Street Machine

WITH three of the past four Milwaukee Street Machine of the Year winners being based in NSW, I’ve been fortunate enough to carry out the lion’s share of surprise SMOTY presentations in recent years. Seeing the look on a SMOTY winner’s face when you a

WITH the announcement that Ford plans for its Mustang to remain piston-powered even beyond the life of the upcoming, seventh-generation S650, Blue Oval fans have plenty of reasons to be excited for the future of the iconic pony car. This includes a h

THE Albury Wodonga & Districts Car Club (AWDCC) has announced it has taken over the lease to Victoria’s Wilby Park Raceway. Situated just south of Yarrawonga in northern Victoria, Wilby Park is known for its grassroots motorsport alongside popular ev

WHEN he’s not touring around the world and recording as a bloody talented rockabilly muso, you’ll find Scotty Baker tinkering with an ever-changing fleet of old-school metal in country Victoria. Scotty cruised almost 4500km to this year’s Red CentreN

An accomplished recording artist prior to his film career, Jerry Reed (left) sang the title song. He would later achieve great success with his tune East Bound and Down for Smokey and The Bandit. VEHICLES: 1975 Plymouth Gran Fury, 1975 Lincoln Contin

THIS year’s Milwaukee Street Machine of the Year field was one of the toughest in recent memory. We’re talking about four cars from the Street Machine Summernats Elite Top 10 and two from the Top 20, just for starters! Among the elite crew were some

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RAY Elia’s name may well be familiar to Street Machine readers, as his white VK Calais, KNGHDT, was featured alongside his brother Tony’s blue VK in Street Machine Commodores in 2018. But as beautiful and tough as that blown 355ci Calais was, Ray’s l

A PORSCHE winning Top Street Machine Overall at Meguiar’s MotorEx? Say it ain’t so! Yet that’s exactly what this incredibly well built and immaculately detailed 1978 911 SC managed at the 2022 event. And not only that, it also bagged three gold medal

AUSTRALIA’S best track-based car festivals are terrific fun. They’re fast, loud and noisy, and usually attract machines with bulk grunt and big budgets for tyres and tech. Think Powercruise for folks like us, or World Time Attack for the other guys.

IN THE modified car game, most things have been done before and done well, so it can be challenging to create something truly unique. Often, if you set out to be different for different’s sake, the end result isn’t favourable. But Matt Hourigan’s ’71

DARWIN’S Hidden Valley Raceway may host a yearly Supercars round, but if you’re keen to see massive horsepower driven in anger in the Top End, Gazzanats is really the one to mark on your calendar. Organised by the burnout-mad Myers family, this year’

LOOKING at Adrian Haynes’s elite-level, LS3-powered, six-speed LX Torana hatch, you’d never believe it came into his life as an utter basket case. Canberra-based Adrian and his dad, Robert ‘Bluey’ Haynes, picked up the hatch 10 years ago from an owne

IN STREET machining, there are pretty much two types of people: those who love the challenge of building a car but sell it as soon as it’s done, and those who are long-termers, having owned the same car for decades. Brad McGill is definitely the firs

AS YOU can imagine, it was pretty hard to miss Ian Wood’s bright orange EH panel van in the unveiling hall at Meguiar’s MotorEx earlier this year. At first glance, that eye-popping colour might seem like the van’s main party piece, but it’s what lies

LET’S address the elephant in the room first. Yes, this EA Falcon has four alloy wheels wearing eight individual tyres. To learn why, read on, because as weird as that is, there’s so much more to this strangely alluring beast. If you’ve never heard o

WE ALL love a sleeper, but in the history of Australian street machining, one sleeper stands above them all: Shane Bridge’s Mk1 Cortina (SM, Apr/May ’90). We thought it was time to chat with the creator of this little weapon to see how this all unfol

BUILDING an engine for your ride isn’t exactly cheap or easy right now thanks to supply chain issues, so if you’re after a quick and simple solution, a brand-spanking-new crate motor could well be the ticket. After all, we live in a time where manufa

1957 CHEVROLET “AS A 17-year-old back in 1987, I was at a house buying Valiant parts from a wrecked RT Charger. Suddenly, I was overcome by the sound of the Running on Empty ’57 Chev coming down the driveway, rattling the windows. At the time I was s

SO AUSTRALIA is committed to a 43 per cent reduction in our emissions by 2030. Okay, and how are we going to achieve this? By shutting down our evil fossil fuel-burning power stations? Um, problem with that is, there ain’t nowhere near enough generat

IT’S a dream of many people to head to the United States – the fatherland of all things cool with cars – to compete in one of the many drag-and-drive events on offer throughout the year. I’ve been lucky enough to have lived that dream, having jumped

SHENAYE Blake was only a young lass when she first spotted a Torana in the wild. It was the proverbial love at first sight, and that natural affinity for these smaller-bodied Holdens has remained with her ever since. Happily, Shenaye’s dream of Torry

A SUREFIRE way to bring the driving dynamics of your chrome-bumpered Holden into the 21st century is with some fresh suspension, which is why Castlemaine Rod Shop offers complete coil-over conversions for early Holdens. These kits will suit any HK-HT

“THIS 1969 XW GT replica was my dad’s car for about 22 years, up until January 2020, when I purchased it off him. It’s pretty sentimental to me, as I used to get dropped off to school, soccer and work in it, and do all the swap meets in the car. It s

A WOMAN is sick of the fact that all the men she dates turn out to be losers. So she puts an ad on a dating website, simply saying, “I want a man who will never beat me, never run away from me, and is good in bed.” A few days later, the woman hears t

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WHAT Ford did in the late 1960s with its original GT40 Le Mans racers will forever be ingrained in history. These GT40s chalked up four Le Mans wins on the trot (1966-1969), and in the process gave a good nose realignment to a certain snooty Italian