AS A guitarist, I play many gigs. A funeral director recently asked me to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper’s cemetery in the middle of nowhere. As I was not familiar wit

SHANE Graham didn't know much about Valiants when he bought his VJ Charger 15 years ago. He was 19 years old and in the market for an HQ coupe until this car popped up on eBay. “The look and colour sold it for me,” he says. It helped that the car was

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LIAM Bennett’s stock-car-inspired 1964 Chevelle was one of our favourite spottos at the Hardass 1000, so much so we bailed the expat Kiwi up for a chat after the event to find out more. This is a bloody cool Chevelle! What made you go with the stock-

OLD hands know that project cars are never truly finished, as we’re always tinkering on, improving or spicing-up our rides. For Ballarat’s Brendan Simpson this had culminated in a tidy, small-block-powered HG Premier, but the call of a belt-driven in

AFTER 30-odd years living in Sydney and Melbourne, I’ve recently been repatriated to my native Queensland. While I’m still getting used to the humidity, I’m loving the car scene up here, and nothing has delighted me more so far than the sheer epicnes

WHEN you own a car for 32 years, you form a pretty intense bond with it. Frank Zammit bought this Capri way back in 1992, and in the years since he has transformed it from an asthmatic four-pot into a staunch little street car, then a dedicated race

THE crazies in Street Machine Drag Challenge’s aspirated classes are some of the toughest nuts out there. Rocking old-school carbies, big converters and thumping exhausts, they attempt to drag their mechanical monsters through our DC rolling torture

GIVEN he’s known as one of Australia’s best LS-builders, it may be a surprise to learn Troy Worsley of Warspeed Industries doesn’t own a V8-powered project. The engine mastermind carries the keys to a super-cool KE38 Toyota Corolla wagon, powered by

THE story of Boris Pacey’s HQ Sandman Doorslammer took quite a few twists and turns along its 15-year journey to completion, but when the covers came off at Motorvation 38, the wait and all the effort was rewarded handsomely. Not only did the car pic

WHEN mates brainstorm over a few coldies at their local, magic can happen. For Harry Haig and Ryan Ford, one such session birthed the Hardass 1000. Harry has won Street Machine Drag Challenge twice and raced at several Hot Rod Drag Weeks in the US, w

IN AUGUST 2016, a fella named Jono Calautti drove his XD onto the Young Guns page of this publication. His Heron White streeter won lots of attention with its ruler-straight lines, fat ROH Modenas and one of the most sanitary engine bays we’ve ever s

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OUR photoshoot of Roy Alati’s awesome S-Series Valiant from the Jan-Feb ’97 issue of Street Machine is a particularly memorable one. With its pastel paint scheme, silver bumpers and Dragway billet rollers, the car is oh-so-representative of its time,

I’VE always owned Aussie cars, but this time I wanted something American, and that’s when the ’56 Chev caught my eye. I spent countless days and nights in my garage separating the body from the chassis, stripping the paint and preparing the metal for

“HERE is our XM Falcon gasser project. After going to Chopped a couple of years ago we thought, ‘This was a cool event, but how much better would it be with a car of our own?’ I bought the ute on the-tail-end of COVID prices, so I probably paid a tad

JOHN Goss is the only man to have won both the Australian Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000, achieving the latter twice. John grew up in Tasmania, and when he visited the closed-road circuit of Longford to watch the international drivers race, he pick

A C4 transmission’s input shaft is often an early failure point when the horsepower begins to climb, so RTS has created a 4340 chromoly forged steel version to guard against breakages. Each 26-spline shaft is hardened and heat-treated to produce a fa

WHILE countless car events are hosted in New Zealand’s small towns, none take over as comprehensively as the Repco Beach Hop does with sleepy Whangamata, on the Coromandel Peninsula. The five-day Hop is limited to around 2000 entrants, which is plent

IF YOU made a list of the toughest Aussie pro street cars of all time, Ivan Tesic’s MRMAD LJ Torana would be high on it. Our pro street scene was undoubtedly at its most exciting during the early 2000s, when blown and injected, big-cube nitrous and b

THE third instalment in the Norwegian Børning trilogy, Børning 3: Asphalt Burning sees the often loose and irresponsible street racer, Roy Gundersen (Anders Baasmo) back with his trusty yellow ’67 Mustang, allegedly changed in his ways and getting se

SUPERCARS racer Cameron Waters is set to unveil his 1974 XB Falcon coupe at Meguiar’s MotorEx on 4 May, in an unveiling that both we and the Tickford Racing star have been looking forward to for quite a while. At the time of writing, the car is in pa

MATES can be the worst influence when it comes to buying and building cars, as Michael ‘Mick’ MacGregor quickly learned when he started LS-swapping this tradie-spec HT wagon. “I have a mate with a turbo-LS CV8 Monaro, and he twisted my arm to make it

STRENGTH coaching and car-building may be worlds apart on a surface level, but as Robert Kastoun found with his showstopping ’49 Chev pick-up, dedication, expert help and a shitload of time will get you far in both disciplines. While Rob’s an accomp

THE first year of the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) is moving towards the pointy end after a fantastic season across the country in both Group One and Sportsman racing. After more than a decade of turmoil in the sport, the NDRC has ushered

THE VK Blue Meanie must be one of the most-repeated Commodore tributes out there, so how do you make yours stand out from the crowd? It’s safe to say Anthony Safar has pulled it off with this VK; it looks good and makes a hell of a splash in the proc