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WHEN we announced that we were adding two Rods Out burnout comps to the Street Machine Drag Challenge program for 2024 (29 October-3 November), we had high hopes that we could put on a couple of great shows. The response, however, has far exceeded ou

STREET Machine Summernats 37 will rock Canberra into the new year with two huge nights of live music on both Friday and Saturday. Friday night will be the big one for rock fans, with Eskimo Joe, Thirsty Merc and Jet (pictured) all hitting the stage.

WITH its lairy turbo sitting tall, purple and proud up front, Rashaan McGowan’s glorious AU Falcon was an eye-catcher to say the least as it burned rubber at Hidden Valley Raceway during Gazzanats Darwin. We wasted no time in tracking down the 21-yea

FASHIONED after Thunder Road and other moonshine-running flicks of the 1950s and 60s, 1996’s Moonshine Highway is a more modern take on the ‘drivers versus feds’ theme of those earlier films. In 1957, decorated WWII veteran, hotshot driver and serial

CHRIS Pearson has adored the shape of Holden’s HQ ute since he was a young whippersnapper, so when he was looking to build a big, bad street bruiser, there was only ever one model that would fit the bill. “I had one with a small-block when I was a ki

WITH A ProCharged Fox-body Mustang racer, street-driven twin-turbo TD Cortina, and now a nitrous-huffing, 427-cube XY Falcon 500 on his hot-car résumé, it’s pretty clear that Craige Lewis has a type. No matter the number of doors or nation of origin,

ROB Beauchamp was one of the most influential figures in Aussie street machining history, so following his passing in May this year, we felt it was appropriate to honour him with a bespoke piece of art for the cover of Street Machine’s July issue. We

IT WASN’T just the heat that was blazing at Hidden Valley Raceway during Gazzanats Darwin; hundreds of smoking tyres fell victim to the burnout pad as a massive line-up of 52 pro skid cars stormed the NT capital in June for two days of play. Superski

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THERE aren’t many car builds that go exactly to plan, but Western Australia’s Mitchell Rando could have been forgiven for thinking his EH Holden just didn’t want to be brought back to life. Just about everything on the car had to be done twice – not

IT SEEMS we’re in a renaissance of hot American truck builds, and this Meguiar’s MotorEx was a feast for lovers of modified American pick-ups. High among them was Adam Bickerstaff’s incredible 1956 F100, fresh from the maestros at Viking Hotrods in B

FOR years, my mates Stewart and Ross Perry and I have dreamed about getting our classic Aussie muscle cars together and making a pilgrimage from Melbourne to Bathurst, NSW, home of the iconic Mount Panorama race circuit that cemented these cars in Au

THERE are some crazy people out there. Take Martin Micallef, for instance: he decided to tackle the seemingly impossible task of transforming this XB GS from a run-down wreck that’d give you tetanus at 10 metres into a terrific Tango Orange trophy-ha

BUILDING bulk horsepower into our rides has never been easier thanks to modern turbo and blower combos. But don’t think for a second that there aren’t still legends like Steve Carkeet out there crafting traditional Aussie street machines that are har

I DON’T mind telling you that there’s a real sense of occasion when you lower yourself into the driver’s seat of an 11,000hp Nitro Funny Car – even if it happens to be parked on stands in a workshop with no cylinder heads on it at the time. “These ca

WHEN Matt Turner told us he found his VG Valiant Pacer in the longdefunct Trading Post paper, we realised this 440-powered, streetand-strip toughie has not been a short-term mission. “As a kid, my parents had Valiants, and I bought this as a 16-year-

FOR over a decade, Mother Mopar has owned the latemodel V8 horsepower war with its Hellcat and Demon blown Hemis, but Chevrolet has just laid a king-hit on Team Dodge with the release of its C8 Corvette ZR1. That’s because the new LT7 V8 that powers

I FIRST spied Michael Moug’s weatherbeaten XL Falcon at the end of a very long queue for Skid Row at Motorvation 38. “What’s this old shitbox doing in the line?” I thought to myself with a chuckle. “The guy must be lost.” The car’s ground-hugging sta

OVER the past four decades, Wendy Cockroft has navigated the rigours of kiddos and work, but she’s never lost ownership of her beloved ’73 HQ GTS Monaro. The Munro has been a foundational rock throughout Wendy’s life, and it’s now been given a glow-u

WHILE a bunch of Blue Oval engines have earned their stripes as street-and-strip maulers over the years, the old 5.4-litre modular V8 wasn’t one of them. Sure, they make some low-end torque, but they’re also bulky, which has deterred a lot of street

I FIRST got involved in the fix-it game when I was apprenticed to the Ford dealers in Taree, NSW. I was issued with a shiny red toolbox and a handful of spanners and told to go tighten all the bolts on a new Fordson tractor. Of course, having never s

IF YOU’RE familiar with Sydney’s streetcar scene, you’ve probably heard of Louis Younis. He’s well known for the string of tough Toranas he’s prowled the suburbs in over the years, and his latest creation, an LX sedan, continues that lineage. With it

“MY FACTORY V8 XE Fairmont Ghia has been in the build for five years so far. I’ve only ever driven it 20 metres to move it from the transporter to the garage, where I immediately started pulling it apart. This is truly a backyard build and has been a

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BILL is very tight-lipped when it comes to the ignition coils used on this Ford small-block. “Let’s just say that they’re NASCAR-style coils that were very hard to come by,” he laughs. “Good luck to anyone who tries to track a set down!” THIS is the