Automotive
Street Machine Magazine
Home-Grown Hero
Morris Markovic built a humble xe falcon into a summernats top 20 showpiece in his garage
5 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
Blue-Sky Thinking
Ben Grayland’s modest plan for a nice, simple cruiser kicked off an eight-year snowball that landed his XR falcon in the summernats top 60
3 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
TOUR DE FORCE
MARK SANDERS IS ONE OF THE TRUE INNOVATORS OF THE AUSSIE PRO TOURING SCENE, BUILDING CORNER-CARVING WEAPONS THAT WERE ALSO PRETTY HANDY AT PICKING UP AWARDS
6 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
MOVING VIOLATION
TO SOME, DEFILING A CLASSIC HOLDEN WITH A FORD MOTOR IS AKIN TO HERESY. BUT FOR AL MCCLURE AND HIS TWO SONS, IT’S SIMPLY A SUREFIRE PATH TO SEVENS
5 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
IMPURE THOUGHTS
PATRICK LAWLER AND HIS MATES BUILT A DRAG CHALLENGE WEAPON TO RILE UP THE PURISTS
2 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
D-DAY
SPEED PRO’S MARCUS CRIPPS STICKS 1400HP WORTH OF TURBO BARRA INTO AN XD FALCON TO CREATE A SEVEN SECOND STREET MONSTER
5 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
DIRTY STUFF
SOMETIMES in this often complicated go-faster game, we end up involved in strange and interesting things – in this instance, soldering brass to aluminium. The method behind this particular job came to me several years back when I was given a very old textbook with the title Modern Motor Repair & Overhauling, Volume III. When I spotted a chapter in this book on welding, brazing and metal-cutting that also made mention of soldering aluminium, I got all interested and read on.
3 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
BRODEE ESPIE
ALICE SPRINGS, NT
2 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
AFTERBURNER
TWIN-TURBO V8 STREET CARS WERE A RARE COMMODITY IN 1988, BUT GRAHAM SCHILD WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME WITH THIS WILD VJ CHARGER
2 min |
August 2020
Street Machine Magazine
Dust Storm
Anthony Raschella’s ’72 duster waltzed through drag challenge 2019 without a cough
3 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
TOUGH NUT
GEORGE SEPAROVICH LIVES LIFE AT 10,000RPM IN HIS BONKERS VF COMMODORE SKID RIG, NUTTR
6 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
RISING TO THE CHALLENGE
ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S FIERCEST NATURALLY ASPIRATED BURNOUT COMPETITORS BUILDS A BLOWN DRAG CHALLENGE CAR – AND ALMOST BECOMES SUMMERNATS GRAND CHAMPION IN THE PROCESS!
6 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
LIFE IN MOTION
THE MODIFIED-CAR LIFE IS AS MUCH ABOUT CREATING MEMORIES AND FRIENDSHIPS AS IT IS ABOUT BUILDING CARS
4 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
In The LIMELIGHT
THIS SHINING JEWEL OF AN AP6 STEALS THE SHOW WITH A ROOTS-BLOWN, 410-CUBE MONSTER UP FRONT
6 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
Economy DRIVE
DELUXE ROD SHOP BUILDS AN IMMACULATE ’32 ROADSTER WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK THANKS TO SOME LEFT-OVER PARTS AND PLENTY OF ELBOW GREASE
8 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
YOUNG LION
26-YEAR-OLD TIM POLSEN HAS BUILT AN AWARD WINNING HQ PREMIER THAT WOULD MAKE ANY STREET MACHINING VETERAN FOAM AT THE MOUTH
6 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
BRUTAL SIMPLICITY
UNDER THE RATHER UNASSUMING WHITE BODY OF MICK JAHNECKE’S TORANA LIES A THUNDERSTORM OF TURBO LS FURY
5 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
AXE GRINDER
STEPHEN 'HOT AXE' WILSON BUILT SOME INCREDIBLE CUSTOMS IN AN ERA WHEN SUCH THINGS WERE CELEBRATED RATHER THAN SCORNED — INCLUDING HIS ICONIC HT VAN/HK MONARO MASH—UP, HUNCHBACK
7 min |
July 2020
Street Machine Magazine
River Monsters
The 2020 Chryslers on the Murray saw Mopar mania once again engulf the twin murray river towns of Albury-Wodonga
4 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
Staying Power
After 41 years and the automotive adventure of a lifetime, howard nessen is finally ready to call his iconic XB hardtop ‘done’
7 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
Isolation Motivation
Sure, we’re in lockdown, but on the upside, it gives us plenty of time to lavish some love on our car projects. Here are some sm readers doing just that
10 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
The New NORM-ALL
A LONG OVERDUE CHINWAG WITH NORM AND VICKI FROM AUSSIE DESERT COOLER
6 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
IN THE RED 1999
IF YOU’RE NOT LIVING ON THE EDGE, YOU’RE TAKING UP TOO MUCH SPACE
2 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
THE LONG RUN
THE GEMINI THAT ROCKED SUMMERNATS 2 IS STILL WINNING TROPHIES TODAY!
4 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
CHERRY BOMB
DESPITE NUMEROUS SETBACKS, SHAUN DUNSTAN IS TRANSFORMING HIS CHERRY-BLACK HJ GTS MONARO INTO A 1000HP STREET-AND-STRIP BURNER
5 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
SAUSAGE SIZZLE
KAI MCPHEE’S VC COMMODORE PROVES YOU DON’T NEED A DONK MADE OF DIAMONDS TO RUN WITH THE BEST
5 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
BUCKET OF VOLTS
WEBB MOTORWORKS HAS CREATED AN ELECTRIC CRATE MOTOR THAT LOOKS FOR ALL THE WORLD LIKE A SMALL-BLOCK CHEV
2 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
BACK TO FRONT
CLINT OGILVIE’S ICONIC FRONT/BACK LC TORANA HAS BEEN A MAINSTAY OF THE BURNOUT SCENE FOR DECADES. NOW IT’S TOUGHER THAN EVER BEFORE
6 min |
June 2020
Street Machine Magazine
Power Figure
Engineer warwick bryce served at the gm-h coalface for over three decades, helping to develop many of holden’s most beloved engines and associated technology
8 min |
May 2020
Street Machine Magazine
Is Covid-19 Killing The Car Scene?
A look at the effect coronavirus has had on our sport and the industry that sustains it
3 min |