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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MOTOREXTRAVAGANZA! • PRESENTED BY LMCT+, MEGUIAR’S MOTOREX IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER, HITTING MELBOURNE SHOWGROUNDS IN A BIG WAY OVER THE FIRST WEEKEND OF MAY

VUFORU LIVES! • ONE OF OUR MOST RECOGNISED PROJECT CARS IS BACK IN OUR HANDS, AND YOU CAN SEE IT AT MEGUIAR’S MOTOREX IN MELBOURNE THIS MAY

HOT GOSSIP

DANIEL CLARKE • TRARALGON, VICTORIA

SMOKEY BITES THE DUST 1981 • HE’S WILD. HE’S NERVY. HE’S A ONE-MAN DEMOLITION DERBY!

SPECTATOR SEASON PASSES ON SALE NOW

YOUR STUFF

QUIK TEMPERED • WHEN IT COMES TO GOING FAST, DAVE WADDINGTON LIKES TO USE THE POWER OF ESP. OH, AND A STORMING, SUPERCHARGED CLEVELAND!

The UTMOST DEGREE • MATHEW HUGHES SPENT HIS 20s SCULPTING HIS FIRST CAR INTO A SUMMERNATS ELITE HALL TROPHY WINNER, AND ALL WITH HIS OWN TWO HANDS!

RUNNING WILD • COME WITH US TO MUSCLE CAR MADNESS, NEW ZEALAND’S WILDEST HOT ROD PARTY – 36 YEARS OLD AND COUNTING!

THE DEVIL INCARNATE • JUSTIN HUNT SHEPHERDED HIS HQ MONARO FROM A BARE SHELL TO A TUBBED BEAUTY WITH A FIENDISH 777HP HEART

IF YOU NEED ME, I’LL BE IN THE SHED

FRESH AIR • WITH GLEAMING CHROME, LUSH CANDY PAINT AND AMPLE GRUNT FOR THE STREETS, A ’57 BEL AIR THIS NICE IS HARD NOT TO LOVE

TURNING PRO • THE KANDOS STREET MACHINE & HOT ROD SHOW SCORED A MASSIVE BOOST IN 2026, BECOMING A PRO BURNOUT SERIES QUALIFIER FOR THE FIRST TIME

THE LONG HAUL • SIXTEEN YEARS IS A LONG TIME FOR A CAR BUILD, BUT WHEN THE RESULT IS AS SUPER-SLICK AS NATHAN LAMBERT’S 600HP LJ TORANA, IT’S CLEARLY TIME WELL SPENT

GROWING PAINS • FROM STOCKER TO TOUGH ASPO STREETER TO TURBO RADIAL RACER, MITCH ROGERS’S XT FAIRMONT HAS EXPERIENCED A RAPID EVOLUTION

MEASURE OF MADNESS • FORGET TURBOS AND BLOWERS – THIS KIWI VL SWINGS 632 CUBES OF NATURALLY ASPIRATED CHAOS

THIS GOES TO 0 12 • IF YOU THINK YOU’VE SEEN EVERYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO LS SWAPS, YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT THIS 900HP V12 LS, MADE RIGHT HERE IN AUSTRALIA

LUKE’S TOY • A TYRE-SHREDDING 1980s ICON FINDS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE IN THE HANDS OF THE NEXT GENERATION

AIR APPARENT • PAUL WOOD’S ALL-MOTOR BIG-BLOCK TORANA HAS 1000-PLUS HORSEPOWER ON TAP, RUNS DEEP EIGHTS, AND ROMPED TO A CLASS VICTORY AT DRAG CHALLENGE 2025

CREATING A MONSTER • JASON ROBERTS’S ‘BABY MONSTER’ MINI PROVES GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES

FRY COOK • NELSON GRANGER’S ‘SENSIBLE’ CAR IS A 454-CUBE, 10-SECOND KINGSWOOD SLEEPER!

GAME OF CHANCE • MEMORIES OF A CLASSIC 1980s STREET MACHINE END UP SPAWNING AN ENDURING FRIENDSHIP

KAHLI BELL • LONSDALE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

ORIENT EXPRESS • A SCREAMING TURBO 1JZ MAKES THIS CRUSTY HK WAGON GET UP AND BOOGIE

IN THE BUILD

IN GEAR

READERS’ ROCKETS

LOL

SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY

422CI SMALL-BLOCK CHEV • BK RACE ENGINES, BANKSTOWN, NSW