Articles by Simon TELFORD

Simon landed his dream job on Street Machine magazine in 2002 as features editor, under the tutelage of publishing guru Geoff Seddon. Moving up to editor in 2013, Simon and his team expanded the footprint of the brand to include the online build series Carnage, Drag Challenge events and e-commerce. These days, Simon oversees the teams behindÂ 4X4 Australia, Unique Cars and Street Machine. Besides motoring titles, Simon has written for Qantas Magazine, Australian Guitar and the Sydney Morning Herald. Simonâ€™s personal fleet includes a custom EJ Holden, a 1973 Triumph Tiger motorbike and a 1977 HZ Holden One Tonner. He also has the privilege of piloting a 600hp FX Holden at nostalgia drag racing events.

CHOPPED: TELFO’S TOP 20, SO FAR

WE ARE about to leave the office and head up to Chopped 2014.

LEGAL 8 takes on the Aussie Muscle Car Run

We love it when we discover a classic Street Machine feature car from the past is still up and running hard, but Neville Philips’s LEGAL 8 EH Holden is doing better than most

GALLERY: CHOPPED 2014 PREVIEW

The annual Chopped Rod & Custom Show is a three-day festival for pre-1965 hot rods, customs and bikes happening the weekend of 3-5 October in Newstead, Victoria

EVENT: STREETCAR SHOOTOUT – OCT 18TH

Think your street machine is fast? Then why not bring it to the Street Machine Streetcar Shootout at Heathcote Park Raceway for a laid-back day of high horsepower fun

GALLERY: POWERCRUISE 50

Powercruise celebrated its 50th event this past weekend at Queensland Raceway. The Street Machine team arrived on the Friday to find the show already well underway

GALLERY: SIX BANGER NATS

Lovers of six-cylinder power converged on Warwick Dragway in Queensland over the weekend for the annual Six Banger Nats

AUSTRALIA’S FASTEST STREET CARS

The Australian Pro Street Association held the third round of its series at Benaraby Raceway last weekend, and heavy hitters came from up and down the east coast to play

SIX BANGER NATS PREVIEW

The annual Six Banger Nats is ready to rock Warwick Dragway, 13-14 September. To get revved up, let’s look back at our tribute to the event’s founder, Mark ‘Panic’ Stewart

SMOTY HALL OF FAME – Dave Bennett’s RAT ATTACK

We’re revisiting all the winners from the glorious past. The second-ever SMOTY winner, back in 1989, was Dave Bennett’s monstrous HQ Monaro

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? BLO BAK 2

With this year’s Valvoline Street Machine of the year award set to kick off, we thought it would be the perfect time to look back on all the previous winners, so let’s get cracking

Gallery: Phil Mizzi’s 1954 Kombi

Sydney bloke Phil Mizzi is a latecomer to the world of Volkswagens, but he has set the online Kombi world alight with his ratty-looking ’54 single cab ute dubbed Grover

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VIDEO: PROJECT SWINGER

Introducing our new reader give-away car, a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger

IN VIDEO – Scotty’s Hemi Six Build

Our Scotty has his 265 Hemi six project on the dyno today! Catch up with the progress so far

GALLERY – TELFO’S MOTOREX TOP TWENTY

Picking a favourite car from MotorEx is a hell of a task, so I thought I’d narrow it down to twenty. Turns out, that wasn’t much easier

IN VIDEO – TOXICQ Holden HQ

We chat to the blokes from Cad Customs at Meguiar's MotorEx about the super-smooth TOXICQ

STREET MACHINE AUGUST – ON SALE NOW!

Grab a preview of the metal masterpieces jammed into Street Machine this month

MEGUIAR’S MOTOREX 2014 PREVIEW

For the first time in its 14 year history MotorEx is heading south, bringing the biggest indoor show Melbourne has ever seen

RETROTECH E9 BMW

Check out this sweet little ’74 BMW coupe we spied in the build at J’s Customs in Queensland

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD BREAKS COVER

A rough cut of the first new Mad Max film in 30 years was shown in California yesterday. Sounds like it might be worth the wait!

In Pics: Powerplay Brisbane

Powerplay at Queensland Raceway always brings a host of tough street machines out to play