PUKE Burnout RTV. “Single legger fun… gay!”
Wear The Chaos
PUKE Burnout RTV started as a rough Falcon ute beside the house. Two years later it was at Powercruise 100, with a V8 under the bonnet and a string of outings, breakdowns and late nights behind it. Out There Oz was already going before the ute came along, but this story follows the car: getting the first motor in, getting it onto the pad and finding out what needed fixing next.
This feature is a look back over that run towards Powercruise 100. From the ute sitting beside the house to the first motor going in, then the trips, the breakdowns and the changes made along the way. It’s the short version of a build that deserves a proper telling, because the photos only show a few moments. There was plenty between them.
By the time Powercruise 100 came around, Out There Oz was involved as a sponsor, PUKE Apparel was there and the crew had both VUDOO and PUKE Burnout RTV at the event. Two years of getting this thing together had led to that weekend. Then, on Friday’s first run, PUKE’s bonnet came up and smashed the window. Rough as guts and ready to party… until it wasn’t.
That’s where this summary ends up, but getting there starts a long way from the track. Beside the house, with a ute that hadn’t exactly impressed everyone who looked at it.
'started as a rough Falcon ute beside the house.'
“What a bucket of shit.” Jason reckoned they should call it PUKE. That’s where it began.
“What a bucket of shit.” Jason didn’t need much time to come up with a review.
Bro took one look at the RTV and gave it a review that ended up naming the bloody thing. “What a bucket of shit.” Jason didn’t need much time to come up with a review. He reckoned they should call it PUKE, and the name stuck. That’s where this part of the story began: no grand introduction, just a fairly honest opinion of the thing sitting in front of them.
Looking at that early photo now, there’s a fair gap between the ute beside the house and the car the crew would eventually take to Powercruise 100. None of the trips or breakdowns had happened yet. The Haltech would come later too. First, they had to get a motor into it and turn the idea into something they could actually take out.
Cody was there with the camera while the first motor was going in, making a video for an update on the crew’s socials. The empty engine bay says enough about where they were up to. This wasn’t footage of a finished car being wheeled out for the first time; it was the work in progress, with plenty still to do.An event photo shows the ute out there doing its thing. Cody’s video shows what came before it.
Cody filming the first motor installation for an update on the crew’s socials.
“Rough as guts and ready to party”
The combination is a 5.4-litre, three-valve Falcon V8, the 220kW version, backed by a four-speed auto. The 220kW figure identifies the engine version, rather than a claimed result for this build. A Haltech Elite 550 is part of the setup now, although buying that wasn’t in the opening chapter. It followed the ECU failure at Leeton Nan’s Bash 2025.
“Rough as guts and ready to party” is still the best description of the RTV. It fits the ute and the way this journey has gone. Getting it out to an event was the aim, but each outing would add another bit to the story, sometimes a good memory and sometimes another problem to bring home.
One of those memories is Paul in the cabin, swearing at it with twelve hours left before the crew were supposed to travel to Nan’s Bash 2025. That photo probably explains the preparation better than a tidy build list ever could. There was a trip coming up, a ute that needed to be ready and not much time between the two.
Nan’s Birthday Bash brings friends, family and burnout cars together in Leeton to celebrate Lorraine “Nan” Tuckett. [1] For the Out There Oz crew, the 2025 trip also became a turning point in the RTV’s build. After a failed start, the ute went back on the trailer. The ECU broke, and that was why they ended up buying the Haltech 550.
It wasn’t the outing they’d been trying to get ready for twelve hours earlier, but it became part of what happened next. There were more events ahead, and Bega would give them a couple more reasons to get back into the ute.
'swearing at it with twelve hours left'
Twelve hours before travelling to Nan’s Bash 2025. Paul having words with the ute.
'twenty seconds into the run it broke the tailshaft'
After Nan’s Bash 2025, the next part of the run took the RTV to Sapphire Speedway in Bega for SouthCoast Tyre Torture, run by Motorsport Events Australia. The crew got it there and the ute got onto the pad, but twenty seconds into the run it broke the tailshaft. Twenty seconds. A fair bit of effort for a very short appearance, and another broken part to deal with before they could have another go.
The next outing at the same venue was the test and tune, where Paul took his mate CJ for his first ever burnout on a pad. It should have been a good chance to give CJ a taste of it and get some more time in the ute. They killed the engine instead. CJ got his first burnout, just with a fairly expensive ending for the crew. Another trip, another job to bring home.
Leeton Nan’s Bash 2025. Back on the trailer after a failed start.
A broken tailshaft, then a dead engine. Bega had given the RTV a fair bit to come back from before its next outing.
From Bega, the story moves on to Powerplay Sydney for the ute. The SS was at Powercruise 99.9, a separate outing with a different car. For PUKE, Powerplay was the next outing on the way to Powercruise 100.
By Powercruise 100, there was more to the trip than getting PUKE off the trailer and giving it a run. Out There Oz was involved as a sponsor, PUKE Apparel was there, and the crew brought VUDOO as well as PUKE Burnout RTV. With two cars there, the sponsorship and PUKE Apparel on site, it was a bigger weekend than a single entry on the pad. For the RTV, though, the job was still the same: get out there and give it a run.
Then Friday’s first run brought the RTV’s weekend undone. The bonnet popped up and smashed the window, leaving PUKE unusable. After two years of work and all the outings that had led there, that was how its first run at Powercruise 100 ended. VUDOO was there too, but it was PUKE that came back with the smashed window. A shit outcome after a lot of effort to get it there.
It also leaves this story with an unfinished car, rather than a tidy finish. The build didn’t stop being a build just because the crew reached Powercruise 100. The broken window is where this overview catches up with the RTV, and what comes after it belongs in the next updates. For event information beyond the crew’s own account, the official Powercruise website [2] is linked here.
Street & Country will now work back through the journey in three parts: where it began, how the ute came together and what happened on the way to Powercruise 100. That gives the first motor installation, the ECU change, the broken tailshaft and the engine failure room to make sense as stages of the same build. The focus stays on what changed with the ute and how it went at each outing.
The plan is one part a week for that opening series, then further updates when there’s something happening with the RTV. There’s enough in the actual build without making every small job sound like a major announcement. For now, this is the overview: a ute called PUKE, two years of getting it running and taking it out, and a smashed window on Friday’s first run at Powercruise 100. The next part goes back to the bucket of shit beside the house, before any of them knew how much of a story it was going to give them.
'The bonnet popped up and smashed the window,'
CREDITS, SOURCES & FOLLOW THE CREW
Build details, sponsorship and event account: Paul / Out There Oz. Photos supplied by Paul. Jason’s quote recalled by Paul.
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