<\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nAnd the reader winner is:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n First held in 1988, Street Machine of the Year is decided by popular vote, with the street machine community voting for their favourite car out of 16 finalists selected from the past 12 months of Street Machine <\/em>feature cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\nEvery voter goes into a draw to win $5000 from Milwaukee, and this year\u2019s winner is Ash Torpy from Geelong in Victoria. Ash loves motocross, offroading and burnouts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’m so stoked! The timing of this is impeccable as I’ve just had my first child. I can’t believe it – I’ve never won anything in my life!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Got Form<\/h2>\n\n\n\n While the 2023 Milwaukee Street Machine of the Year win belongs to both Jake and Gary, the latter is the winningest SMOTY competitor of all time, with four wins dating back to 2001, when GM176 won the award for the first time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n2001: GM176 Mustang<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n2005: \u2018Silver Bullet\u2019 Mustang<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n2017: AGROXA Falcon hardtop<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n2023: GM176\/S1CKO Mustang<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The people have spoken and the 2023 Milwaukee Street Machine of the Year winner has been crowned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":155343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Gary and Jake Myers's iconic Mustang scores its second Milwaukee Street Machine of the Year win","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[630,1077,9492,9516,10035,10036,10037,10038,30],"coauthors":[544],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gary-jake-myers-mustang-smoty-2023-winner-1-crop-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155733,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155324\/revisions\/155733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=155324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}