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.
Flashback: Peter Grmusa’s mental ATRISK XR Falcon
Two builds, two Summernats burnout wins and 1000hp
Flashback: Street Machine Summernats 21
Summernats celebrates 21 events in style, with huge crowds, killer cars and just a little bit of craziness
Dean Perkins’s 383-cube Roush Yates D3 NASCAR engine – flashback
Looking back on the former Kiwi touring car champ’s Roush Yates D3 donk from his much-loved XD Falcon
Flashback: Steve Loader’s blown 532-cube VE Commodore – UNLOAD
Steve Loader upped the ante with his tyre-frying UNLOAD Commodore
Steven Loader’s UCSMOKE blown big-block HT Premier – flashback
Most people wouldn’t dare but Steven Loader built it for burnouts
Flashback: Springnats 2009
Witnessing the limits of adhesion and sanity at Shepparton’s Springnats, 2009
Flashback: Street Machine Summernats 22
What depression? It was all smiles in Canberra for Summernats 22, 2009
Fuel-injected 454-cube 1976 Holden HJ Statesman De Ville
David Di Natale's Holden HJ Statesman mainlines fuel straight into it's big-block
Vortech-blown big-block XD Falcon
There’s nothing subtle about a blown, injected big block-powered Falcon
Tubbed, blown Boss 302-powered XP Falcon
It may have four doors but this is no taxi
Video: The Carnage ute makes over 1000kW at the hubs at Summernats
Scotty drives the Carnage twin-turbo VS ute to Summernats 37 and breaks the 1000rwkW barrier on the Haltech Horsepower Heroes dyno!
Jason O’Leary’s LS-swapped EH Holden
The Gen III donk is just the latest change in a 20-year ongoing project
Expression Session: 413 Max Wedge-powered AP5 Valiant
Imagining an Aussie-built AP5 Valiant with a grunty 413 cubes of Max Wedge muscle
Vortech-blown 427 LSX-powered HSV GTO
Troy Higgins wanted a horsepower monster — with 1150hp at the wheels, that’s what he’s got
Ron Barclay’s ’32 Ford five-window coupe
Looking back on Ron Barclay’s street-neat ’32 Ford coupe
Budget-built 9-second VN Commodore
Back in 2012, the Oosterwaal brothers built a 9-second VN Commodore for just over 10 grand. Here's how they did it
Family project: Jesse Bourke’s HT Monaro GTS
Building this genuine HT GTS Monaro was the ultimate family adventure
Video: How to install a Haltech Nexus R5 VCU
Scotty shows us the ins and outs of installing a Haltech Nexus R5 into our Drag Challenge-spec, twin-turbo VS Commodore ute
Mark Dall’Acqua’s two blown V8-powered Ford Escort RS2000s
Mark Dall-Acqua has the perfect ride for every situation
Family-heirloom, Vortech-blown and injected XY Fairmont
Steve Peters kept Granddad’s XY Fairmont just as he got it. Except for the blown and injected V8