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Return Of The Kings
MEGUIAR’S MotorEx, one of the Aussie car show calendar’s biggest gigs, will return to the Melbourne Showgrounds on May 4-5. Last issue, we revealed that no less than Jim and Mike Ring of Ringbrothers will be attending the event to meet, greet and ha
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In Gear
FEW things are more satisfying than getting new workshop equipment, and Hare & Forbes has gone all-in on that sensation with its latest mobile workshop bench. For your hard-earned, you get a wooden benchtop, tidy Nardo Grey and gloss black metalwork
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Your Stuff
I’M FLIPPING through the March issue, and just wanted to say how good it is to see the smaller four-cylinder and rotary stuff in the mag. The R100, the Morris Minor and the Mill of the Month CA18 inside the back cover just made my day. Don’t get me w
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Mission: BROWN
IT’S said that twins often share an intrinsic understanding of one another that leads to a special bond, and that’s certainly true of Sydney brothers Younan and Eddie Khazi. The pair are joined at the hip, and given Younan is a panel beater and Eddie
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Hit For Six
YEAR after year, fresh home-brewed cars line up to have a crack at Drag Challenge. While they can’t all collect an ‘I survived’ sticker at the end, some nail it first-try, like Zac Shepherd’s LJ sedan. The 28-year-old has owned the little Holden sinc
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Lol
A BLOKE walks into a bar and sits down next to a guy who has a bowl of chilli in front of him. After ordering a drink and chatting for 20 minutes he speaks up to the guy next to him, who still hasn’t touched the bowl of chilli. “Are you gonna eat tha
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The First quarter
WARWICK Dragway has long been one of the Street Machine team’s favourite tracks to race and spectate at. Only 100km down the road from Willowbank, Warwick has a relaxed country charm that’s kept us coming back regularly over the past 20-odd years for
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The long Road
THE 2005 Kandos Street Machine & Hot Rod Show was a heartbreaker for Jason MacKenzie. Having been subjected to a 7500rpm limiter over 30-odd burnout comps, a rod in his ’67 Camaro’s 350 Chev finally called it a day. “It didn’t come out the side,’ Jas
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Street Machine
EDITOR Andrew Broadley ART DIRECTOR Leah Gionis ADDITIONAL DESIGN Povi Pullinen SUB-EDITOR Jack Houlihan VIDEO & EVENTS PRODUCER Scott Taylor JOURNALIST Kian Heagney DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Mary Lee SOCIAL MEDIA NINJA Paul Cronin COVER PHOTO Ben Hosk
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Dirty Stuff
ALL-NIGHTERS. They’re inevitably expected when you work on customers’ race cars, and they’re often unavoidable when stuff goes wrong before or during a competition event. The last one that involved me and my wife Jan happened at the Pukekohe Park Rac
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Sunday Too Far Away
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Rotary International
PURISTS, look away now. The concept of a sacred cow is foreign to Adelaide maniac Jay Duca, so he had no qualms with cutting up this factory 5.0-powered VL Berlina to achieve his vision of what a VL should be. “I wanted to do one in my style, and I’m
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Legends Of Pro Street
THE annual Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) is a massive, invite-only show that hosts two of the custom automotive world’s most prestigious awards: America’s Most Beautiful Roadster and the Al Slonaker Memorial Award. The GNRS a must-do event, and
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Double Action
WHEN your ‘other car’ is a twin-turbo big-block HQ Monaro, life’s pretty good. But good things don’t come easily, and this monster Monaro build was hard slog for ‘RIVAL’ XE (p.24) builder and co-owner Eddie Khazi. “This HQ wasn’t supposed to exist,”
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Big-buck Burnouts
SUMMERNATS has announced that the total burnout prize pool for Street Machine Summernats 37 will grow to exceed a whopping $70,000. The winner of the top-billed competition will take home $50,000 outright (an increase of $30,000), along with further
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Yacht rock
PRO STREET luxury cars may as well be a religion unto themselves in Victoria. Many Fairmonts, Regals, Statos and LTDs have worn big-and-little wheels over the years, and a select few have picked up Street Machine Summernats Top 60 trophies along the
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In The Build
“AN ACQUIRED taste is this 1974 Leyland P76. It took me a year of staring into the abyss of its single-headlight grille in my backyard, but the abyss finally looked back, and like day-drinking a warm VB from under the back seat, I finally understood
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Hot Gossip
FANCY yourself a free Indian Sport Chief motorcycle, an 11-day trip to the USA to drive a bunch of supercars on the track, $5k cash and an Xbox? Shannons is offering a chance at the ultimate holiday to everyone who takes out a new home or car insuran
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Alysha Athans
WE SPOTTED Alysha Athans’s stunning purple roadster as she lined up for the Street Machine Summernats 36 City Cruise. We jumped in the passenger seat for the epic cruise through Canberra’s city streets, and caught up after the ’Nats to learn about th
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Kickstart My Heart
JASON Hannam is a down-to-earth-bloke with a true-blue, give-it-a-go attitude. It’s with that mindset he garnered the skills to birth this crisp LX SL/R 5000 tribute. Jason’s day job involves laying paint for Hills Autobodies, which came about throug
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Double Nickels 1977
CALIFORNIA Highway Patrol buddies, Smokey (director Jack Vacek pulling double duties) and Ed (Edward Abrahms) are happily living a carefree 1970s life of fun, booze and women, when a fluke roadside encounter offers them a chance to earn some extra sc
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488ci Holden V8
THE age-old saying goes that there ain’t no substitute for cubic inches, but lovers of Holden’s venerable homegrown bent-eight were limited in the capacity stakes until Torque-Power’s alloy Big Paw block came along. With a 9.5in deck height, raised c
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Broadcast
I RECKON it would have been my 24th birthday. A bunch of my mates had come around to celebrate, and at some point I decided it would be rude of me not to hop in the Torana and perform a shed skid for the assembled masses. I fired up the trusty 202, d
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Readers’ Rockets
“THIS is my partner Jesse’s 1986 Mitsubishi L200 ute that she built herself, from the ground up. It started life with us as a farm ute; she found it in a paddock. First, she stripped it bare and built it with a Holden 304 and ‘Glide. Then came the de
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DIY Dream
SCORING top brass at Street Machine Summernats on a modest budget is a rare feat, but Monique and Rob O’Garr did just that with this gorgeous, home-built EH wagon. Even more impressive? They reckon it cost them less than $50,000 to build. “It just s
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Super Nova
TAKING on a drag-and-drive event is no mean feat, especially when you’re on the other side of the world, challenging Americans at their own game. Pushing your car to the limit on the road and track in soaring temperatures and contending with long dai
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In Gear
To have your product featured here, call Kim Simonsen on 0439 422 285 or email kim.simonsen@streetmachine.com.au. THE new Metalmaster HPF-50 trade press from Hare & Forbes is ideal for removing and installing bushes, ball joints, bearings, gears, pul
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Them’s The breaks
THINK about this for a second: Do you actually trust your car? Will it play the game when you’re trying to enjoy the fruits of your hard labour? Can you count on it to show you love when you’re 1000km from home? If not, you’ll need to know how to fix
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Way Out West
IT LOOKED for all money like the weather at Burson Auto Parts Motorvation 38 would be typically scorching, as the mercury soared to 40 degrees on the Friday of the event. Mercifully though, the Freo Doctor got up for work early on Saturday and Sunday
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Slam Dunk
BORIS Pacey’s Doorslammer HQ Sandman ute made waves during its unveiling at Perth’s Motorvation 38 last month. We shared images of the Hemi-powered machine just moments after the covers were pulled off, and here’s what the punters had to say. Joe Dem
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