KNOCKOUT BLOW

MARTIN PECOTICH'S BLOWN HEMI-POWERED HT MONARO TAKES THE CONCEPT OF PRO STREET TO A NEW LEVEL

- IAIN KELLY

THESE days, building an iconic Aussie muscle car into a truly stand-out street machine is no easy task - especially when the car in question is a first-generation Monaro. Coming up with a genuinely different spin on the HK-T-G coupe formula requires a ton of creative thinking, along with an extra-large set of stones!

Clearly, Sydney's Martin Pecotich possesses both attributes, as the HT Monaro he created with Paul Sant and the ProFlo Performance crew offers a fresh take on a contemporary pro street Monaro. From its one-off wheels, hand-made chassis and sumptuous, almost factory-looking trim to that epic 14/71-blown, 533ci billet Noonan H2O Hemi poking through the bonnet, this Monaro definitely walks the path less travelled.

We first featured Martin's HT in the March 2024 issue when it was still untrimmed, sitting in bare steel. Since then, ProFlo has blown the car apart and finished it to a top-shelf level in time for its unveiling at Street Machine Summernats 37 earlier this year.

"I don't think I fully appreciated the scale and scope of the build until I saw it at Summernats," says Martin. "When I looked at it all finished, I felt disbelief that this was something I own. But it was a long journey to get here."

Starting with a basic rolling shell that came from Martin's mate in Western Australia, the ProFlo team wasted no time cutting the floors out to begin giving it the signature attitude we've come to expect from Sydney's pro street gurus.