Since Street Machine was founded in 1981, we’ve featured over 1500 customised Holdens from the very first 1948 FX to the final VFII Commodore.
Video: Charlie Dixon’s 1000hp billet RB30-powered HX Belmont ute
Former AFL player Charlie Dixon completes the dream resto of his grandfather’s HX Holden farm ute, complete with 1000hp of billet RB30 shove
Mark Calabro’s home-brewed 1970 HG Kingswood
Bought as a shell when he was 19, Mark Calabro built this HG Kingswood with the help of his dad into a tough street machine
Ned Sassine’s Chev-powered EH Holden
Sydney engine builder Ned Sassine’s Chev-powered EH Holden is a proper old-school strip monster
Nathan Stewart’s award-winning LS3-powered HQ ute
Nathan Stewart took a former kangaroo-hunting, bash-and-crash HQ farm ute and turned it into a Summernats trophy winner
Paul Davies’s 1962 EK Holden Special custom
A Gen Y spin on the classic Australian custom
Tom James’s wild custom FX Holden
Looking back on a priceless piece of Australian custom culture saved from the scrapheap
Video: The Bronze Aussie land speed racer on the dyno – with nitromethane!
We check out a dyno session for this 295mph ex-Rod Hadfield VR Commodore land speed racer
Andrew Simmons’s tunnel-rammed LS-powered HK Premier
Factory luxury combined with stomping LS power and shiny paint? Andrew Simmons bucks his patina roots to build his dream HK Premier
Mellow Yellow: Spiros Kontibas’s HR Holden
Check out this dazzling HR Holden from the April/May 1982 mag!
Haydn Paull’s home-brewed, Barra-swapped VP Commodore
Haydn Paull’s stealthy, home-built VP Executive hides a tough Barra heart
Video: Our supercharged stroker V6 gets nitrous!
In this episode of Carnage, we see if nitrous adds any extra power to the blown, stroker 4.2-litre V6 in our VN Berlina!
Tuff Mounts test bed: 4CE FED VK Calais
Jason Waye’s seven-year love-hate relationship with his ’84 VK Calais proves good things come to those who hate
Where are they now? David Dowling’s ‘SATNAV’ FC Holden
An automotive Atari 2600, David Dowling’s ‘SATNAV’ FC Holden was on the cutting edge of show-car technology in the early 90s
DTK-built REFINED FC Holden ute
Glenn Profilio asked Down Town Kustoms to imagine that Holden introduced an FC ute in 2015 instead of 1958 – and then build it for him
Stunner: Iron Lion-powered VL Holden Calais
Stojan Stekovic went through the fire to build his ultimate Holden-powered street car
AFL star Beau McCreery’s 1000rwhp Harrop-blown VF GTSR
Collingwood premiership player Beau McCreery talks about his love of fast cars and his tough GTSR
Johnny Wilson’s PIG-383 HK GTS Bathurst Monaro
A genuine Bathurst Monaro doing eight-second quarters? You betcha!
Steven Harper’s 355 stroker-powered LX Torana
Steven Harper took the original 1970s LX Torana recipe, kept the core ingredients, and tweaked it just enough to make it an even tastier dish for the 21st century
Damien Smith’s VB Commodore SL/E ‘308 Pack’ in the build
Full nut-and-bolt resto of a rare, factory-optioned Aussie V8 manual Commodore
Video: Putting nitrous on our 4.2-litre stroker L67 V6
In this episode of Carnage, we add nitrous to our supercharged 4.2-litre stroker V6 in our VN Berlina