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EPISODE · Jan 19, 2026 · 38 MIN

248: Summernats 2026 Rundown

from All Torque Car Podcast · host All Torque Podcast Pty Ltd

Tom returned from Summernats and gave us this year's rundown. We look at the USA snapping up Aussie Ford "Barra" engines. Peter drove 992 Porsche 911 Turbo S in a wedding procession.Follow us on Instagram and email us [email protected]

Tom returned from Summernats and gave us this year's rundown. We look at the USA snapping up Aussie Ford "Barra" engines. Peter drove 992 Porsche 911 Turbo S in a wedding procession.Follow us on Instagram and email us [email protected]

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You do it like a tourist. Can we get up? Testing, one, two, one, two. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I can see the level. Yes. Okay. Can I start off?

You can start off. Show us your tits! What do you look at me? We did say that.

We did show that we're bigger than the live audience. Yeah. Yep. Get your gear off!

Okay, so obviously Thomas just got back from something else. And he's making hell on high water. How am I going to fix the game with you screaming to a microphone? Oh, hang on.

Let me do it. Show us your tits. Yeah, yeah, because that's how it sounded like. I'm going to settle all the V8s and burn out.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Was it that crazy? No, it's a family oriented place now. It's changed.

Look, I've been going for 30 years. Right. It's changed the shit load. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

You listening to the New Year's Eve? Happy New Year! Happy New Year! All talk, car podcast.

Show us your tits! Teets! You look very far. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I wasn't looking for you, but you know, I have to get the running away. Peter owners, you've got Tom the Rover report. We've got the live audience and security's got a turn up soon. So we've got the start because we're hungry.

Yes, we are. We've done Japanese at... You know, on September. Yeah, you know, on September.

No, no, no, no. I'm tired. I've had three weeks off and I'm more tired now than I was before. It's September not.

We went to Tippanyaki at Summer Nuts. Tippanyaki. I've rang up the restaurant. They said they couldn't have come in 8 for 25 people.

How many of these are down there? Yeah, but there was friends and it was good. It was a friend of mine from... Hang on.

Who knows? Who they called? The Marker Fenders of Foliaton. Tough street machine.

No? What's that say? Sorry. We're looking at a sign on the wall or a sticker.

Yeah, tough street machine. Tough street machine. They've got a... They've got the podcast.

Yeah, yeah. They came with all their... They've always been there with the crew. I said, no, they've got real followers.

They followed. Yes. They did that with 25 people. So he had real followers with him.

Yeah. Anyway, sorry, I'll bring up and I'll go and wait. You just put us on the last... You know, when the last seeding's done.

Yeah. And we'll finish off the mission. Yeah. I tippanyaki's like, we can turn it on.

That's not the train. Anyway, and then they ring me and I'll go and... Or you can get rid of... If you've only got four equals six people coming, tell them swap times.

They ring me back. You've got the whole restaurant. Oh, they can. Thank you.

Anyway, 13 rocked up. 32. More followers. And we couldn't fit all of the tables.

So we had to have a spin off the side. I can't... But everywhere we were for dinner, they catered for us. Even not booked in or whatever.

Can't relate to business. Yeah. I can't remember the restaurant we went to. We actually ate there twice.

And... What areas do you got here? Because there's a few good little pockets. Yeah.

Well, that's... I've learnt now to hang out at Bratham. What's the rate called? Londstyle.

The Londstyle's... Bratham. Bratham. It's a part of it.

And Londstyle is a street where they have their elite... You know, you don't have the special parts to get in. Because we... There's a lot of restaurants we used to go with need where the cricket ground is.

Marnika. Marnika, is that it? I'm a Luga. I didn't drink that much, but I drank enough for not to remember much.

There's a lot of restaurants there. I remember the story. There's also nightclubs there where... A cousin of mine took on two camera raiders and lost.

That's where the fucking... I mean, it's... Campbell's very busy. Like, apparently he twice the amount of entries this year.

To me it was... Well, let's go to some of that. Yeah. So you took down the Mustang.

I know, that's really fine. Yeah, that's really fine. Oh, faithful had it had it had it go. I mean, it's too, yeah.

Two water bottles on the list of the bottle, pop it open. Yeah. And it's nice enough to cool enough the car is it. So why is it over here?

Is it right there? Well, if you jumped in that car, and then parked it as soon as you came back from some of that. Yeah. And then the following year, a day before some of that, you gotta go back and check anything.

Okay, so... We've been doing that for what? Ten years. Was the Acorn working?

No, really. No, it was the car. Security's here. Happy to be here, buddy.

Nice hair. So the Acorn wasn't working? Nah, it was. I was driving on the highway.

Because that was the best thing about that car. But never looks at it. No, ten years ago, not going back. No, no, no, no.

If I have questions, everyone else. I can't let you say why everybody's looking at that shit box. Yeah, I know, but it's a good idea. Yeah, that's right.

No, it's good. But if it ends up going next year, which I think I'll take that up. With the Mustang. With the Mustang?

I'm gonna take it a month before and fix the other heat. So the Mustang was ready to go down. She needs wheels. And we went to Seema.

It's registered. To move for wheels. Twice. And you didn't find any wheels.

Because it's hard when you get there at two o'clock in the afternoon, isn't it? No, because everything starts looking the same. At three o'clock. But back to something else.

Yes, yes, yes. I'll shut your tits. Teets. Teets.

Well, I think they're trying to change it and not have a cruise route, really. Well, they had, we've explained it in previous podcasts. So they're at the Exhibition Park. It's like a three kilometer road, like a circular.

No, circular. It goes the perimeter of the park. There's a lot of events in the trutting track in the middle. There's a lot of buildings, like a bit of quiet type buildings.

Yeah. Showers and races and shops and merchandise and things like that. And it's a lot of spread out. And then in the middle, they've got the burnout.

So they're in our street. Burnout. All the competitions, the ten people. And you used to go around.

You used to take about five minutes to get around. You can't speed. But that back area used to be empty. Is it still fluent to get around now?

How else are taking it to around? A lot now. And how to do it? A lot now.

A lot now. A lot now. A lot now. A lot of people.

They're open up at another door. Like to get driving it out. Yeah. Right.

They need the one you just serve out. Yeah. They should always block the server. Yeah.

But they should open it so you can get it out. Because a lot of people have troubles with their cars heating up and all that. And they need to get out to go to server. We were overheating off.

This is when it started. I thought, you know, why take a chance? I'll get out. I'll go.

Go. Go. Let me out. No.

Okay. So if I fucking go down there and break it up for everyone. Like everyone's been doing. That's okay.

You can't get out of here. Okay. So you're going to let me go down there. I understand.

Oh, look at the rules. They're all down. They open the gate when they disqualify the walk. Yeah.

When they kick somebody out there. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. So do you reckon it's a money grab now? You reckon there's. They're just let as many cars here.

And it's wrecked. I mean, there were a lot of cars here. But a lot of what parked. So you say it's double cars.

I see the record was put in half. I see four in half. Apparently. Apparently.

Apparently. I'm not sure numbers. But it's a much safer event. Right.

It's more family. I rotate it for sure. But they've got the burnout, buddy. Yeah.

No, inside it. In the middle. We're 20 years ago screw it near and use the screw it. Yeah.

That's where they got your. It's great. It's great. Just more thing.

They have all the cars on the running track. They have all that. It's good. Well hard to organize.

Shit hard to organize. But they do it well. They've had enough practice. You know, it's 30.

You company. No, no, no. We'll drive to drink. So you've ended in the last sort of five, six years ago.

What about? It's now money grab. It is. I'll tell you.

I reckon that half of it now is Adrian's. Adrian's. Adrian. The guy from Port of Lillie.

Whatever. I can't do it. I'll tell you. I'll tell you.

I'll tell you like, I'll still like know what to do now. Like, next year my son will be on after Cruise, right? He'll cruise to the Mustang. Yeah.

But I'll park up at Long Zal Road. I'd say at the pub like Banos was doing. Yep. I just talked to everyone.

Like everyone seems to be heading there now. Like close that road earlier and early every day. Because it just gets packed. No, it's just like it's a good festival.

You've got to have a special pass on your car. Okay. It's like another cars and coffee. But like another six of the show.

I like that. Even though I got to. They got the cruise. Yeah, they got the outside cruise.

That's true. On the first time we'll get in there and they'll have a cruise and they'll block off the roads. So we have to drive all the way to the walk to get to the crew. The crew near me.

The crew near me. Yeah, they'll have the cruise and they'll drag all the way down. Yeah, but the crew near me. They're screwing you for the crew.

No, no. We have to go to the crew near me. We have to go past the crew's route. Yeah.

Everything's blocked off. So we have to go ride around to go to the road stadium. Yeah. Yeah.

The crew near me. The crew at the same time. It doesn't matter. It's got rid of the street.

It's actually two. And three years I think it's been there for. Far out. It's changed.

It's massive. What's going on with the crew near me? It's quick. You know, like that.

We just say family oriented because they show they use the fight for the brand. Yeah, it wasn't me. But yeah, there you go. You had a friend.

You had a friend. You had a friend. You had a friend. Hey, one, two, three, four fights.

You're talking like hundreds of thousands of people. No, it's not mine event. It's not incident. It's not incident.

It's not a camera phone. There's no camera phone. We don't see many burnouts. You can see the Facebook.

There was hundreds of them. Yeah, but they're crazy that corner said they not. Yeah, see that. Okay.

It's just like the boys in theirs. They went a bit crazy too. Because they're not going to go back in. But the penalty, what they called afterwards is they went getting invited back.

For Nick's year. I know because I gave them my numbers one year and they fucked me. You know what I mean? I got burnt.

I wasn't allowed to. Well, the super number 0024, you've done the biggest burnout. No, I could see for miles. But that's the first of the road.

No, no, no. You've got the track. The track. The route.

The circular road. The vehicle was still two ways. Things are changed. It's becoming.

The security guards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot more this time. They got the how to shoot load of security which is great.

So, does everyone else want to go after they come back? No, because of Summit. Where are you going to go? What's your start?

You really want to come back? I'll get it. I'll get it. I'll get it.

I'll get it. I'll get it. What's your start? You're stuck.

Don't let me get out. He was going again by eating dumplings. I went dumplings. I went dumplings.

I went there. There's a dumpling restaurant. You want the dumplings? Remember the one underneath the ground?

The star? No, no. Well, the running for the windows. No.

No, but. Chag kind of dumplings. I'll be playing the actual ones. The actual?

The actual. The big one. The big one. We're playing the dumpling playing today.

Oh, listen. You've had the best ones underneath your office. No, they still like shit. Now, didn't know that.

No, you've said that in the last short. No, we'll got an actual. You want dumplings. Right, right.

You get like 10. Not just three on a plane. You'll try. dumplings, Italian, might be young already.

Yeah, of course you did. No, it was good. Someone else is good, it's a good event. It's not a fake camera is it?

Yeah, we had buffet breakfast. Yeah, because we started the crowd. At the crowd plaza? Yeah, the next time.

Even if you go to the casino, I can't believe it. Listen, let's, okay. Calling it like a cino is like calling attention at school, prison. Okay, okay.

That's not a casino. It's not a casino. There's no machines in there. No.

Who knows? But you're walking a cab like a cino. It's the size of probably your, your fact, your workshop, you're in the industry. It's about four bars, three to two V screens, they're just tables.

And they forget there's no atmosphere. Yeah, I didn't go. I didn't go at all. But next year we've already told them I tried to get my numbers already and they've changed that too.

There's a form you've got to fill in for your numbers. Yeah, you're not getting your numbers back. Yes, I'll fucking eat. Okay, all right, okay.

I've had a third year. How do you do you mate? All right, hey, great things. So we're on to them already.

But my son will drive the Mustang. Yeah. And I'll take the, so the car that took you 20 years to build, you're gonna give it to a 17 year old. So he's, he's, he's son.

He's a dick and a. That's why this year I still like Shadymott to do. Go here Shadymott to do. I don't hold the steering wheel.

Yeah, no, like I'll get straight, just to make it easier. Oh, well you don't have anything next year. Yeah, I thought I will be with you. What do you think I'm going to do with you?

Thanks for like two jags or one car. You're gonna take our faithful down to as well. I'm taking our faithful. You're taking the SV and the other.

But yeah, if I go to fix it, so I doesn't have anything. Count the car guy shout out once to drive the HSB reached out to me on Instagram. So it was obviously in CUS. It's going to be down to some of that.

You should have thought he was going to see Tom catch up with the car guy, his own channel. You should have fucking yelled out. He probably didn't see it. He had four and a half thousand cars, my God.

Mate, I'll tell you, it was about that day. It was hot. We need SVE. It was a killer.

Well, the time we got stuck in the traffic in there, the hard traffic, the cars on three corners, like it was frying, just reading up. But you was all right, you didn't burn it in. No, because it happened last year, the year before, I knew. And then for some of that reason, I got a couple cars, I had water bottles stuck on the leaf.

Am I? That's a temperature camera that's SVE. 40, because it got to 40. Because it SVE got to 44.

You know, SVE got to 44. Was the hottest country in the world? The hottest place in the world. Yeah, okay, that's it.

The hottest country. SVE. But yeah, we put two water bottles underneath the corner and had it up a bit. Mate, mate, the world of the city.

Well, guess what I did on Saturday? What? That's why he came. You know that.

I wore a suit. He'd drive the fucking... What? Saturday day.

He'd drive the two by S for a wedding. Crazy. Mate, it was fucking hot. And we're on Acree Jap, Juroway.

But this is the broader procession. They had four motorbikes, those big fucking dog wheeled chop up. Yeah. So, four drunk there was at the front.

The... That a brand new... So, the uncle had a brand new for O296. That's the new Ferrari.

The 296, it's like this year last year's model. So, that was the lead car. Then there were two Lamborghini eventadors. When I was a couple of months old, like the big boys.

Then there was the L2BOSs, the 997 and the 992. And the groom's dad had a GT2 RS Porsche. So, the 3 911s. Two pop people.

Yeah, they're struggling. They're working class. And then there was two Rolls Royce full drives for the wives and the family. Yeah, working class.

They worked hard. And we drive from Dural, the city to St Mary's Cathedral. The procession and the bikes. Now, no, no, while they use the bikes.

They stop at the roundabouts block the traffic. Oh. Yeah, so we're all together. It's not bad.

Yeah, the bikes had it all worked out, right? And so we're going there, but this is a thing. What class dates out? You got the Lambo's.

You got the 911's. What's stood out to you? Okay, so if you were standing on the side of the street watching this procession go, the Lambo's are not bright red. They stand out.

Oh, they're bright red too. One's a bright red. Yeah, red cars, man. Yeah, and then the two blacks are the silver GT2 RS.

Red stands out, especially if it's got 10 trimmers. That's the ultimate. Which car broke down the way there? Which car?

Which car? No, the Porsche is the one the Lambo's over heated. Yeah, well, it's freaking hot, man. Because we had our, my gris, my gris, my jacket's still on.

I'll do a grip chat. There were six greens on his, and everyone was snogging to everyone. And the guys in the Lambo's were naughty. And Regretta going in there.

And everyone in the Porsche is with 5V. Give it a sec, I see. Yeah, but that was over 30, that's over half a car's over heat. And dude, he's not, he's not, he's not worried.

They're not worried. They're all worried. I'm the furry way. Yeah, we're in guard.

Like they pulled out a debate. So that was... I'm going to turn the tripping into some of that. Okay, there's like 50 cars over heated.

But for what temperature we've reached, there wasn't many. You think to yourself, they done fucking well to manage their cars. Yeah. Like a lot over here, they keep me wrong.

But long... I'm going to talk to you on the other way, aren't you? You think? Do you have to do it for a couple of hours?

Yeah. Yeah, but was they killed? That's why they're taking me back to the side of the brief. And then at the end, I remember the only exit left was gate 9, I think.

Which is the back one. Like... No, that wasn't further back. You got to have some horses, yeah.

They have no skates down there. Yeah, there's a set of gates up there. Yeah, because the main road there though. No, you've got to go through the dirt and come down the back of it.

Like they haven't up weed. Okay. And like you clean your car and you've got to drive it. And then they had fucking mats on the ground.

Yeah. Right. And with the wind, they're bending up and I could hear it hitting the VN underneath. Yeah.

I imagine these guys were fucking cuckoo heads. Yeah, everything's just a... Well, if you can't hit the Mustang underneath, I'll be spewing. I painted that thing underneath.

It's all the macula underneath and it's going to fucking up. I always... It's a very unique show. It's unique to the world in the United States.

I mean, you're not talking about Goodwood Festival. I was trying to take it to the... Seema. Like everyone's got...

Seema. Seema. Seema is the most unique. Even Seema's copied stuff from Seema.

Yeah, they do burnouts. They do burnouts. Hey, I don't know how to do burnouts in America. We talked about this year when we went in last year.

You know, we taught them. How to do them? Yeah, there was a very harsh Commodore doing burnouts in that... Jim Carner.

Yeah, anyway. Anyway. What I always wanted... I mean, Tocky used to go to all these events.

I wish... right? I wish he came to some of that. Imagine Jeremy Clarkson at some of that.

That would be cool. Now, imagine what car... What car drinking would it had? I don't know, but what you saying is.

You had Rock Go there? There's a lot of celebrities. There's a fair few things. There's never been a show or a lot of luck.

No. Imagine... That would have been cool. Either thing get three, they would have not had three cars.

I had no cars. What do you reckon Clarkson would turn up you? You would have gotta be Colguier who would probably beat them. So he'd be late, and then James May would have probably got a layland, P76, he would have got something with a bit of a British twang.

No, I wouldn't go that stuff. around here with us all to round up to like the XU one or something. It's amazing. I don't know.

I got a feeling that we're invited once. OK. But you think that comes. I've watched it.

Quickly. I'm not going to come in Australia. But they've got around the world. We've got to come.

They're driven to the North Pole. They don't even know where Australia is. They're done Australian. They're done Australian.

Yeah. But not someone else. You always told me that in America, they're only America. Yeah.

The very... They're way too... They're way too. They're way too.

They're way too. They've got no idea who we are, what we do, anything. We just found out that they're buying all our baro engines. Yeah.

We've found out that. OK. Yeah. Because the...

I forget the street outlaws came into race. The American V8. The street outlaws came out into race. Right.

And they freaked out over the forwards. They got two containers of engines. So they brought two containers or a container full of baro engines. So two of the four-way engines.

Yeah. To put in the... I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I've got a shitload of them apparently. Wow.

And that laugh. One of the guys with us has got a... Ford. I don't know what the fuck it is.

G6E. Yeah. There you go. It's a turbo one.

All of these done has changed the turbo. Yeah. It's got 700... 50 horsepower.

At the rear wheels. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure you have to change the gearbox too.

Those gearboxes. No. Everything in the car is strong. I don't know.

Anyway. I'm just saying. 750. Yeah.

Those F6s, the turbo, the G6E, is out of the luxury version. All those... Yeah. XSX turbos.

All those cars were underrated and underpowered. They didn't want to... They didn't want to have a take on V8. They didn't want to have a take on V8.

Or apparently the Americans freaked out over them. Yeah. And bought containers, filled up containers. Yeah.

You think of... Like clicking about... Now up when Colin told me his car's got 750 horsepower because they went dumb burnouts at night somewhere. Which car...

Which car is there? Ford. Whatever it is. Was it...

It was a... For transit van was it? No. I thought...

Yeah. Well, then we told you that... Gs... Gs...

Oh, the G6E. Right. And when he told me the 750 horsepower and they've hadn't changed it so long... Yeah.

It's unbelievable. Mate, I'll put that in a terrana. I imagine a terrana. A fucking screw.

It's... The off machines made a good product. The rest of the car fell apart around a bit. Mate, no.

No. No. It's so unique. There's no...

Hold on. No. Well, I'm afraid that we're talking about America. Like...

Well, that's... That's news to me. Yeah. The drag...

Those street outlaws that ever bought a container. Yeah. I feel like a tailor with a motor. Yeah.

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