Fancy some ripper reading to wind down with over the summer break? Then jam a copy of the January issue of Street Machine in your shopping basket, because boy, is this one a cracker!
On the cover is Brandon Zito’s seven-second, twin-turbo small block-powered LC Torana – our 2025 Drag Challenge champion. We’ve got a full standalone feature on Brandon’s Torry, along with ripper cover art from photographer Chris Thorogood and designer Povi Pullinen.
The Drag Challenge love-in continues with our mammoth 22-page coverage of the 2025 event – one of the biggest we’ve ever hosted. Our 10th-anniversary Drag Challenge had it all: over 250 cars, three tracks, 1500km of road driving, wild weather, and TIG welders being taken to pistons!
Another big Street Machine milestone celebrated in this issue is the crowning of the 2025 Enthusiast Motor Insurance Street Machine of the Year: Martin Pecotich’s stunning, ProFlo Performance-built HTKO Monaro. Editor Andrew Broadley surprised Martin with the trophy and $20,000 big ones thanks to Enthusiast Motor Insurance.
Our bumper crop of feature cars continues with this ’69 Mach 1 Mustang, which has been given the royal treatment by the world-class car builders at Ringbrothers in the States.
We also have two more Drag Challenge 2025 combatants featured this month: Anthony Spadavecchia’s eight-second, Barra-powered XW Falcon ute, which won the Speed Pro Six-Cylinder class, and Aaron James’s big-block Mopar-powered Chrysler Centura.
We’ve also got Ricky Toms’s VH Commodore, which boasts 1000rwhp from its force-fed LS.
Matt Barnsley from The Render Garage takes us through the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, and we also bring you the full Street Machine Summernats Survival Guide, just in time for ’Nats 38!
Arby’s rave for Urban Warfare this month is Ryan Holz’s 2000hp LC Torana, those ponies coming courtesy of the mighty Toyota 2JZ inline six. And, speaking of sixes, that’s exactly where Ryan plans to land this thing on the track.
Mark Psaila’s STOCK6 HR Holden Premier has moved with the times since he first turned it into a tough streeter in the 90s. Now, it’s packing a big set of rear meats and turbo 2JZ power, as he plans to launch into the sevens and hunt GT-Rs in Sydney’s roll racing scene.
Remember COPDAT? It was on the cover of several Japanese tuner magazines back in the day, thanks largely to its Subaru EJ turbo flat-four engine swap! Now it’s back, having had a complete teardown and makeover, and it scored silverware at Summernats 37 on debut.
Want to know what it takes to make a banger aspirated LS? With the help of Troy Worsley from Warspeed Industries and the legend at Precision, we learn how to put together killer aspo LS mills, from mild to downright wild.
Group that in with all our regulars, and it’s one hell of a book. So, head out today and grab a copy of the January issue, and we’ll see you at Summernats!
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