Most cars in the Summernats burnout competition are tagged with the signage and logos of their many sponsors, except for one innocent-looking white family Toyota.
Across the rear window of the ACT-registered sedan were the simple, poignant words: 'In loving memory of Glenn Dunster'.
Glenn Dunster had been just 29 when he climbed into the rear seat of a friend's car after a drinking session at the Lighthouse Bar in Belconnen. It was just after 1am on February 1, 2014.
On William Slim Drive, the car suddenly veered off the road for 20 metres and crashed head-on into a tree.
Glenn Dunster died at the scene and the woman riding in the front passenger's seat was injured.
The driver of the car, Jake Richardson, returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.19 and was sentenced to more than three years' jail for culpable driving.
Throughout the lengthy court case that followed, Mr Richardson repeatedly claimed that the woman in the front passenger's seat had ripped the steering wheel from his hands and caused him to crash. The magistrate found otherwise.
For the families of all involved, it was a heart-wrenching outcome: one young man dead and another grieving and in jail.
For Callum Dunster, he couldn't think of a finer tribute to his much-loved cousin and great mate than to try to buy back Glenn's old Toyota and enter it for the Summernats burnouts.
"Glenn and I were very close, more like brothers than cousins," Callum Dunster said.
"This is exactly what Glenn would have wanted; to see his car in the burnout competition at Summernats.
"Glenn was a wild child and had a wicked sense of humour. He would have loved the fact that we've done this."
Some serious engineering was involved to make the clunky old Cressida, one of the most "vanilla" family cars Toyota ever produced, even capable of spinning its rear wheels.
Out went the old six cylinder and in came a Chevrolet V8 with a modified, anti-stall transmission.
To make the burnout finals in Canberra is fiercely competitive with more than 100 drivers attempting to make the cut. Everything has to go exactly right.
When his time came on the burnout pad, Callum Dunster gave it everything.
The car ran faultlessly, the smoke was continuous, his arm went out the window and both rear tyres blew out as needed.
But disaster struck when the rear of the Toyota banged off the track's concrete barriers not once, but twice.
"If you tag the wall, it's instant elimination," he said.
"I'm not sure what went wrong. It got away a bit from me. Maybe I'm not quite used to driving it.
"But we gave it a red-hot crack, and for Glenn's sake that's all that matters."
