Rob Pikington has been sitting out of drag racing for some time but now the former supercharged Ute racer is bringing in a Top Alcohol Funny Car complete from the USA.

Pilkington has purchased the race car as a running operation which will have the latest BAE Hemi motor sitting up front along with a PSI supercharger and B&J Transmission.
The car has been raced by Bucky Austin in the US and Pilkington will be going to the World Finals in California to see its final laps before shipping it back to Australia.
Rob and wife Jackie plan to run the car in the AA/Funny Car class first in Top Comp before stepping up into Top Alcohol. He will certainly have a bit to get used to with the Monte Carlo-bodied car running a best of 5.53sec. at over 410km/h.
"It's a long way from running the HG ute doing 7.0sec.," said Pilkington.
"It's been a long time in the making, Jackie and I have worked pretty hard to be able to get back into racing competitively."
Pilkington is not an entire stranger to Funny Cars, having steered Damien Harris's car briefly in 2002.