February 2024

Street Machine

Australia’s premier modified car magazine

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Broadcast
MY OLD man has never been a madkeen street machiner, but he’s always been incredibly supportive of my interests. So, when I was a kid and it became evident that I cared about little else other than tough cars, he did what any good dad would do and ca
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Party On
EACH year on the first evening of Summernats, the Street Machine team, our partners and some of the country’s top car builders gather to celebrate the crowning of the Milwaukee Street Machine of the Year. This year’s award went to Gary and Jake Myers
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Mark Thornton
MARK Thornton’s HDT-inspired VK Calais is one clean-looking machine, and it’s got over 1100rwhp on tap! The car certainly caught our eye at Street Machine Summernats 36, so we had to bail Mark up for chat to find out what’s under the bonnet. That’s a
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
AS FAR as movie car replicas go, some are tougher to source and build than others. You can make Pursuit Specials or General Lees all day if money’s no issue, but ’59 Cadillac-based Miller-Meteor hightop ambulances like Nathan Clark’s are a painfully
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Your Stuff
EMAIL your missives to gday@streetmachine.com.au. Keep it short and sweet! HI ANDREW, I know you are interested in the XA hardtop that featured in the movie Two Hands (SM, Dec ’04 and streetmachine.com.au), and its history and provenance. I thought y
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Watch Out, We’re Mad 1974
A staple of 1980s post-Hey Hey It’s Saturday night-time TV movies, comic duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer starred in 18 films together, the most popular of which were the Trinity series of ‘spaghetti’ Westerns – so named due to them being filmed in I
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Rotary Connection
SICK of LS swaps? So is Jay Duca, which is why he stuffed an angry four-rotor Mazda mill into his slammed VL Commodore! Jay carried out the swap in just five weeks to get it to Street Machine Summernats 36, and once he did, punters both at the event
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Cheque Mate
EVERYONE’S got their habits, good and bad. Rob De Sciscio from South Australia has a very good one – collecting classic cars around Christmas time! “During every Christmas break, I have a habit of looking for project cars,” says Rob, who has scooped
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EDITOR Andrew Broadley ART DIRECTOR Leah Gionis ADDITIONAL DESIGN Povi Pullinen SUB-EDITORS Brett Collingwood, Matt Reekie VIDEO & EVENTS PRODUCER Scott Taylor JOURNALIST Kian Heagney DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Mary Lee SOCIALS Paul Cronin COVER PHOTO C
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Diamond Tough
IT’S not uncommon these days to see a V8 and twin turbos in a low-eight-second streeter, but the way Theo Diamond’s 1972 VH Valiant Charger takes on that power is anything but normal. You see, the 388ci Mopar R3 mill in the engine bay uses a blow-thr
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The Greatest Show On Earth
IT’S long been touted as Australia’s biggest horsepower party, but the 36th running of Street Machine Summernats was the biggest of them all. Gates were thrown open to entrant campers on Wednesday for the first time ever, allowing them to settle in a
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Breaking Cover
ONE of the undoubted highlights each year at Street Machine Summernats is the Great Meguiar’s Uncover, where a slew of brand new, never-before-seen automotive masterworks are unveiled to the public for the first time. Thursday evening at ’Nats 36 saw
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Dodge Ball
THE Grand Champion award at Street Machine Summernats is one of the most coveted gongs in our scene, and it takes a well-built, well-rounded and well-driven car to win it. There are four key components to the competition, being Judging, People’s Choi
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Perfect 10
IT WAS a banner year in the Elite Hall at Street Machine Summernats 36, with an incredible array of models and build styles on show. Everything from tough Aussie classics to hot rods to lesser-spotted Japanese and British rides sat gleaming in the ha
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Mack Daddy
The record book for the Haltech Horsepower Heroes dyno comp was dramatically rewritten during Saturday qualifying at Street Machine Summernats 36, with the Maatouks Racing MAKDDY VL Commodore resetting the overall record with an incredible 2504hp run
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Burning Desires
IF YOU were at Street Machine Summernats 36 and happened to wonder how our mates in NZ do things, you were in luck. Operating from the paddock side of the burnout pad were four epic skid cars fresh from a journey across the Tasman. Premier Events coo
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Master Blaster
There was plenty of celebration happening around EPIC on day three of Street Machine Summernats 36, but few would have partied harder than Andrew ‘LYNCHY’ Lynch, who was crowned Burnout Master for the first time after years of skidding his infamous C
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Champion Effort
THE fourth and final day of Street Machine Summernats 36 climaxed with 40 Burnout Championship contenders taking turns to violate the skid pad in a last-chance effort to win the Championship crown. It had already been an eventful competition up to th
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G-force
CERTAIN cars speak to us, and sometimes there’s little rhyme or reason as to why. For Sydney’s Shane Serret, it was Brett ‘Woodsy’ Woods’s blown-and-injected big-block HG wagon race car that made him frothier than a two-dollar cappuccino. And now he
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Modern Love
ADELAIDE’S Mike Bowden had been thinking about sticking a late-model EFI mill into an older car for nigh on 30 years, and he’s finally done so with his awesome Barra-powered XF Falcon. Why did it take him so long? Quite simply, he felt he didn’t have
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Borderline RAGE
IN OCTOBER last year, Border Battle returned to Albury-Wodonga for the third time since its inception in 2019, and the warring parties from New South Wales and Victoria brought their A games. This State of Origin-style car show has come along in leap
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Home Fried
LANGUISHING in a shed for 20 years had done this XR Falcon no favours, but its young custodian Bryce McCabe was more than up to the task of giving it a second life. It just took him five years and a ridiculous amount of hard yakka to get it together.
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Streets Ahead
SUMMERNATS is hands-down the biggest car show in the country, and it’s daylight to second. An enormous volume of trophies and accolades are bestowed each year upon all different types of cars, from Tuff Street monsters to stunning Elite showpieces, t
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Cannon fodder
DEATH Race!” shouted the Melbourne tabloid Truth in 1984. Cannonball Run fever had landed in Australia, with two cross-continent sprints to be held within a month of each other. While October 1984’s Paradise to Perth was a humble three-car gig, the A
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Back To The Future
THE publication you’re currently reading really hit its stride in the mid-to-late 80s. Street Machine mags back then were packed with cars that are still beloved and influential today, and the covers are seared into the brains of just about every nos
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Game On
WITH over 100 sets of tyres destroyed to date, the 9000rpm small-block Mopar in Chris Orchard’s VH Commodore, THE GAME, seems the ultimate street and burnout combination – and Chris has never touched the motor. After hearing a lot about these R5P7 NA
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Jack Mill
TWENTY-two-year-old Jack Mill is a Summernats regular and former Young Gun with his rad, low-buck VS ute (SM, Jun ’22), but this year he upped the ante with another LS swap into a very different machine. This angry, yet tidy and well-disguised Suzuki
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Vantastic
EVERYONE has a vision for their car before they commence a build, and Neville Shears’s idea for his XD was about as specific as you can get. “I wanted to build something to take me back to the 80s, cruising down Northbourne Avenue at Summernats,” he
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In The Build
“THIS HQ Holden started life as a genuine GTS sedan in the rare hue of Gunmetal Metallic with Lone O’Ranger stripes. Owner Mick isn’t good at keeping anything original, so he quickly got into the build by getting the car sandblasted, and then dropped
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In Gear
THE new Professional Series of tool chests and roller cabinets from Hare & Forbes Machineryhouse offers premium workshop tool storage solutions at a reasonable price. These key-lockable chests and cabinets come in a variety of sizes, from a 56-inch,
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Readers Rockets
“I WAS 18 back in 1991 when I bought my 1971 VG hardtop off the original owner for $2300. By the late 90s, it was running a high 13-second Hemi 265 along with 1968 Dodge Dart stripes and US Charger hubcaps, whitewalls and a custom full grille. It sta
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Lol
A WOMAN went to her doctor for a follow-up visit after the doctor had prescribed testosterone for her. She was a little worried about some of the side effects she was experiencing. “Doctor, the hormones you’ve been giving me have really helped, but I
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Sunday Too Far Away
EMAIL your high-resolution images (1MB+) of fun with cars to sundaytoofaraway@streetmachine.com.au. ■
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BMW M20b25 Six
A SCREAMING straight-six with triple carbs isn’t an uncommon sight in the pages of this fine magazine, but you probably haven’t seen one quite like this before. Despite the angled block, this isn’t a Chrysler slant, and nor is it from Ford or GM. Nop

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