Year Book 2020

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WELCOME to Street Machine’s first ever Yearbook! How is it different from a regular monthly issue of SM? Well, the truth is, it isn’t, but we’ve increased our frequency from 12 issues a year to 13, and we had to call it something! In the early days,
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EDITOR Andrew Broadley ART DIRECTOR Leah Gionis ADDITIONAL DESIGN Povi Pullinen SUB-EDITORS Brett Collingwood, Matt Reekie JOURNALIST Kian Heagney VIDEO & EVENT PRODUCER Scott Taylor DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Mary Lee SOCIALS Paul Cronin EDITOR-IN-CHIE
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Highly Motorvated
HERE is some massive news for the West Aussie car scene: the crack team that has brought you Street Machine Summernats for the past 10 years and, more recently, MotorEx, has come on board to help bring Motorvation back to its former glory. This is no
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> HOT GOSSIP
THE dedicated folk at Cudgegong Cruisers have been running their annual Cancruise event to raise money for the Mudgee branch of Can Assist for the past 12 years. Like all that is good in the world, bastard COVID-19 threatened to derail the event for
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Oughta Be Outlawed
CAN’T get enough of that street car life? Then check out our special Street Machine Outlaws magazine. Harking back to the days of Performance Street Car, Outlaws is 100-percent pure grunt; there isn’t a single car featured that doesn’t make at least
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Allen Macfadyen
ALLEN MacFadyen has spent most of his life buying, selling, breaking and fixing classic Aussie metal around Geelong and beyond. He’s also indoctrinated three sons into the carmad lifestyle, including Torana racer Scott (SM, May ’11). We caught up wit
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Christmas Cars 2019
VEHICLES: 1969 Dodge Charger, 1973 Ford F100, 2006 Dodge Charger, 1949 Dodge Coronet, 1999 Ford Crown Victoria, 1971 Chrysler 300, 2006 Dodge Ram STARS: John Schneider, Mindy Robinson, Johnny Rock, Elijah Evans, Lorelei Linklater, Jackson Pierce, Cha
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Your Stuff
Write to: Your Stuff, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email streetmachine@aremedia.com.au. Make sure you include your address (not necessarily for publication). Keep it short and sweet! HELLO, I’m sending you some photos of my ar
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Holden Out
AN EMOTIONAL win for Shane Van Gisbergen and Garth Tander at Mount Panorama in October marked the end of Holden’s factory involvement in the Supercars series. With just one racing season left before the Lion departs circuits forever, you took to Face
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Cusso King
SITTING under the stuffed head of a cape buffalo in a house full of the mementos of a life well lived, 80-year-old Jim Kerr regaled us with tales of hot rodding and drag racing exploits that began in the early 1960s. Now, a few months after Jim’s pas
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White Riot
ANDREW Canicais is a pretty young bloke, still in his late 20s, but has had a pretty impressive list of cars already, including a couple of VN SS Commodores, a VZ Maloo and a VY GTS dubbed PRO GTS that was airbagged and ran 10-second quarters. But he
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Secret Agent
UNLESS you’ve been living under a rock for the past 10 years or so, you would have heard of the Moits Racing team and their stable of good-looking and very quick race cars. Their history on the race track goes further back than that, though – all the
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DOWN & DIRTY
AS RAIN fell over Archer Falls Airfield in the picturesque Sunshine Coast hinterland, a sense of serenity pervaded – that is, until the calm was shattered by the screams of a well-worked 186 grappling for traction. Welcome to the ninth Salubrious Dir
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Lemon Zest
MAT ‘Gudge’ Budaj remembers how it all started: “When I was 15, I pitted for Manuel Galea, who raced an RX-4 with a 400ci small-block. His brother had a plain yellow XY.” That teenage XY vision made such an impression on Gudge that he ended up buildi
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Gold Rush
MENDO Mitrevski has turned his hand to a number of street car projects in the past, including several SS Commodores and an XY GT Falcon. But in 2015, the train guard from Shellharbour set about fulfilling a vision he’d nurtured since his first Summer
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War Machine
PURCHASED by Steve Sterjovski in the year of the Sydney Olympics, ITSWAR started its journey as a fairly typical Sydney-spec VL Calais Turbo. Riding on a set of 17-inch Simmons FRs and powered by a singlecam RB30 sporting a Microtech ECU, big interco
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Powder KEG
WHEN it comes to project cars, some of us are flat-out getting one done, while others, like Scott Barter, don’t mind juggling multiple builds at once. The bossman at Oxytech Powder Coatings had this supercharged, airbagged ’56 Chev pick-up built whil
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The Aussie Cop Car Honours Roll
FORD Australia launched its US-designed, locally made Falcon in September 1960. Within a year or two, Ford was producing special versions for Victorian Police, replacing the Falcon’s standard 144ci six with a souped-up version of the optional 170ci m
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LAST Of The INTER CEPTORS
FOR a fast-car nut, there are few things that grab the attention quicker than a mirror-full of red and blue lights: cherries and berries; whirligigs. You’re being lit up, wheeled, pulled over. For decades, whenever your gaze darted from the road ahea
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BOX of TRICKS
IT’S a surprise this wasn’t a character in the movie Cars. The black-painted front wheelarches are the shoulders framing a teddy-bear face with its grille-shaped nose and those sparkling eyes posing as headlights. It was this happy personality that f
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Game Day
THERE are not a great many positives to have come about from this whole COVID-19 malarkey, but in a strange way it was well-timed for Sydney Dragway. Plans were already well advanced for an extensive refurbishment of the facility this year thanks to
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Stop Shop
IT’S no secret that Aussie cars didn’t have great brakes back in the 60s and 70s. But as we keep jamming horsepower into cars of this era – which we drive on crowded roads full of dingbat drivers – the need for heavy-duty braking artillery has never
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Born To Be Wild
CALL me biased, but the XW/XY Falcon has to be one of the toughestlooking body shapes to ever roll off the Broadmeadows production line. Owen Webb’s WILD THING XY took those muscular lines and turned them up to 11! Debuting at Summernats 1 in 1988, W
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Comet’s Tale
RESPECTED racer John Kerr has successfully finished every five-day Street Machine Drag Challenge event so far in his tough, home-built, 364ci-powered ’64 Mercury Comet Caliente. The Comet’s straightforward aspirated set-up is proof that you can score
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Bumpin Grind
ANY way you look at it, Luke Kestle’s 1970 Holden Belmont ute is badarse. You’ll go a long way to find a street car more focused on getting from point A to point B as quickly as possible. And it has the scalps to prove it, having won some prestigious
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Robyn Bradbury
FOR Robyn Bradbury, it was the build process of her husband Terry’s immaculate XM Futura (SM, Sep ’18) that slowly lured her into the car scene. Through choosing paint colours and assisting with the creation of a bespoke ride, she was hooked! And whi
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Dirty Stuff
SO, YOU’VE been driving a boiler. You’ve checked for obvious external and internal coolant leaks and discovered damn nothing. No blown gaskets; no head or block cracks; no split cylinder walls; no gunk in the radiator tubes. Where do you go from here
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In Gear
HALTECH’S new Nexus R5 combines the functionality of a power distribution module, a datalogger, a dual-channel wideband controller and a state-of-the-art engine management system in one powerful device that Haltech is calling a VCU (Vehicle Control U
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In The Build
“I’VE owned a bunch of panel vans throughout my life, but about a decade ago I lost my pride and joy, a genuine HJ Sandman van, due to financial issues. This HZ pano is the replacement, which I bought around five years ago. It was built in July ’79 –
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Readers’ Rockets
SEND photos of your car and a few details of what went into the build to Readers’ Rockets, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email readerscars@aremedia.com.au. Please note: Send us copies of prints as we are unable to return your p
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Lol
Send your favourite funnies to: LOL, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email them to: streetmachine@aremedia.com.au. A MAN is wandering the desert, having lost his way, when he comes across a friendly-looking salesman with a suitca
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Sunday Too Far Away
Send your photos of fun with cars to: Sunday Too Far Away, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166, or email high-resolution images (1mb+) to: sundaytoofaraway@aremedia.com.au. Please send copies of prints as we are unable to return your ph
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600ci Big-block Ford
WHILE many know of the Chrysler Hemi’s ferocious reputation in American muscle car lore, Ford had its own ‘semi-hemi’ race-ready big-block. The Boss 429 was fitted to Ford’s angriest Mustang as a way of homologating the 7.0-litre brute for use in NAS

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