Features
Gorgeous, glossing spreads on the most beautiful and hardcore modified cars that Australia’s custom scene has to offer.
Taverna Brothers Engineering’s BAD ATTITUDE FG Falcon
Taverna Brothers Engineering’s new G6E Falcon is a monster!
3000HP BENTLEY DRAG RACER
What's the ultimate lump for a Bentley? Is it the classic British-made 6 and three-quarter litre V8? Or could it be 10.2 litres of American muscle with two mighty turbochargers thrown in?
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
Lexus V8-powered EH Holden ute
We featured Adrian Donohoe’s EH ute back in 2005. Almost a decade later, it’s still going strong
BUILD: VIPER V10 SAAB 9-3 WAGON
A what? Behold one of our favourite Swedish builds from the last few years: a Saab 9-3 wagon with Viper SRT10 running gear
THE SIMPSONS’ COOLEST RIDES
The good folk over at Jalopnik.com took it upon themselves to list all the real cars that have been featured in The Simpsons over the years. Now we’ve done our own list of just the cool stuff
Frank Rejtano’s SMOTY-winning 1964 Corvette
The first American car to win Street Machine of the Year was Frank Rejtano’s insane ’64 Corvette Stingray. Here’s what we wrote about it back in the July/August 1993 edition of Street Machine
SMOTY Hall of Fame – Craig Parker’s TUFFXY
Craig Parker’s TUFFXY Fairmont was a ground-breaking car back in 1991 – and the first Ford to take out Street Machine of the Year
AUSSIE BLOKES BUILD A BATMOBILE
At first glance, this wild machine looks like one of the genuine movie cars, but the truth is that was built in Perth by a couple of Aussie blokes
1982 Pontiac Trans Am Knight Rider KITT tribute
KITT, the four-wheeled star of 80s TV series Knight Rider rides again
KA-POW! Bloke turns his Valiant into a Batmobile!
Car nut Marke Kemp decided to recreate the caped crusaders cruiser after he tired of building and selling Mad Max replicas
GREAZEFEST PHOTO COMPETITION
Got killer shots from Greazefest in Brisbane or Melbourne? Post them straight to our website and you could win Gold Class tickets
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
IN VIDEO – TOXICQ Holden HQ
We chat to the blokes from Cad Customs at Meguiar's MotorEx about the super-smooth TOXICQ
Dodge Dart Swinger GIVEAWAY
Anyone with a pulse loves a bit of American muscle, and this sublime 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger could be yours!
HSV vs FPV Dyno Battle
Australia’s two most powerful cars hit the dyno for the ultimate power punch up
In video – The ultimate man cave
Watch one man paint an epic mural across three walls and the ceiling of a three car garage
IN VIDEO – FPV GT-F 351
Watch as we take the wheel of the last GT Falcon at Ford's proving grounds