August 2023

Street Machine

Australia’s premier modified car magazine

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G’DAY, and thanks for picking up the August issue of Street Machine. There are some incredible cars in this month’s mag, not the least of which being Adam and Kelly Rogash’s epic new Mk1 Capri, STRIPSHOW (p.26). The twin-turbo big-block monster creat
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EDITOR Andrew Broadley ART DIRECTOR Leah Gionis ADDITIONAL DESIGN Povi Pullinen SUB-EDITOR Brett Collingwood VIDEO & EVENTS PRODUCER Scott Taylor JOURNALISTS Kian Heagney, Jack Houlihan DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Mary Lee SOCIALS Paul Cronin EDITOR-IN-C
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Quey To The Cape
AN UNLIKELY 70s classic recently notched over 11,000km in a pilgrimage to Australia’s northernmost tip and back, raising money and awareness for a great cause along the way. Twenty-seven-year-old Tom Carriera of Wangaratta, Victoria drove his HQ Hold
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On The Wagon
EVERYONE loves a good sleeper, and for our latest Carnage project, Scotty Taylor has decided to create a super-cool example of the concept by throwing a 1UZ Toyota V8 into a VR Commodore-based Toyota Lexcen wagon. The 1UZ will be helped along by an a
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BRYAN & TRACEY LITTLE
WHEN we heard there was some unique metal rolling around this year’s Cooly Rocks On festival (see p.42 for full feature), we set out on a mission to spot Bryan and Tracey Little’s split-window Kombi and Ford Sunliner convertible amongst the thousands
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> HOT GOSSIP
THIS year’s Adelaide Auto Expo (17-18 November) is set to bring some of the most iconic street machines ever built under one roof. We’re talking about some real heavy-hitters, including Colin Townsend’s SMOTY-winning FJ, Phil Rillotta’s Raging Bull L
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AUSTRALIAN CUSTOM FORDS & CHRYSLERS
WHILE Holden was the maker of choice for many budding Australian customisers of the 1960s and early 70s, Ford and Chrysler products from the preceding decades were also popular and cheaply available once they had a few years under their belts. A numb
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Your Stuff
Write to: Your Stuff, Street Machine, Unit 9/3-5 Gilda Court, Mulgrave, Vic 3170, or email streetmachine@wheelsmedia.com.au. Make sure you include your address (not necessarily for publication). Keep it short and sweet! HI BROADS, I would like to tha
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Grease 1978
THE 1978 flick Grease has become such a cultural touchstone over the past 45 years that reviewing it in 2023 seems a little redundant. That said, modern-day critics haven’t been too kind to the film in recent years, with many declaring it all kinds o
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Strip tease
AS THE proprietor of MPW Performance, Adam Rogash is not new to building show-quality, big-power cars to tight deadlines, but his new street-and-strip Capri is next level. It also represents a change of tack from Adam’s previous projects, as he elect
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Cranky As
WE’VE all dreamed of finding that perfect one-owner project car, and Sydney’s Ray Elia wound up with one of these elusive gems – not through years of hunting, but straight from his Chrysler-mad old man, John! “My dad bought it new; I drove it when I
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WIN DAD this GEAR WRENCH
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Holding A Grudge
SOMETIMES, race events are exactly as advertised on the packaging, and Grudge Kings tells you everything you need to know right there in the name. The first Grudge Kings event, way back in 2016, aimed to bring the US style of grudge racing to Austral
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Grey’s Anatomy
JASON De Silveira purchased this 1970 Chevy C10 way back in 1996, not long after he began an apprenticeship as a mechanical fitter. “I bought it in bits, thinking I knew what I was doing,” he recalls. “The old chestnut – it looked like it was nearly
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Premier LEAGUE
PATRICK Langdon has refined his HQ Premier from a dead stock nanna-mobile to the 1000hp, 632ci monster you see here. The car’s vintage pro street vibes are no accident, as Patrick’s custodianship of the more-door Quey goes back nearly 40 years to the
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Rockin’ & Rollin’
HIPS were swinging and engines were revving as a record breaking number of petrolheads rolled into Coolangatta on the Gold Coast to celebrate all things 50s, 60s and 70s at the 2023 Cooly Rocks On festival. Vintage fashion, rock music and car culture
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FEROCIOUS Feline
WHILE most of the readers of these pages would be better versed in the history of straight-line racing than the sideways malarkey, those who were at the genesis of drifting in Australia would probably remember the name Catherine Coleiro, better known
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Dreamweaver
WHEN drag racing legend Ben Gatt was told his family’s 1968 XT Fairmont was available for sale, he had to have it. The old Ford held too many memories, and he knew exactly what his dad, Paolo (Paul), had desperately wanted to do with the car back in
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New-age Dinosaurs
LAUNCHED with the seventhgeneration Corvette in January 2013, the new Gen V V8 ushered in a new era of tech for GM’s venerable smallblock. The new LT1 may have had the same capacity, bore/stroke, six-bolt mains, allaluminium 90-degree construction, 4
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Believe the HYPE
AT THE risk of it sounding a bit like a cheesy Dom Toretto line from a Fast & Furious film, Steven Thrift’s EH Holden is all about family. It was built in Steve’s shed with his dad Geoff front and centre, to be enjoyed by Steve, his ever-supportive w
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Golden Palomino
JANET Hough and Victor Reilly own and run Bucket Panels in Moorabbin, and have been together for over 43 years. Throughout their journey, Janet and Victor have remained diehard hot-car fans. They also had a lot of fun racing Honda Odysseys for many y
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In The Build
“HERE is my current little project, a 1972 Holden LJ Torana I’ve dubbed PRHBTD. It started life as a standard SL sedan when I got it back in 2017, and has undergone some major surgery since then. In the rear, I had the factory fuel tank removed and a
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Silly Season
THE Honda K24 is the new hot ticket to major horsepower and reliability on the cheap, as you can pluck ’em straight from grandpa’s junker, throw some basic forged goodies in and boost them to the moon to enter the four-digit power club. That explains
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Zsa Zsa Biacsi
ZSA Zsa Biacsi has been a keen revhead since she was a young lass, and is a willing wrench-turner on her stable of rides. There’s too many of them to feature here, so we focused on the hot rod she can be found piloting most weekends at car events acr
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Dirty Stuff
OF ALL the different makes and models of carburettors I have worked on – from the really crude all-brass veteran car stuff, through SUs and Rochesters, to Zeniths and Holleys – my-all time favourites would have to be the Italian Webers. Not that they
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Cross Pollination
THE BARRA versus LS rivalry has been a mainstay of Australia’s modified car scene for close to two decades, but in the Japanese tuner scene, a much longer battle has been raging, with Nissan’s RB and the Toyota JZ vying for force-fed straight-six sup
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Old Lion, New Tricks
THE WEPN number plate is spot-on; Lee Murray’s LJ Torana is one bad-arse ride. We featured it in Street Machine in October 2015, with its Holden V8 mill sporting an F1 ProCharger and blow-through carby set-up. Since then, Lee has been busy revamping
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Readers Rockets
“HERE’S possibly Australia’s cleanest VX SS! Before builder’s fever hit the car, it was a standard, plain, untouched one-owner vehicle with under 80,000km on the clock. It wasn’t long before me pouring money into it became a familiar sensation. It’s
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In Gear
WHETHER you’re at the drags or deep in the scrub in a 4x4, the ability to adjust tyre pressures can make all the difference. Lugging around big compressors is a pain in the balls, so Ryobi has come up with the 18V ONE+ Digital Pressure Inflator as a
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Lol
A BARTENDER asks the customer sitting at the bar, “What’ll you have?” “A scotch, please,” the man replies. The bartender hands him the drink and says, “That’ll be 10 dollars.” “What are you talking about?” the man says. “I don’t owe you anything for
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Sunday Too Far Away
SEND your photos of fun with cars to: Sunday Too Far Away, Street Machine, Unit 9/3-5 Gilda Court, Mulgrave, Vic 3170, or email high-resolution images (1mb+) to: sundaytoofaraway@wheelsmedia.com.au. Please send copies of prints as we are unable to re
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411ci Holden V8
GATHER ’round, Holden V8 fans; this one’s a doozy. Ever encountered a 900+hp all-motor plastic before? Ange at Molinari Race Engines has screwed together this absolute screamer for Domenic D’Agostino’s street-and-strip LX Torana hatch, aided and abet

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