RETURN OF THE King

PETER GRMUSA IS BACK ON THE PAD. AND HIS THUNDEROUS XA IS ALREADY BRINGING HOME THE BACON

-  TAS MCMILLAN

FOR those of you who don't know who Peter Grmusa is - all three of you - the man is a pre-eminent figure in the Aussie burnout world, with a list of wins as long as your arm. He's also a prolific car builder, turning out everything from clean streeters to mental pad-pounders. With a resume like that, we tend to pay attention when he shows up on the pad with a new weapon of mass tyre destruction.

"I've competed in Perth, Darwin, Sydney, Adelaide, Queensland, Tassie - I reckon I've nearly skidded all the way around Australia!" says the well-travelled Victorian. "I enjoy it whether I win or lose; just the thrill of being in the car and skidding. I just love burnouts!"

Peter clearly doesn't sit on his hands in his downtime, either; the bloke can't go more than a couple of years without building himself a new car, so it's not particularly surprising that after several years of competing in his legendary ATRISK XR Falcon, he decided to sell the car and move on to something he already had tucked away in his shed - this rather menacing XA Falcon, aptly dubbed KINGXA.