Articles by Scott TAYLOR
Raised in a house without 240V electricity, at age 16 Scotty was inspired by early issues of Street Machine to build an HQ ute from the chassis up. During the 90s he dived head-first into drag racing and has lived his life a quarter-mile at a time ever since.As the internet gained popularity, Scotty designed his own how-to websites and helped create Slick 6 Packs magazine, before securing a full-time position at Street Commodores.He then freelanced exclusively for Street Machine for eight years and started a successful YouTube channel called Scotty’s Garage, before joining the SM team full-time in 2013. Since then, Scotty has helped create Carnage and Drag Challenge while supporting a shed full of modified Mopars.
DRAG CHALLENGE 2016 ENTRIES CLOSED
Drag Challenge 2016 is go! Over 100 cars have signed up to go five tracks in five days with over 1500km of street driving
HOME-BUILT 1949 MERCURY LEAD SLED – VIDEO
Swamp wrecked '49 Mercury rebuilt into a head-turning beauty by Ben Mahony at his home
Turbo LS-powered Valiant heading to Drag Challenge 2016
'Barn-find' VG Valiant Hardtop will be gunning for the nine-second zone at Drag Challenge
STUNNING FORD XY FALCON PRO TOURER
Corey Phie's amazing '70 Falcon XY is the perfect mix of race and street
ONE-OF-ONE AUTOMATIC AUSSIE R/T CHARGER
The only automatic Valiant Charger R/T in existence restored to its former glory
V12 LS1 HITS THE DYNO AND MAKES OVER 700HP – VIDEO
Cool Aussie-built V12 engine made from two LS1 V8s hits the dyno
ALL TERRAIN OFF ROAD BUGGY
We go off road in Tomcar's off-road military-grade all terrain vehicle
FORD FALCON XW UTE WITH A 2500HP TWIN-TURBO 440 WINDSOR
Another former workhorse-turn-mental-street-machine is Chris Wright's XW 2500hp Falcon ute
They built a cool V12 using two LS1 engines
Two Aussie blokes have built a V12 engine out of two LS1 V8s. What the?
Falcon XR6 Sprint drive
Scotty drives the new Ford Falcon XR6 Sprint, the last and most powerful turbo six Falcon ever
THIS WHEELSTANDING 1922 T-MODEL SEDAN IS CRAZY
Insane 302-powered T-Model Sedan picks up the front wheels and runs 11s!
HOLDEN POWERED NATIONALS AT HEATHCOTE RACEWAY
Highlights from the Holden Powered drags with nothing but Aussie-built engines
BLOWN 1955 CHEV WITH NITROUS FOR MORE POWER – VIDEO
Meet Joel Halse and his monster 572-cube big-block ’55 Chev, named CALLOUT
XR8 Sprint test drive – the good, the bad and the ugly
THE FG-X XR8 Falcon Sprint is the last Australian-produced V8 Falcon we’re ever likely to see, and we’ve managed to get our hands on one of these limited edition machines to take for a burn.
KING OF THE HILL AT CALDER PARK – STREET CLASS VIDEO
With a full field and great mix of cars, the competition was tough in the Street Class at Calder Park's King of the Hill event
KING OF THE HILL AT CALDER PARK – COMPETITION CLASS VIDEO
Drag strip highlights from the 'heads up, no lights' racing at Calder Park's King of The Hill event
1955 CHEV CRASHES AT 250KPH AND THE DRIVER WALKS AWAY – VIDEO
Rohan Hutson incredibly walked away from a 250kph crash at Calder in his supercharged '55 Chevy coupe
EIGHT-SECOND TURBO V8-POWERED LJ TORANA – VIDEO
Tony Webb's chocolate brown LJ Torana CULPRIT is an eight-second rocket ship
TEN-SECOND 383-CUBE LC TORANA GTR – VIDEO
Young gun Blake Evens built himself a ten-second GTR Torana
TURBO VS COMMODORE SS SLEEPER – VIDEO
Michael Mark's 'stock' VS SS Commodore is quicker than you think