Year Book 2021

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AS WE go to print this issue, I’m pulling out all the stops to get my Torana ready for the Haltech Birthday Bash at Sydney Dragway on 18 December. For those who don’t know the car, we installed a Harrop 2300 blower on a wrecker-spec Holden 5.0-litre
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EDITOR Andrew Broadley ART DIRECTOR Leah Gionis ADDITIONAL DESIGN Povi Pullinen, Brendon Wise SUB-EDITOR Brett Collingwood VIDEO & EVENTS PRODUCER Scott Taylor JOURNALISTS Kian Heagney, Jack Houlihan DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Mary Lee SOCIALS Paul Cron
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More Legends!
YEARBOOK 2021: ALL THE NEWS THAT MATTERS OUR 40th-anniversary year has been a cracker, and what better way to round it out than with a killer, 144-page hard-cover opus? Street Machine Legends Volume One hit the shelves in 2019 and covered the most in
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> HOT GOSSIP
MOTORSPORT enthusiast and businessman Tony Quinn has recently acquired Queensland Raceway for $12 million from John Tetley. The sale means Quinn has added QR to his existing circuit portfolio of New Zealand’s Hampton Downs, Highlands and Taupo Motors
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Rogan Nova Breaks Cover
DECEMBER 2021: ALL THE NEWS THAT MATTERS WHETHER you love, hate or are gloriously indifferent to US podcast giant Joe Rogan, there is no doubt the bloke loves his cars and is prepared to spend big to achieve his automotive dreams. His latest commissi
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Peter Hondow
IF YOU’VE ever driven through the remote town of Alice Springs, you’ve surely admired the surprising number of custom cars parked up at the pub. We’ve got Peter Hondow to thank for that. Peter has dedicated the past 16 years to restoring rare steel o
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Chris And Sophia Williams
THEY say variety is the spice of life, and this rings blisteringly true for Brisbane couple Chris and Sophia Williams. With a list of enviable rides to their credit and plenty more still on the go, it’s obvious they’re neither brand nor style oriente
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The French Connection 1971
While Bill Hickman took care of the trickier stunt car work, it turns out Gene Hackman is no shrinking violet behind the wheel either. Director Friedkin used him for many of the action scenes to retain as much authenticity as possible. BASED on Robin
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Your Stuff
Write to: Your Stuff, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email streetmachine@wheelsmedia.com.au. Make sure you include your address (not necessarily for publication). Keep it short and sweet! CONGRATULATIONS on 400 issues (SM, Dec ’
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Au-spicious Or Suspicious?
PEOPLE have often wondered what would have happened if Ford had built a two-door coupe to take on the reinvented V2-VZ Holden Monaro in the early 2000s. The Hillier brothers did build three special AU coupes, but there hasn’t been many other attempts
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QUARTER Master
GEOFF Paton’s tyre-frying big-block Torana (SM, Aug-Sep ’85) is the stuff of legend. It was a full street car that ran 9.9@137mph – off-the-charts quick for the mid-80s. Geoff’s wheelstanding, national record-holding Cortina is equally famous; in the
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Tangerine Dream
ONLINE battles between classic car purists and street machiners have raged in recent years, as the values of our favourite chrome-bumper models soar. Melbourne’s Shaun Scerri has tasted life on both sides of this fence with his ’73 HQ GTS Monaro seda
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Colour Us Shocked
WE’VE become used to seeing HQs painted all sorts of colours – from mild to wild – over the years. But the GM-H styling department was responsible for some of the craziest hues that Australia has ever seen – not to mention the names they came up with
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Rokn 71 MEMORY ’LANE
THE BOND between a family and the car that transports them is one that Victorian fruiterer Dom Luppino knows all too well. While he may be best known for his beastly turbo race Mustangs, Dom’s heart is with this stout ZD Fairlane. “My father purchase
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Sweet Dreams
MAYBE it’s something about being away from the big city. Maybe it’s the country-town feel. Maybe it’s just the warm weather and abundance of the sweet stuff in these parts. Whatever it is, Mackay’s Insane Performance Sugar City Powerfest was a laid-b
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Great Northern
WE’RE all in agreeance that building a tough street machine has its challenges – the heartache of parts lost in transit, of late nights tinkering and of missed deadlines. Now, try to imagine how challenging building this stunning HG ute must have bee
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LONG LIVE THE King!
WE FEATURE plenty of cars with crazy colours and more body mods than a piercing specialist’s catalogue, but some like to leave that sort of thing in the hands of the original designers. You could be forgiven for thinking Mat Brown’s XE Falcon ESP is
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Part two Street MACHINE DEFINING Features
ONCE we dusted off the archives and started compiling our list of the best feature yarns to have appeared in Street Machine for last month’s special 400th issue, we quickly realised that we wouldn’t have the room to run all the great stuff we found.
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Glow-up
THE XY Fairmont you see on these pages has been in Paul Brincat’s family since 1973. “Mum and Dad brought me home from the hospital in it,” Paul recalls. “I even learnt to drive in it!” Paul’s dad, Michael, really looked after the car, which included
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Bg Time
WHEN Tim Haddock arrived at Chryslers On The Murray in 2015, he had $2000 in his pocket and an eye for a fresh project. The 49-year-old builder and Mopar addict had recently sold a tidy VC to help fund a raft of house renovations. But with home dutie
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Six Of The Best
202 and the SUs – you know, the usual formula,” he laughs. Nearly 40 years later, karma handed Trevor a bargain when a customer mentioned he had a Torana that he was to have repowered with a V8 but had changed his mind. “It was a lovely old thing – a
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Wild, wild, WILDWOOD
YOU’VE probably heard of The Race Of Gentlemen, aka TROG, where they race hot rods and vintage motorbikes on a beach in New Jersey; where nostalgic attendees dress up in all the retro gear; and where voodoo rock ’n’ roll bands play by bonfires on the
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History In Motion
THERE’S a hell of a story behind the hellishly cool ’33 three-window ‘Omaha Coupe’, which was racing for the first time in 58 years at TROG. Its saviour and custodian, Tom Secora of South Omaha Speed & Fabrication, fell in love with it as a kid and s
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Man With A Scan
MANY of us see building a car as a laborious process of hand-crafting parts and going through seemingly unending rounds of fitment by trial-and-error. However, the reality is that computers have revolutionised how cars can be built, with new technolo
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Blue Blazes
WE’VE given away many cars, engines and even a couple of motorbikes over the 40 years of Street Machine’s existence – not to mention a Space Invaders game and many trips to SM Summernats. Some of the bigger-ticket items get sold straight away by grat
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Old School, New Cool
Got a cool idea for a build that you’d like to see brought to life in Expression Session? Email us at streetmachine@wheelsmedia.com.au with a detailed explanation. THE Beauchamp family are not new to building elite-level early Holdens. You might reme
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Hot Pursuit
WHILE the XB Falcon Interceptor coupe may have been the hero car from the original Mad Max flick, there was another dark-coloured two-door that set the tone for the film long before Max Rockatansky’s iconic ride showed up. The Pursuit Special HQ coup
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In The Build
GOT a sweet ride that’s currently in the build? Send photos of it along with some details to: In The Build, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email inthebuild@wheelsmedia.com.au. Please note: Send us copies of your prints as we are
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Cj Murray-smith
Aged around 21 or younger and have a neat ride? Send some pics and info to: Young Guns, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email us at: readerscars@wheelsmedia.com.au. THERE’S an ever-growing group of young guys and girls that love
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Maz Romandini
Girls — wanna be famous? Send pics, car details and contact details to: Iron Maiden, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166. Or email: streetmachine@wheelsmedia.com.au. MAZ Romandini is entrenched in the Melbourne car scene, not only as a
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Death-defying
FROM the near-2000hp turbo small-block lurking under the bonnet to the incredible attention to detail throughout, Darren and Leah Dubbelman’s LX Torana drag car is one of the toughest and most well-sorted radial rides around. But the couple’s journey
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Dirty Stuff
WHEN I was young and didn’t know much, I went to work in a used-car yard that specialised in selling sports cars. I worked the usual stuff: winding back speedos; fixing cars without spending money; using my smarts on stuff I didn’t know. One car was
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Readers’ Rockets
“I’VE had my Monaro for about eight years. Originally it was used mostly for drag racing, but I’ve since made it more streetable. Powering her is a four-bolt 454 GM Mk IV block, 30thou up. It runs ARP head and main studs, a polished GM steel crank an
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Lol
THREE men die on Christmas morning. They end up in front of the pearly gates and St Peter. St Peter says, “You guys drink, smoke and womanise. You shouldn’t be getting into heaven. However, it’s Christmas and I’m feeling festive. If you can each show
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Sunday Too Far Away
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Blown 510ci Big-block
HANDLING the stresses of running wide open on a pad for a minute straight is no mean feat for an engine, which explains why we’ve seen burnout-car donks morph into wild, purpose-built creations. The tower of power on these pages is a good example. Wh

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