TOUGH LUV

WE LOOK BACK AT DAVE HEMSWORTH’S AMAZING FJ UTE, BUDGET-BUILT ON A CHEV LUV CHASSIS AS A GENUINE STREETER AT THE HEIGHT OF THE PRO STREET ERA

FIRST DANCE

AARON JAMES CAME ALL THE WAY FROM THE WEST TO TAKE ON DRAG CHALLENGE 2019, WITH SUPERB RESULTS IN HIS VG VALIANT ON DEBUT

CAUGHT THE BUG

REECE REYNOLDS’S VW BEETLE IS A LOW-SLUNG CRUISER THAT PACKS A PUNCH

377CI SMALL-BLOCK CHEV

WESTEND PERFORMANCE, CAMPBELLTOWAN, NSW

Red Centrenats Is Go!

All roads lead to alice springs for the first post-covid car festival!

Brock: Over The Top 2020

A life in the very fast lane

Home-Grown Hero

Morris Markovic built a humble xe falcon into a summernats top 20 showpiece in his garage

Blue-Sky Thinking

Ben Grayland’s modest plan for a nice, simple cruiser kicked off an eight-year snowball that landed his XR falcon in the summernats top 60

TOUR DE FORCE

MARK SANDERS IS ONE OF THE TRUE INNOVATORS OF THE AUSSIE PRO TOURING SCENE, BUILDING CORNER-CARVING WEAPONS THAT WERE ALSO PRETTY HANDY AT PICKING UP AWARDS

MOVING VIOLATION

TO SOME, DEFILING A CLASSIC HOLDEN WITH A FORD MOTOR IS AKIN TO HERESY. BUT FOR AL MCCLURE AND HIS TWO SONS, IT’S SIMPLY A SUREFIRE PATH TO SEVENS

IMPURE THOUGHTS

PATRICK LAWLER AND HIS MATES BUILT A DRAG CHALLENGE WEAPON TO RILE UP THE PURISTS

D-DAY

SPEED PRO’S MARCUS CRIPPS STICKS 1400HP WORTH OF TURBO BARRA INTO AN XD FALCON TO CREATE A SEVEN SECOND STREET MONSTER

DIRTY STUFF

SOMETIMES in this often complicated go-faster game, we end up involved in strange and interesting things – in this instance, soldering brass to aluminium. The method behind this particular job came to me several years back when I was given a very old textbook with the title Modern Motor Repair & Overhauling, Volume III. When I spotted a chapter in this book on welding, brazing and metal-cutting that also made mention of soldering aluminium, I got all interested and read on.

BRODEE ESPIE

ALICE SPRINGS, NT

AFTERBURNER

TWIN-TURBO V8 STREET CARS WERE A RARE COMMODITY IN 1988, BUT GRAHAM SCHILD WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME WITH THIS WILD VJ CHARGER

Dust Storm

Anthony Raschella’s ’72 duster waltzed through drag challenge 2019 without a cough

TOUGH NUT

GEORGE SEPAROVICH LIVES LIFE AT 10,000RPM IN HIS BONKERS VF COMMODORE SKID RIG, NUTTR

RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S FIERCEST NATURALLY ASPIRATED BURNOUT COMPETITORS BUILDS A BLOWN DRAG CHALLENGE CAR – AND ALMOST BECOMES SUMMERNATS GRAND CHAMPION IN THE PROCESS!

LIFE IN MOTION

THE MODIFIED-CAR LIFE IS AS MUCH ABOUT CREATING MEMORIES AND FRIENDSHIPS AS IT IS ABOUT BUILDING CARS

In The LIMELIGHT

THIS SHINING JEWEL OF AN AP6 STEALS THE SHOW WITH A ROOTS-BLOWN, 410-CUBE MONSTER UP FRONT

Economy DRIVE

DELUXE ROD SHOP BUILDS AN IMMACULATE ’32 ROADSTER WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK THANKS TO SOME LEFT-OVER PARTS AND PLENTY OF ELBOW GREASE

YOUNG LION

26-YEAR-OLD TIM POLSEN HAS BUILT AN AWARD WINNING HQ PREMIER THAT WOULD MAKE ANY STREET MACHINING VETERAN FOAM AT THE MOUTH

BRUTAL SIMPLICITY

UNDER THE RATHER UNASSUMING WHITE BODY OF MICK JAHNECKE’S TORANA LIES A THUNDERSTORM OF TURBO LS FURY

AXE GRINDER

STEPHEN 'HOT AXE' WILSON BUILT SOME INCREDIBLE CUSTOMS IN AN ERA WHEN SUCH THINGS WERE CELEBRATED RATHER THAN SCORNED — INCLUDING HIS ICONIC HT VAN/HK MONARO MASH—UP, HUNCHBACK

River Monsters

The 2020 Chryslers on the Murray saw Mopar mania once again engulf the twin murray river towns of Albury-Wodonga

Staying Power

After 41 years and the automotive adventure of a lifetime, howard nessen is finally ready to call his iconic XB hardtop ‘done’

Isolation Motivation

Sure, we’re in lockdown, but on the upside, it gives us plenty of time to lavish some love on our car projects. Here are some sm readers doing just that

The New NORM-ALL

A LONG OVERDUE CHINWAG WITH NORM AND VICKI FROM AUSSIE DESERT COOLER

IN THE RED 1999

IF YOU’RE NOT LIVING ON THE EDGE, YOU’RE TAKING UP TOO MUCH SPACE

THE LONG RUN

THE GEMINI THAT ROCKED SUMMERNATS 2 IS STILL WINNING TROPHIES TODAY!