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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RETRO ACTIVE • > THE RETROSPEED WILBY PARK SPRINTS IS AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST LITTLE EVENT FOR PRE-’78 MUSCLE AND SPORTS CARS THAT STOP, TURN AND GO

HOT GOSSIP

HELL UNLEASHED!

DAVE LUFF • > MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

CUSTOM FX-FJ HOLDENS

FIREBALL 500 1966 • > THEY’LL TAKE A CURVE – ANY CURVE

YOUR STUFF • Write to: Your Stuff, Street Machine, Unit 9/3-5 Gilda Court, Mulgrave, Vic 3170 or email streetmachine@wheelsmedia.com.au. Make sure you include your address (not necessarily for publication). Keep it short and sweet!

A LEGEND LIVES ON

’BOX OF TRICKS • ■ BRETT HEWERDINE IS BACK WITH ANOTHER EPIC STREETER, THIS TIME A 1949 ‘SHOEBOX’ FORD PACKING A BLOWN BIG-BLOCK AND ELITE-LEVEL DETAILING

BLACK MIRROR • WITH AN LS3 UP FRONT, GREG ESLICK’S BLACK-AS-NIGHT HQ COUPE IS A SUMMERNATS TOP 60 STUNNER BUILT FOR THE STREET

ROCK SOLID

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ON POINT • YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THIS VJ VALIANT FROM SUMMERNATS 25, WHERE IT BLEW UP IN SPECTACULAR FASHION. NOW IT’S BACK, BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER!

ORIENT EXPRESS • A CLASSIC MID-SIZED AUSSIE MUSCLE CAR STUFFED FULL OF STOVE-HOT JAPANESE SIX-POT IS A SURE-FIRE RECIPE FOR A GOOD TIME

BLUE DAY • GEELONG ALL FORD DAY 2023 SAW 1500 CARS LINED UP IN ONE OF THE BLUE OVAL’S HOLIEST CITIES

MIAMI VICE • OSSIE FISH’S DEAD-SMOOTH XW FEATURES 21ST-CENTURY TECH WHERE IT COUNTS: IN THE ENGINE BAY

THE CANDY MAN • NICK SAMUEL THREW LASHINGS OF GORGEOUS CANDY RASPBERRY PAINT AND 1000HP OF BLOWN LS GRUNT AT HIS GENUINE VL CALAIS. THIS IS THE RESULT

YOUTHFUL EXUBERANCE • AS THIS issue of Street Machine goes to print, more entries for the 2023 Milwaukee Young Street Machine of the Year are landing in our inbox each and every day. However, by the time you read this, entries will have closed, and we’ll be dutifully poring over the many dozens of amazing submissions, painstakingly whittling them down to just 16 finalists to put to public vote. Of all those we have received thus far, here’s a selection of cars that caught our attention and showcase the amazing variety of builds that are involved in YSMOTY. Good luck to all the young punks who have submitted their project!

ARMED ESCORT • ADAM SMITH’S MK1 ESCORT HAS GONE FROM TIDY TRACK CAR TO NEAT STREETER THANKS TO SOME MODERN MUMBO

GET HER DONE! • > AN EASTER LONG-WEEKEND THRASH BY A BUNCH OF GOOD MATES BRINGS A LANGUISHING PROJECT TO FRUITION

TUNNEL OF SHOVE • > JI AND TIM ACKLAND THREW OLD-SCHOOL, TUNNEL-RAMMED NITROUS GOODNESS INTO AN AU FALCON STREETER TO TACKLE DRAG CHALLENGE

IN THE BUILD

ZACH GALLAHAR • > 16, PAKENHAM, VICTORIA

DIRTY STUFF

SILLY SEASON • > THE RECENT STREET OUTLAWS: NO PREP KINGS TOUR HAS SPARKED A GAME OF MEGA-DOLLAR MUSICAL CHAIRS AMONG AUSSIE DRAG RACERS

IN GEAR • To have your product featured here, call Joseph Lenthall on (02) 8114 9421 or email joseph.lenthall@wheelsmedia.com.au.

READERS ROCKETS • SEND photos of your car and a few details of what went into the build to Readers’ Rockets, Street Machine, Unit 9/3-5 Gilda Court, Mulgrave, Vic 3170 or email readerscars@wheelsmedia.com.au. Please note: Send us copies of prints as we are unable to return your photos.

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