appropriate, like a K5 Blazer or a Subaru with a set of all-terrains on it. But if you haven’t kicked the back end of a Caprice out on a gravel road, or you haven’t ripped some dirty donuts in a field in a Nova, then stop now, go do that, then return.

The blue car you’re seeing is a VK-era Holden Commodore SS. Just like the closest analogy to the U.S. market I know, the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS, the Commo SS was meant to get some homologation pieces into the racing world. And as a result, you have 4.9L and 5.0L V8-powered four-door sedans that look like this that are either show-quality restored, are out blazing tires any chance they get, or are sitting in sheds waiting to be brought back to life. This one, however, has a life, has a pulse, and has a soundtrack to die for. Is it a real Peter Brock Group A car? Doubtful. But do we care? Hell, we still view ’em as forbidden fruit here. Anyone who has the brass ones to take one on the dirt and drive it like they mean it is good with us!