Features
Gorgeous, glossing spreads on the most beautiful and hardcore modified cars that Australia’s custom scene has to offer.
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!
BLOWIN’ GASKETS: A VERY SPECIAL HOLDEN V8
Some engines are just born special. Behold the story of one man’s relationship with a Holden 308
FOR SALE: BIG WILLIE’S DUKE & DUCHESS DAYTONA ON THE BLOCK
At the risk of gushing over yet another winged warrior on the Mecum Auctions website, we reckon Big Willie’s Daytona might be the coolest thing we’ll see this week
Mark Hayes’s 763ci nitrous LC Torana selected for Street Outlaws v Australia
Torana guru and Pro Street legend Mark Hayes is ready to take on the Street Outlaws NPK crew at Sydney Dragway
BLAST FROM THE PAST: ANIMAL ACTS
Back in 1986 Geoff Paton’s big block-powered Mk1 Cortina was one of the quickest little cars around
BLOWIN’ GASKETS: LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
If you’ve got a problem with a tinkering neighbour, don’t call the local council. Go and say G’day!
FOR SALE: 1200HP DIESEL CHEVELLE COULD BE YOURS
We featured Mike Racke’s ground-breaking Chevelle back in' 09. He said there was no chance of selling it, but things change
GALLERY: TORANA TUESDAY!
Today has been Torana Tuesday, celebrating everything that is good and right about Holden’s mid-size mover
GALLERY: MOPAR MONDAY
Today has been Mopar Monday and the Chrysler crew have blown both Falcon Friday and Wagon Wednesday out of the water
GALLERY: WAGON WEDNESDAY
Today has been Wagon Wednesday! Through our Facebook and Instagram pages, Street Machine readers have been sending in photos of their longroof cruisers
GALLERY: KEVIN BARLETT TALKS ABOUT HIS CHANNEL NINE CAMARO
Of all the cars I’ve raced, none was as painful to get on the track and running competitively as the Channel Nine Camaro
Garth Bell’s Dart Attack gasser
Garth Bell has held a lifelong passion for early 60s Factory Experimental Funny Cars so he decided to build his own
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
Where are they now? HQFORU
Street Machine’s first and most famed giveaway car: a Kevin Bartlett-built HQ Holden Monaro dubbed HQFORU
FOR SALE: 1970 HEMI CUDA WITH JUST 81 MILES ON THE CLOCK
UP FOR sale at Mecum Auctions next month, this is probably the lowest-mileage Plymouth Cuda to go under the hammer since they were new in showrooms back in the 70s
GALLERY: KING OF THE STREET 2015
The invite-only King Of The Street meeting at Heathcote Park Raceway pits some of Melbourne’s top street cars against each other to see who’s got the toughest ride around
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!
GALLERY: THE GATTON SPRINTS
From burnouts to wild conversions, the Gatton Sprints is one of the coolest grassroots motorsport events in Oz
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
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