KNOCKING ON SEVEN'S DOOR
Street Machine Magazine|March 2022
JOSH TUSKIN’S BARRA-SWAPPED XW IS HEADING FOR THE SEVEN-SECOND ZONE, LEAVING A TRAIL OF BROKEN PARTS IN ITS WAKE
TAS MCMILLAN
KNOCKING ON SEVEN'S DOOR

JOSH Tuskin didn’t get much of a say in where his automotive allegiances would lie. “My old man always had an XR Falcon, ever since he was 18,” he says. “He had that many XWs and XYs, I guess that’s why I fell in love with them. Dad was right into buying and selling these cars; at one point it was one or two a week. I listened to him and when I was 12 I bought a set of XY guards for $750 and sold them for $1500.”

Josh’s careful buying and selling of parts and cars led to him purchasing this XW as a shell on a rotisserie when he was 16. After putting it back together with parts he’d collected, he spent the next couple of years torturing pre-crossflow sixes to death, including one attempt to rip a fat skid that broke both engine mounts and punted the fan into the radiator.

Eventually, the need for speed led Josh down the then-rare path of the Barra swap. “I wanted a car that would run a 10,” he says. “I’d never even drag-raced a car before, and it went 10.1 the first night I took it to Calder.”

The XW eventually ran 9.49@149mph with the standard engine, but after a lot more work and an ever-growing pile of broken parts, Josh got a new PB of 8.27@170mph. “I’ve broken every part of this car except… Nah, I’ve broken every part of this car!” Josh laughs, presumably to keep from crying.

This story is from the March 2022 edition of Street Machine Magazine.

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