Automotive
Street Machine Australia
READERS' ROCKETS
WANT your pride and joy featured in the mag? Just send some photos of your car (minimum file size 2MB each) and a few details of what went into the build to readerscars@streetmachine.com.au.
4 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
GREY MATTER
WHEN ONLY HALF HIS '68 CAMARO CAME BACK FROM THE BLASTERS, BEN FINK TURNED TRAGEDY INTO TRIUMPH BY BUILDING IT INTO AN AWARD-WINNING, BIG BLOCK-POWERED PRO TOL RER
4 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
STORAGE WARS
CHRIS MURPHY'S XW UTE SPENT YEARS BEING USED AS A STORAGE CLOSET UNTIL HIS WIFE GAVE HIM A GENTLE PUSH IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
4 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
CHIPS 2017
CHIP HAPPENS
2 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
BOSS STATUS
PAUL JOHNSTON'S METICULOUSLY DETAILED VK PROVES IT PAYS TO SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF
4 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
BROADCAST
THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR BURNOUTS, AND THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSECTION OUTSIDE A CARS-AND-COFFEE EVENT AIN'T IT
3 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
CODE BROWN
A FEW years ago, Darwin local Joe Thring caught wind that Matt James was thinking of selling his iconic VF Commodore burnout ute, UNWANTED.
4 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
MOUNTAIN HIGH
IT'S ORGANISED CHAOS AS STREET MACHINES MATT HULL TRIES HIS HAND AT MANAGING A RACE TEAM AT MOUNT PANORAMA'S BATHURST 6-HOUR
7 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
CROSS BREEDING
REMEMBER the wild badge engineering that went on in the 80s and 90s? To compensate Nissan for the sales success of the Ford Maverick - a rebadged GQ Patrol - Ford gifted the Japanese carmaker the XF Falcon ute, which was uninventively rebadged the Nissan Ute.
2 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
AUSSIE STREET MACHINING'S GOLDEN JUBILEE
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS SINCE THE INAUGURAL STREET MACHINE NATIONALS
2 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
JOSH SOXSMITH
REDCLIFFE, QUEENSLAND
2 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
SIX-PACK IS BACK!
THE SIX-CYLINDER MUSCLE CAR IS BACK! DODGE IS THROWING ITS TWIN-TURBO SIX INTO THE UNSUCCESSFUL EV CHARGER TO GIVE IT SOME LIFE ON THE SALES CHARTS
2 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
YELLOW FEVER
CLAYTON GOW HAD A PLAN TO BLOW SOCKS OFF IN THE SUMMERNATS TOP 60, AND THIS FINE DATSUN 1200 WITH A CABINET FULL OF SILVERWARE IS THE RESULT
4 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
YOUR STUFF
I AM not a street machiner; I like Toyotas. Yes, some people really do appreciate the simple, clear lines of a 2000-model Camry sedan, and how advanced the Echo really was.
2 min |
October 2025
Street Machine Australia
PAST INTO PRESENT
WHILE IT LOOKS LIKE A WELL-USED WARRIOR FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF PRO STREET, THIS 632CI, BIG-TYRE HK MONARO IS A STREET MACHINE FOR MODERN TIMES
3 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
FRESH HERBS
IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE A SWEET STOCKER, BUT WITH BOOST APLENTY UNDER THE BONNET, THIS XR'S READY TO RUMBLE
4 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
SHAKE, RATTLE 'N' ROLL
A CAR-MAD COMMUNITY THROWS A HELL OF A PARTY AND RAISES OVER $5000 FOR CHARITY
3 min |
August 2025
Street Machine Australia
BEC ROBINSON
PASSIONATE about speed whether she's on two or four wheels, Bec Robinson is a gearhead from way back.
2 min |
August 2025
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 |