Street Machine

Street Machine is the country’s biggest selling, most widely read and most respected modified car magazine. Combining great photography with accurate, expert coverage of the Aussie modified car scene and in-depth technical features, Street Machine celebrates Australia’s passion for older cars, V8s and the lifestyle that surrounds them.

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FULLY OPTIMISED • > THE CORNER-CARVING FUN OF OPTIMA’S ULTIMATE STREET CAR CHALLENGE RETURNS TO AUSSIE SOIL IN 2024

> HOT GOSSIP

THE GRIM RIPPER • > THE CARNAGE VS COMMODORE UTE BUILD WE CALL ‘GRIMACE’ IS COMING ALONG IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS, READY FOR TWIN-TURBO DART LS GOODNESS!

CALEB THOMAS • > TAMWORTH, NSW

WHEELS OF TERROR 1990 • > EVIL WAITS. WITH THE MOTOR RUNNING

Street MACHINE • Street Machine Summernats is Australia’s biggest car festival, with over 125,000 punters through the gate in 2023. It is the time of the year that automotive consumers are most switched-on!

YOUR STUFF

The Don • DON SCHUMACHER WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TEAM OWNER IN THE HISTORY OF NHRA DRAG RACING, WITH 367 EVENT VICTORIES AND 19 CHAMPIONSHIPS OVER A COLOSSAL CAREER

TRIGGA HAPPY • TIM McDONALD AND HIS DAD BROUGHT A SAD XY FAIRMONT HOME NEARLY 40 YEARS AGO. NEITHER COULD HAVE BELIEVED IT WOULD TURN INTO THIS 1100HP MONSTER

Shining ARMOUR • WHILE THE NUMBER PLATES ARE STILL ACCURATE, THIS PARTICULAR BLOWN TWO-DOOR NOW PACKS A LOT MORE FLASH TO MATCH THE DASH

JUNGA BOOGIE • JUNGA BUNGA’S NO PREP CASH DAYS RETURNS TO WARWICK DRAGWAY FOR A DAY OF ADRENALINE-PUMPING RACING

SALVAGE RIGHTS • LUKE NOVEL WAS TOLD TO TAKE HIS GRANDFATHER’S VH VALIANT UTE TO THE TIP. THANKFULLY, HE DIDN’T LISTEN, AS IT’S NOW A TWIN-TURBO LS-POWERED MASTERPIECE

ASPIRING to GREATNESS • DEAN GIANGINIS’S VK CALAIS HARBOURS A SCREAMING, 9000RPM, 850HP ASPIRATED LS THAT WE COULD LISTEN TO ALL DAY LONG

TOUR DE DRIFT • YOUTUBE SENSATION ADAM LZ AND OTHER AMERICAN DRIFTING LEGENDS JOIN AUSTRALASIA’S BEST AT CALDER PARK FOR THE FINALE OF THE LZ WORLD TOUR

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT • THIS 900HP, BLOWN BIG-BLOCK CHEV-POWERED TOYOTA CROWN WAS OVER A DECADE IN THE MAKING

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GENERATION X • BRENDAN WRIGHT’S BLOWN, DART STROKER-POWERED XM HARDTOP HEIRLOOM IS A BRILLIANT TRIBUTE TO HIS LATE GRANDFATHER

THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI • CHRIS BORG’S FACTORY-INSPIRED, GUNDAGAI GREY HT PANO IS AN EXERCISE IN UNDERSTATED CLASS

THE LOWE ROAD • > JUST LIKE IAN HAZEL’S HG PREMIER IN THE 80s AND RON BARCLAY’S HQ UTE IN THE EARLY 90s, DAMIEN LOWE’S VB COMMODORE SET THE STANDARD FOR HIS OWN GENERATION OF STREET MACHINERS TO FOLLOW

SUPRA CHARGER • > PAUL MOUHAYET SETS HIS SIGHTS ON MID-SIXES AT 225MPH IN HIS 2000HP TOYOTA SUPRA

CHANTELLE LOVEDAY-LAMONT • > MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

WHEELS UP! • > ANDREW BAUMGARTNER’S HB TORANA COMBINES BIG TYRES AND BUDGET GRUNT TO MAKE ONE NASTY DRAG CHALLENGE MACHINE

IN THE BUILD

RUFF & READY • > BRIAN PETRASS HAD NEVER BUILT A CAR BEFORE, BUT HIS PATINA-CLOAKED, 409HP HQ IS ALL KILLER, NO FILLER

DIRTY STUFF

CHEAP THRILLS • > SIMO PONDERS WHETHER A STREET MACHINER’S NATURAL DESIRE TO CONSTANTLY EVOLVE THEIR RIDES CAN KILL SOME OF THE FUN ALONG THE WAY

IN GEAR

READERS ROCKETS

LOL

SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY

403CI BLOWN LS • > PROFLO PERFORMANCE, CAMPBELLTOWN, NSW