Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2025 i Street Machine

BACK in 2019, the Aeroflow World Fuel Altered Challenge was held at Sydney Dragway, with AA/FA race cars from both sides of the Tasman facing off in a nitro-fuelled display of true old-school drag racing. The event was supported by a full field of nostalgia cars and left a lasting impression on everyone who participated, including the crew from Vintage Gassers Australia (VGA). Spurred on by the memories of 2019, Simon Adrichem and Damien Kemp from VGA, along with Sydney hot rodding legend Joseph Rodriquez, dreamed up the idea of Bangers & Mash. The plan began as a trans-Tasman Vintage Gasser challenge at Sydney Dragway and evolved to include Nitro Funny Cars, fuel altereds and much more, with a total of 130 entries. Off-track, chrome-bumper classics, flame-throwing cacklers and rock’n’…

Conditions apply, see streetmachine.com.au/terms-and-conditions. Commences 10 October 2025. Ends 23:59 AEDT on 17 November 2025. Open to AU and NZ residents 18+. Only one entry per person. Drawn at Street Machine, Kingscliff, NSW, 2487 on 20 November 2025 at 11:00 AEDT. Prize: $5000. The Promoter in Australia is Street Machine Pty Ltd (ABN 33 672 316 951). The Promoter collects personal information through the competition website to conduct the Promotion and for other purposes. SINCE 1988, Street Machine of the Year has been the most prestigious accolade in our sport. You’ve only got to read the list of winners on the side of that iconic trophy to see that some of the biggest names and most significant cars in Aussie street machining have taken out the award over the years.…

UNLIKE some of us, Adelaide’s Davor Pribicevic’s shed isn’t full of a multitude of half-finished projects. His focus is honed on just one – a 578hp, SR20-powered Ford Escort RS2000 – and while it’s had the odd nap since 1999, it’s been turning the tyres longer than it hasn’t been. There was a time when Escorts were everywhere, starting out as venerable second cars for the household, then demoted to P-plater runabouts, and usually followed by the wreckers. Naturally, Davor went through a few of Ford’s finest small car during his misspent youth, and for every one of those, there were at least a couple of busted rear ends. “That’s how I found this,” Davor explains. “I had just blown the diff in my yellow Escort – I went through…

HAVING spent a fair chunk of his formative years immersed in the drag racing scene at Calder Park and Heathcote, Luke David had plenty of inspiration to draw from when it came time to start on a project of his own. But his heart was always set on a Silver Fox XW GT, having long watched an example of this iconic combo laying down solid numbers at the track. But while the choice of what to build was easy, finding the right starting point wasn’t quite as straightforward. Luke started his hunt in the mid-2000s, and he reckons he looked at more than 30 cars before finding the right candidate. Eventually, he found a white six-cylinder XW Fairmont to serve as a solid base for his planned makeover into a…

HOLDEN’S venerable Iron Lion V8 has seen a in popularity since the iconic brand was shuttered in 2020. GM-H fans can now pick up all manner of go-fast equipment for their Holden V8, including aftermarket blocks that swing up to 500ci, a range of early and VN-pattern alloy cylinder heads, bolt-on blower kits, and more. So, it was the perfect time to sit down with Damian Baker from BG Engines to get the good oil on building stout Holden V8s today, from mild to wild. Damo has been putting Holden V8s together for a few decades now, and with a complete machine shop in-house, he’s incredibly well-placed to discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of the platform. We focused on aspirated, street-based, pump-fuel combos, at three different levels of…

BARRA OF FUN NOAH MOSKWA VK BERLINA “I BOUGHT this VK Berlina stock-standard from an older guy off Facebook Marketplace in November 2024. I was just going to get it registered as a stocker and go to some car meets while I was on my P-plates, but that didn’t happen. Instead, I took all the running gear out with the idea of doing a turbo Barra swap. It now has exactly that, backed by a Powerglide ’box, and we shaved the engine bay and treated it to some fresh paint during the conversion as well. All the underbody was Raptor-lined, with everything either new or painted, aside from the body itself. It now makes 680hp – pretty cool car built by me and my old man in our shed.” REGAL…

AFTER 10 years of talk, it’s finally happening: Australia’s premier car festival is going global, with Summernats partnering with the Freedom Factory to stage the first-ever Summernats USA! Taking place 12-14 March 2026 in Florida across two world-renowned venues – the Freedom Factory and the neighbouring Bradenton Motorsports Park – Summernats USA will feature all the’Nats staples we know and love, including a massive cruise route, Skid Row, show cars, a Grand Champion competition, camping, a live concert, and of course, burnouts! Add to that both drag and roll racing on the Bradenton blacktop and a whole bunch of yet-to-be-revealed additions to the program, and Summernats USA promises to be a car festival the likes of which American audiences have never experienced before. Staging a Summernats event in the USA…

CHARLIE WAS VERY SPECIFIC; HE WANTED THIS TO STILL VERY MUCH LOOK LIKE HIS GRANDDAD’S HX UTE TOWERING ex-AFL star Charlie Dixon had a clear vision for the build of his grandfather’s trusty old HX Holden Belmont ute. “The goal was always to restore it to how it looked when it was tootling around the farm, just with a shitload of power under the skin,” says Charlie. After a mammoth nine-year build and a successful unveiling at this year’s Meguiar’s MotorEx, it’s fair to say the former Port Adelaide forward has gone and done exactly that. We first learned of Charlie’s penchant for fast cars while he was still playing footy, when he turbocharged the LS1 in his CV8 Monaro (SM, Apr ’24). That car has progressed into a deep-nine-second…

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CELEBRATING 11 years as the premier street machining event in the Northern Territory, the 2025 edition of Red CentreNATS, presented by LMCT+, continued to inspire attendees from far and wide. Drag racing, elite show cars, street cruising, burnouts and more were on offer across Alice Springs over four days in early September. Scrutineering for RCN cranked up on the Thursday, with tidy streeters mixing it with serious, meth-sucking monsters at the Lasseters Hub at Lasseters Centre of Entertainment, all vying for the ‘pass’ sticker that would allow them to motor through the streets of Alice with near-impunity for the duration of the event. There are few other places where you’re likely to see 1000hp monsters prowling public streets, and for that reason alone, Red CentreNATS is a must-see. That evening,…

DUBBO MotorFest was back for its third year in August, and the brief was simple: roll in, look sharp, and soak up one of regional Australia’s best one-day hits of horsepower culture. The Dubbo Showground again played host, with a layout that funnelled punters between breezy show’n’ shine lawns and the big pavilions stuffed with elite builds. If you missed it this year, the numbers tell the story: more than 1000 cars and bikes across the venue, 8500 people through the gate, and a stacked trophy list. It was a proper coming of age moment for the show and the region, despite the cold and moist weather. The event isn’t just petrol and polish, either. The crowds and entrants helped tip $50,000 to 10 local charities, which is the kind…

TO SOME, this FC might look to be a clean, crisp early Holden sporting nice wheels – and they wouldn’t be wrong. But those of us with a nostalgic lust for history and number plates will know this car as much more than that. David Dowling’s FC Holden, which we featured way back in the March 1994 issue of SM, was at the forefront of automotive technological innovation for its time. Those number plates weren’t kidding – this car was equipped with satellite navigation. Of course, sat nav is something we take for granted these days – even the dumbest of mobile phones has the ability to point you in the right direction and keep you there. But in an era when young blokes had to sneak a peek at…

To have your product featured here, call Kim Simonsen on 0439 422 285 or email kim.simonsen@streetmachine.com.au. 01 OVER EASY GOT a VT-VF LS Commodore in need of a new intake? Whether you’re chasing performance, fitting an upgraded camshaft package that requires more flow, or just after more induction noise from your standard LS, check out the over-the-radiator (OTR) intake kits from VCM Performance. Proudly designed and manufactured in Australia, these kits offer exceptional gains in airflow, throttle response and overall performance, while maintaining OEM-level fit and finish. Each OTR kit includes fascia and infill panels for a complete look, with options to suit naturally aspirated and supercharged set-ups. There are kits for both VT-VZ and VE-VF Holdens with an LS, with the option of removing the MAF sensor to suit…

BEN Neal from Benny’s Custom Works has run his seven-second, Barra-powered Toyota Cresta (SM, Jan ’21) hard and fast at drag-and-drive events in both the USA and Australia. However, for his latest project, a JDM Toyota GX81 Mark II family cruiser, he’s chosen a very different style of donk. “This project is pretty convoluted, because it started with two different cars and a plan to build a sister car to my Cresta, which was in the USA at the time doing drag-and-drive events,” Benny says. “Originally, this was going to be a 1000hp turbo combo with an auto, but the costs and timelines were blowing out, so we changed plans to build a naturally aspirated combo. I was never really in love with the GBS12-series Crown platform, so when this…

A MADE-for-TV remake of the iconic 1971 film of the same name, Vanishing Point chronicles the cross-country adventures of ex-army ranger and NASCAR driver James ‘Jimmy’ Kowalski (Viggo Mortensen). Jimmy, who shifts high-end cars for a living, decides to squeeze in one more job to earn some extra coin before his very pregnant wife, Raphinia (Christine Elise), is due to give birth. He’s tasked with delivering a ’71 Road Runner to New Mexico, but once he gets there, Jimmy’s mate and ex-crew chief, Mike (Geno Silva), offers him another job: driving a Hemi-powered 1970 Dodge Challenger to Utah. Naturally, Jimmy is only too happy jump in the Dodge, and hits the road. But when he receives word that Raphinia is in hospital with complications, he flips out and puts the…

JIM and Mike Ring, owners of the Wisconsin-based car-crafting workshop, Ringbrothers, should be no strangers to Street Machine readers. We’ve featured several of the siblings’ incredible concept car-style builds in the past, including the ‘Recoil’ 1966 Chevelle pro tourer (SM, Feb ’15); the Hellephant-powered ‘Tusk’ 1969 Dodge Charger (SM, Apr ’24); and the hot pink 1970 Plymouth Barracuda dubbed ‘Infected’, which rocks a blown Hellcrate Redeye mill (SM, Jan ’25). But their latest creation, a completely reimagined 1971 Aston Martin DBS called ‘Octavia’, is a cut above even by Ringbrothers’ exacting standards. And it all began with an unusual request from a client. “He actually asked us what we wanted to build, and we said a European muscle car,” says Mike Ring. “So, he went home and started looking on…

ANDREW ‘Simmo’ Simmons has long been a fan of all-care, no-responsibility, patina-style builds. This one, as you can see, is very different. “Mate, I need a shiny one this time. No patina. Something proper.” This was the build directive he gave his friend, Matt Smoors, for this HK Premier. “Patina’s easy,” Matt replied. “Shiny will give you brain damage.” Matt runs FST Motorsport and has walked the walk with his own projects, including his jaw-dropping VL Commodore (SM, May ’25), so Simmo’s HK was in safe hands. He wanted this one to be perfect; it was his holy grail: “I’d always dreamed of owning an HK Premier in Silver Mink,” Simmo says. “My business partner, Aidan, spotted it on Marketplace back in 2020, and within five minutes I’d bought the…

TO BE HONEST, I HAD MY HEART SET ON A VK, BUT I SAW THIS CAR FOR SALE IN MELBOURNE AND IT TICKED ALL THE BOXES STOJAN Stekovic’s VL Calais truly is cranked up to 11. Stojan’s taken everything good about one of the most contentious Commodore shapes of all time and wicked it up, making it the kind of street machine VL nerds fawn over and car fanatics – regardless of their creed – can’t help but love as well. “Growing up, I was surrounded by friends with old Commodores, most with tough Holden motors,” Stojan says. “To be honest, I had my heart set on a VK, but I saw this car for sale in Melbourne, and it ticked all the boxes.” The car’s stance and the fabrication…

CAR enthusiasts are generally products of their upbringing. So, if your dad drove a Kingswood, you’d likely bleed Holden red; if your mum ferried you to school in an XB hardtop, you might have sworn allegiance to the Blue Oval. Dylan Auton’s dad bought Datsuns, and so he’s been a diehard Datto fan for as long as he can recall. “My dad, John, bought a 1600 new in 1969, and turned it into a rally car almost immediately, so since then there have been Datsuns in the family,” Dylan says. “I’ve owned more than I could count, and eventually they’d all end up with rollcages and getting raced, as my family has a history in motorsport.” However, one look at Dylan’s latest Datsun should make it clear that this 1600…

YOUNG bloke Cooper Groom came to our attention when he entered his home-built hot rod in this year’s Hare & Forbes Machinery house Young Street Machine of the Year competition and ended up a Top 16 finalist. We got to check out Cooper’s eye-catching ’23 T-bucket in the metal and chat with him at our Sydney YSMOTY Cars & Coffee event (SM, Oct ’25), where we learned that the five-year-long project was a labour of love, with plenty of help and advice along the way from Cooper’s hot-rodding family, especially his pop, Greg Sainty. I RECEIVED THE FIBREGLASS BODY, MIRRORS, AND SOME OTHER SMALL BITS FOR MY 10TH BIRTHDAY AS PART OF A SCAVENGER HUNT When did the T-bucket come into your life, Cooper? I received the fibreglass body, mirrors,…

WANT your pride and joy featured in the mag? Just send some photos of your car (minimum file size 2MB each) and a few details of what went into the build to readerscars@streetmachine.com.au. CHRIS SMITH 1968 CHEVROLET CAMARO “I BOUGHT my ’68 Camaro SS online about a year ago, and I knew it’d need some tidying up. I got stuck into some minor rust and panel work, which was then high-filled and blocked down. My mate Jamie then sprayed the two-pack Baslac Matador Red paint, and it looks great! I then turned my attention to the fatty Chev. What sounded like solid lifters when I pulled the car off the trailer turned out to be a lunched flat-tappet cam and lifters, with metal shards through the oil system! So, Glenn…