Galant Effort

Drew friend’s Mitsubishi galant ‘skid car’ is nicer than many show cars.

- Iain Kelly 

WE KNOW how it is – you go to a car show and get all hepped up to go home and set the world on fire with your own build. That is exactly how Wollongong’s Drew Friend wound up building an awesome LS-powered Mitsubishi Galant. Well, sort of.

What started out as a simple skid-event car became a finely detailed machine that landed him in the Elite Hall Top 60 at Summernats 30.

“I got excited after Brashernats a few years ago and wanted to build a burnout car,” Drew explains. “I’ve always wanted a ’69 Capri but I couldn’t find one. My dad knew of this car, which he worked on years ago and it had already been sand-blasted, tubbed, ’caged and painted, but had gone no further.

“We acquired it and went about rebuilding it – which got out of control. My dad never does things by halves so if it was going to be done it had to be built properly.”

That is certainly the case when you inspect Drew’s Mitsu up close, drinking in all the finishing details. Sure, he might have had good bones to work with, but this coupe has been finished to a very high standard.