Automotive
Street Machine Australia
PONY EXPRESS
MARION BRESKI'S BLOWN AND INJECTED, PROFLOMUSTANG IS AS SHARP AS THEY COME, AND THERE'S PLENTY OF GO TO MATCH THE SHOW
3 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
KING HIT
A CLASSIC DATSUN BODY, S15 FRONT END AND A SCREAMING BLOWN LS COMBINE TO CREATE A NEXT-LEVEL SKID MACHINE
4 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
BUILT TO LAST
IT SEEMS EVERYONE'S BUILDING A TURBOCHARGED LS COMBO THESE DAYS - BECAUSE IT WORKS. HERE'S HOW TO DO IT PROPERLY, ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BIZ
4 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
ARMS RACE
MARIO BUSLJETA'S MONARO IS A SIX-SECOND-CAPABLE NUCLEAR WARHEAD WITH A BIG-BLOCK UP FRONT, TWIN TURBOS OUT BACK, AND CLOSE TO 3000HP ON TAP
3 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
BACK TO YOUR ROOTS
TIM LAIDLER'S TWIN-CARB, HOLDEN V8-POWERED CALAIS WAS ONE OF JUST TWO ROOTS-BLOWN MACHINES TO TAKE ON DRAG CHALLENGE 2024
3 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
WILL TO LIVE
PETER DENING'S EXQUISITELY CRAFTED WILLYS BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 2000, SCOOPED UP A STACK OF AWARDS, THEN SEEMINGLY VANISHED. WE CHAT TO PETE AND THE CAR'S TWO SUBSEQUENT OWNERS TO GET THE FULL STORY
5 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
THE BIG SHOW
STREET MACHINE SUMMERNATS 37 WAS A RECORDBUSTER THAT HERALDED A VIBRANT NEW ERA FOR AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE FOUR-DAY FESTIVAL
4 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
FLY ME TO THE MOON
SIMON MAJOR WINGS HIS WAY TO THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN FOR A BUCKET-LIST EXPERIENCE AT THE 2024 MOONEYES HOT ROD CUSTOM SHOW IN YOKOHAMA
5 min |
February 2025
Street Machine Australia
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
ARBY’S EFFORTS TO IMPROVE HIS VG VALIANT’S 60-FOOT TIMES YIELD PROMISING RESULTS IN THE RUN-UP TO STREET MACHINE DRAG CHALLENGE
4 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
ANIKA HODGES
THE CAR DROVE INTO OUR SHED AS A CREAM 202CI VC AND DROVE OUT AS A SILVER CAR WITH A 355 V8
2 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
STAGE FRIGHT
IT TOOK OWEN SCOTT MORE THAN 20 YEARS TO BUILD A TROPHY-WINING, 600HP EH HOLDEN UTE THAT WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME
3 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
THE Ummmal SUSPECT
FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT MINI-TRUCKS. THIS SUMMERNATS TOP 60 HILUX IS A PROPER STREET MACHINE
4 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
FULLY UTILISED
HARDWOOD ROD & CUSTOM TURNS DARREN ISON'S HAND-ME-DOWN HT INTO A SMOOTH OPERATOR
4 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
ARBY’S EFFORTS TO IMPROVE HIS VG VALIANT’S 60-FOOT TIMES YIELD PROMISING RESULTS IN THE RUN-UP TO STREET MACHINE DRAG CHALLENGE
4 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
PEOPLE POWER
WE TAKE A LOOK BACK AT 36 YEARS OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS - AND MOST DEMOCRATICALLY AWARDED - HONOUR IN OUR SPORT: STREET MACHINE OF THE YEAR
3 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
OUT-AND-OUT MAYHEM
STREET MACHINE DRAG CHALLENGE IS ALREADY A ROLLICKING GOOD TIME, BUT WHAT CAR EVENT CAN'T BE MADE EVEN BETTER BY ADDING A BURNOUT COMP? INTRODUCING OUR INAUGURAL RODS OUT!
3 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
BAD TO THE BONE
THANKS TO HIS SON, ANDY, THE LATE MARIO COLALILLO’S 39 PLYMOUTH COUPE IS BACK ON THE ROAD AND STILL ONE OF THE BADDEST HOT RODS IN THE COUNTRY
5 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
THE CHALLENGE IS REAL
FROM TRACK DRAMAS TO SOARING TEMPERATURES, DRAG CHALLENGE 2024 THREW US SOME OF ITS TOUGHEST TESTS YET, BUT IT ALSO BROUGHT SOME OF THE QUICKEST TIMES THE EVENT HAS EVER SEEN
10+ min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
FIGHTER JET
DRAGOS BJELOGRLIC REASONED THAT SHOEHORNING AN ENGINE FROM A SIX-SECOND RADIAL CAR INTO HIS GENUINE XE FAIRMONT GHIA ESP SHOULD MAKE FOR A PRETTY RAPID STREETER. HE WAS RIGHT
4 min |
Yearbook 2024
Street Machine Australia
ROYAL CARRIAGE
BENNY ROYAL TOOK A FAMILY HEIRLOOM TOYOTA CORONA, SHOVED A 1JZ IN IT AND HEADED OFF FOR FIVE DAYS OF DRAG-AND-DRIVE
2 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
DEBUT TOUR
WITH A SCREAMING HOLDEN SIX, DEAN TROUNSON'S HOME-COOKED HR STEERS WITH THE BEST OF 'EM
3 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
FULLY FRANKED
A SNEAKY 670 HORSES OF FRANK MARCHESE POWER MAKES ROB GORGIEVSKI'S CONCOURS XW A PROPER TREAT
4 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
NOMADIC LIFESTYLE
DON'T BE FOOLED BY ITS DEMURE APPEARANCE THIS '57 CHEVY NOMAD IS A RAUNCHY RESTOMOD PACKING MODERN MUMBO
4 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
PERFECT 10 '!!!!
THE SYDNEY HOT ROD & CUSTOM AUTO EXPO TURNS 10
3 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
VAN WILDER
PETER MARRIOTT BUILT THIS TOUGH, 350 CHEV-POWERED HK PANEL VAN IN TRIBUTE TO THE LONG-LOST HT VAN OF HIS YOUTH
4 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
EXPRESS DELIVERY
IF YOU'VE ever been to the Bright Rod Run (and you damn well should've), odds are you've seen Joel Beatson lapping in an early Falcon.
4 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
RED HOT & BLUE
A REBORN PROGM8 SHOOTS FOR THE TITLE OF AUSTRALIA'S BEST SHOW-AND-GO COMMODORE
4 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
PEOPLE LIKE US
WHEN Michael Gonzalez isn't busy making eight-second passes in CHOCTOP, his street-driven, LSA-fed VC Commodore, or cruising one of the many other cars in his collection, he can be found managing Springmount Raceway, home to Far North Queensland's biggest horsepower hoedown, Northern Nats (see p. 48 for full feature).
2 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
DRIVING INNOVATION
EVER WISH YOU COULD HAVE A BRAND-NEW VERSION OF AN ICONIC 1970s AUSSIE MUSCLE CAR, FULL OF THE LATEST TECH? DRIVE SOUTH IS WORKING TO MAKE THAT A REALITY
2 min |
July 2024
Street Machine Australia
TRUE NORTH
AFTER MONTHS OF RAIN, THE DRAG RACING DROUGHT BROKE AT SPRINGMOUNT RACEWAY WITH NORTHERN NATS 8
3 min |