Automotive
Street Machine Australia
STRONG SUIT
TARONE PALMER'S LONG-TIME FASCINATION WITH XP COUPES RESULTED IN A 580HP STREET BRAWLER DRESSED TO THE NINES
4 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
TWO TO TANGO
HAVING BUILT ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S BEST-REMEMBERED EH HOLDENS IN THE 70s, BOB GRAMBAU HAS BURST BACK ONTO THE SCENE WITH A MOUTHWATERING '34 FORD COUPE
5 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
DANIEL DIMCEVSKI
ROCKBANK, VICTORIA
2 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
DEUCE OF SPADES 2011
DO YOU BELIEVE IN SECOND CHANCES?
2 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
HOT TO TROT
FROM his younger years spent learning car control in the forest or laying copious amounts of rubber, to owning a speed shop and shooting the cover for one of Street Machine's highest-selling issues, photographer and writer Keith Trotter has been connected to some of the most pivotal moments of our glorious car culture.
5 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
COR BLIMEY!
THE NEW CORVETTE C8 ZR1X COMBINES E-RAY HYBRID POWER WITH THE C8 ZR1'S BEASTLY V8 FOR A COMBINED 1250HP!
2 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
SPITING IMAGE
IMMACULATELY FINISHED BY IMAGE VEHICLE MANUFACTURING, THIS BLOWN, 950HP '39 FORD PICK-UP WAS BUILT TO SHRED
3 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ONE FAMILY'S TREASURED HEIRLOOM FOR ALMOST 60 YEARS, THIS VC VALIANT IS FINALLY BACK ON THE STREETS AFTER A MULTI-DECADE SLUMBER
4 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
KING SALMON
One of the most talked-about cars from this year’s Meguiar's MotorEx - both at the event and online afterwards - was Mitchel Hawkins's mould-busting VR ClubSport tribute.
4 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
YOUTH GROUP
HARE & FORBES MACHINERYHOUSE YOUNG STREET MACHINE OF THE YEAR IS HERE, CELEBRATING AUSSIE CAR BUILDERS AGED 24 AND YOUNGER
2 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
BUSHLAND BRAWLERS
WILBY PARK RACEWAY IN RURAL VICTORIA PLAYED HOST TO THE INAUGURAL WAR IN THE STICKS, ONE OF THE WILDEST NO-PREP DRAG EVENTS WE'VE EVER SEEN
4 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
BEAR METAL
BIG CASH WAS UP FOR GRABS IN THE SWELTERING HEAT AT RADIAL BEAR SLAYER IN MONROE, LOUISIANA
4 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
BACK TO BASICS
GRANT PEGLER'S LX SS TORANA HATCH USES AN UNOPENED LS AND A BREATH OF BOOST TO RUN NINES AT DRAG CHALLENGE
3 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
ART IN MOTION
THE MUSEUM OF VEHICLE EVOLUTION WILL HOST SOME STREET MACHINING LEGENDS AS PART OF ITS ART IN MOTION EXHIBITION THIS SPRING
2 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
DIRTY STUFF
THERE was a bloke living in England who owned a crashed E-Type Jaguar.
2 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
Panel Show
A QUARTER-CENTURY AGO, MICK COUGHLAN'S DAD ADVISED HIM AGAINST BUYING THIS HG PANEL VAN. THESE DAYS, MICK CATCHES HIM SHOWING IT OFF TO HIS MATES!
4 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
BEETLE MANIA
ROB DOWNING TAKES AN UNASSUMING VW BUG AND GIVES IT A NEW IDENTITY AS A PUMPED-UP, TURBOCHARGED TOUGHIE
5 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
SETH FUHRMEISTER
FEW would have expected a 19-year-old from a tiny town in Victoria to roll into last year's Street Machine Summernats with one of the coolest and most surprising Toranas at the event, but Nintingbool panel beater Seth Fuhrmeister clearly pays little mind to others' expectations.
2 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
MICHELLE JELLICOE
NO MOTORSPORT event has had as profound an influence on Australia's automotive culture as the Bathurst 1000.
2 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
FANGING FLICK
THEY'VE BEEN TAKEN FOR A RIDE BY A USED CAR DEALER. NOW THEY'RE TAKING HIM FOR A RIDE!
2 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
ELTON WALKER 1957 CHEVROLET WAGON
\"MY 1957 Chevy has been transformed from a Sedan Delivery into a four-seater two-door wagon over a period of 14 years.
1 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
FULL HOUSE!
MIC HOUSE COMBINED MODERN TECH WITH OLD-SCHOOL STREET MACHINING VALUES TO TAKE HIS FRESHLY BUILT HD WAGON ONTO THE 235 BLOWN PODIUM AT DRAG CHALLENGE 2024
3 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
CUDA GRACE
PACKING 611CI OF BONE-RATTLING, NITROUS-SNORTING HEMI, THIS EYE-POPPING BARRACUDA IS ONE BAD FISH
6 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
Run To PARADISE
THE FOURTH ANNUAL OXYTECH PUB RUN WAS CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
4 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
JUNKYARD DOG
LUKE KESTLE'S RATTY HT MONARO HAS BEEN GETTING PLENTY OF SMILES PER MILE STATESIDE
4 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
DIRTY STUFF
FOLKS, there is a way to solder aluminium. It was long thought to be impossible due to the instant oxidisation that this metal attracts; trying to solder it using conventional flux-based methods would simply see the lead solder dribble off and fall on the floor. But the method I use works, is ridiculously simple, and is permanent.
3 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
NICK EDEN HG MONARO GTS
“THE ‘Monarat’ is a 1971 HG Monaro GTS that I got from a local bloke in 2011.
1 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
ROD DUFF HG KINGSWOOD
“I BOUGHT my HG Kingswood around 27 years ago from a mate, who'd put in a worked 283 Chev V8.
1 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
WILY COYOTE
A BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED XT UTE WITH THE GRUNTY HEART OF A MODERN MUSTANG – THAT'S BRUCE STEPHENS'S IDEA OF A PERFECT WEEKEND CRUISER
3 min |
July 2025
Street Machine Australia
WARR HAMMER
SHIELDS GARAGE FINISHES OFF THE LATE NIGEL WARR'S DREAM HQ BUILD AS A LOVING TRIBUTE FROM HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND THEY DIDN'T FORGET THE GRUNT
5 min |