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Street Machine Magazine
RAW ANIMAL
THE BEAST LURKING WITHIN PETER TSEKENIS’S EIGHT-SECOND, STREET-DRIVEN XY IS A NATURALLY ASPIRATED SMALL-BLOCK MAKING OVER 1000HP
7 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
PAS DASKALAKIS LOVES FALCON COUPES, BUT HE WANTED HIS LATEST TO BE ABSOLUTELY INSANE – PURISTS BE DAMNED
6 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
QUICK TEMPER
MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER BUYING IT, DAVE BARNARD HAS FINALLY PIECED TOGETHER THE QUICK-AND-ANGRY MONARO HE ALWAYS WANTED
5 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
INFINITY AND BEYOND
IN THE 1990S, CARMINE CAROFANO’S SLICK HQ STATESMAN WAS A WEAPONS-GRADE TROPHY MAGNET
3 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
KINGDOM COME
GRUDGE KINGS BROKE THE COVID BLUES WITH ITS FIRST SYDNEY SHOWDOWN SINCE SHUTDOWN
4 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
HOMEBREWED
JUSTIN SCHMIDT BEGAN TINKERING WITH VLs AS A BROKE TEENAGER, AND IT’S PAID OFF BIG-TIME IN THE FORM OF THIS HOME-BUILT EIGHT-SECOND STREETER
5 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
CATCH of the DAY
WITH SOME FAMILY ASSISTANCE, MATT MITCHELL & KATIE BOURKE CREATED THE HAND-CONTROLLED BARRACUDA OF THEIR DREAMS
4 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
GREEN WITH Envy
THAT’S THE REACTION DARREN YOUNG’S NEAT-AS-A-PIN, 355 V8-POWERED HD HOLDEN TENDS TO INSPIRE
5 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
BUMP & GRIND
OUR OWN IAIN KELLY REMAGINES A BUMPSIDE F100 AS A PRO TOURER, AND AIDAN BRINGS THE IDEA TO LIFE
3 min |
February 2022
Street Machine Magazine
ANGER MANAGEMENT
THIS STUNNING HZ PREM TOOK A TOP 60 SPOT AT SUMMERNATS 33, BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP OWNER DAVE CUELL PULLING IT APART AGAIN
5 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
2022 SURVIVAL GUIDE
AFTER a one-year hiatus, the biggest horsepower party of the year is finally set to return to Canberra when Street Machine Summernats 34 rolls into Exhibition Park, 6-9 January. The 2022 ’Nats promises to be a cracker!
9 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
METAL MILITIA
AS NEW BILLET BLOCKS FOR THE HOLDEN V8, BARRA SIX AND CLEVELAND V8 HIT THE MARKET, WE TAKE A DIVE INTO WHAT MAKES THEM SPECIAL
7 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
The BRIGHT SIDE
THE BELOVED BRIGHT ROD RUN’S 2021 CANCELLATION DIDN’T STOP DETERMINED PILGRIMS FROM MOUNTING THEIR OWN UNOFFICIAL VERSION
2 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
DEJA VROOM!
SOUTH AUSTRALIA SHOWED ITS MUSCLE AT THE SECOND ADELAIDE AUTO EXPO IN A CALENDAR YEAR
3 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
DAD'S ARMY
LAKESIDE PARK’S ALL AUSSIE FATHER’S DAY BASH SAWDADS AND THEIR FAMILIES CELEBRATE ALON GSIDE A BATTALION OF HOMEGROWN CLASSICS
3 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
10 OF THE BEST
AS STREET MACHINE SUMMERNATS 34 APPROACHES, LET’S LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST INCREDIBLE 10 YEARS OF THE WORLD’S BEST CAR FESTIVAL
4 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
DREAM CATCHER
LOUIS YOUNIS COULDN’T RESIST THE CHANCE TO TICK A CHILDHOOD DREAM CAR OFF HIS BUCKET LIST
5 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
FINE LIME
JAMIE SKEWS RESCUED THIS XA HARDTOP FROM A SLOW DEATH VIA A 640HP CLEVO HEART TRANSPLANT, A THIRD PEDAL AND THE BRIGHTEST GREEN HUMANITY HAS EVER SEEN
5 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
Market FORCES
KILLED BY COVID LAST YEAR, THE 2021 SEMA SHOW SAW EXHIBITORS AND BUYERS ALIKE BUZZING TO BE BACK AT THE LARGEST AFTERMARKET AUTOMOTIVE TRADE EVENT ON EARTH
1 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
Mr Summernats
AS WE REV UP FOR THE RETURN OF STREET MACHINE SUMMERNATS, WE PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MAN WHO MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE
10 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
REVOLUTIONARY RETURN
AFTER 13 YEARS IN HIBERNATION, THE 2ENIL8 XW FALCON IS BACK, FASTER AND WAAAY BETTER THAN EVER
9 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
PUMP ACTION
WITH A 978HP BLOWN SMALL-BLOCK AND THE TOUGHEST STANCE THIS SIDE OF A RUGBY FRONT ROW, THIS HK PREMIER IS PRIMED FOR STREET ACTION
6 min |
January 2022
Street Machine Magazine
DEATH-DEFYING
DARREN AND LEAH DUBBELMAN TURN TRIBULATION INTO TRIUMPH WITH THEIR 2000HP RADIAL TORANA
5 min |
Yearbook 2021
Street Machine Magazine
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.
3 min |
Yearbook 2021
Street Machine Magazine
MAZ ROMANDINI
WHEELERS HILL, VIC
2 min |
Yearbook 2021
Street Machine Magazine
BLUE BLAZES
OUR GRUNT HUNT GIVEAWAY BLUE 202 PROUDLY SERVED IN JEFF FOLEY’S UC TORANA FOR 20 YEARS
4 min |
Yearbook 2021
Street Machine Magazine
BIG TIME
TIM HADDOCK’S VJ UTE MAY LOOK UNASSUMING, BUT THERE’S SOME SERIOUS GEAR LURKING BENEATH ITS DIE-STRAIGHT PANELS, INCLUDING A TORQUEY CHRYSLER BIG-BLOCK
7 min |
Yearbook 2021
Street Machine Magazine
BLOWN 510CI BIG-BLOCK
BG ENGINES, NORTH RICHMOND, NSW
2 min |
Yearbook 2021
Street Machine Magazine
GLOW-UP
PAUL BRINCAT GIVES A FAMILY-HEIRLOOM XY FAIRMONT A 500HP BIRTHDAY
6 min |
Yearbook 2021
Street Machine Magazine
MAN WITH A SCAN
IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE SCIENCE FICTION, BUT 3D SCANNING CAN TAKE THE GUESSWORK OUT OF BUILDING YOUR PROJECT CAR
7 min |