If you’re a fan of the Blue Oval, we have one the largest collections of stories and images of fast Fords on the planet! Our local Falcons of course feature prominently, but we’ve got plenty of Cortinas, Capris, Zephyrs, Escorts, Galaxies, Fairlanes, Fairmonts, GT40s, F100s and of course Mustangs as well. 40 years worth, in fact!
WA HOT ROD & STREET MACHINE SPECTACULAR GOES OFF
A cracking winter weekend brought a couple of hundred cars to Claremont Showground to take part in the Hot Rod & Street Machine Spectacular
STREET MACHINE: JULY 2015
The July 2015 issue of Street Machine includes features on the 40th anniversary of the Holden Gemini, Rod Millen’s Leadfoot Festival, a wild 1970 Hemi Challenger and plenty more!
SLAMMED MODEL A FORD HOT ROD
Graeme Brewer doesn’t mince words. He is a straight shooter in the classic sense of the term, especially when it comes to his ’31 Ford tudor
XD FORD FALCON VAN – FRANKENVAN: READERS CAR OF THE WEEK
Check out this gnarly XD Ford Falcon van owned by Queenslander Brett Ernst. Built in just nine weeks and it runs 10s!
HARLEY KNUCKLEHEAD-POWERED CYCLECAR ON THE DYNO
We love weird and wonderful machinery here at Street Machine, usually the weirder the better, but this 1935 Harley-powered cyclecar blows our minds
STREET MACHINE HOT ROD 15, ON SALE MONDAY
Get your fix of hot rod metal as SM Hot Rod 15 rolls into stores on Monday
Plastic surgeon – Peter Arcadipane
Many Street Machine readers will know who Peter Arcadipane is. His name is among the immortals for the nosejob he did on the star of Mad Max. No, not Mel — the real star, The Last of the V8 Interceptors
THE REAL STORY OF THE MAD MAX XB GT FALCON
Mad Max: Fury Road is creating a new generation of fans, but you can’t beat the magic of the original. If you’ve never read it before, this is the true story of The Last of the V8s
GALLERY: LAST OF THE V8 INTERCEPTORS
The Mad Max Interceptor, last of the V8s and the car that launched a thousand imitators. Well, a few dozen at least, and few could claim to be as correct as Kerry Turley’s amazing tribute to the road warrior
TOYOTA-POWERED XM FORD FALCON: READER’S CAR OF THE WEEK
With 1JZ-GTE power, this unassuming XM is driven to the track and runs nine-second passes on radials!
Running on Empty Dodge Daytona up for auction
MECUMS auctions have some of the coolest cars in the planet roll across their red carpet, but there’s an awesome piece of Australian street machining history going up for auction next week – Kevin Monk’s old Dodge Daytona.
VIDEO: SM COVER CAR HITS THE BURNOUT PAD IN FLAMES
Kynan Hall hits the pad for the first time in his evil XC Falcon coupe
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: SCORPION XW FALCON VAN
With a stonking nitrous-injected Ford six, a Concorde body kit and Rick Pacey Murals, the Scorpion was one of the wildest Falcon vans ever
IS THIS THE WORLD’S CRAZIEST BURNOUT VAN?
Aussies are awesome at putting V8s in cars that never came with big bent eights, and that begs the question. If one V8 is good, are two better?
MAXED OUT: 702CI ’32 FORD COUPE V12
Ian Davis built this nice, shiny ’32 coupe with a 702 cubic-inch V12! The producers of Mad Max: Fury Road liked it so much, they bought it!
VIDEO: CRUISING WITH AN EIGHT-SECOND CAPRI
Take a drive with George Chalikouras’s Chevy-powered Ford Capri
STREET MACHINE: MAY 2015
Mad Max, the mighty Holden V8 and a monster XC coupe head up the May issue of SM
The true story of the HO down the Hume
The journalist and photographer behind the most famous photo in Aussie muscle car history tell their story
VIDEO: SHED-BUILT V12 FORD CLEVO
American mad scientist Jan Baker has built a 552ci V12 Clevo that you need to hear to believe
GALLERY: RUSTED-OUT FJ UTE ENTERS CAR SHOW
Stuck in a dam for the past decade, this tired old Holden enjoys one last day in the sun