WARR HAMMER

SHIELDS GARAGE FINISHES OFF THE LATE NIGEL WARR'S DREAM HQ BUILD AS A LOVING TRIBUTE FROM HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND THEY DIDN'T FORGET THE GRUNT

- BORRIS VISKOVIC

AT FIRST glance, you might think this is just another HQ Monaro with a flash set of wheels. But don't let that flat bonnet fool you — there's enough hardware hiding under there to make close to 3000hp! But it’s not just the stonk and the incredible finish that makes this Quey so special; it also serves as a rolling tribute to the late Nigel Warr.

Nigel had begun the project and worked on it for around three years, but following his tragic passing in a motorcycle accident in 2023, Craig Glassby and his crew at Shields Garage decided to finish it off in his honour and debut it Red CentreNATS 10 — Nigel's favourite event.

From the outset, Nigel’s goal with the build was to recreate a much-loved car from his youth. “The story goes that Dad, back when he was late 20s or early 30s, had a yellow HQ with black stripes,” says his son Thomas. “We always wanted to do a big turbo, but Dad wanted to be able to drive it on the street, so it had to be under the bonnet and be relatively incognito, as far as a race car goes. But we still wanted to run a six-second pass in it.”