Street Machine Magazine September 2025

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If you’re a fan of homegrown Aussie muscle – and let’s face it, who isn’t – you’re really going to enjoy the September 2025 issue of Street Machine, on sale now.

Aidan Karaivanoff’s epic Valiant Charger leads the, erm, charge, equipped as it is with a stonking blown Hellcat V8, three pedals, killer pro street stance and big ’n’ little Adelaide hubcaps.

Jim Georgalas’s HR ute is every inch the traditional street machine, but with the quality ratcheted up to 11. Exquisitely engineered, it packs a howling 768hp small-block Chev and is finished to an exacting standard.

Ford fans will froth over Simon Madigan’s XA hardtop, which is a drag car built to show standards. Simon is hoping to run down around the 5.80 Supercharged Outlaws index, but the coolest part? It’s powered by a 3000hp big-block Ford!

HDT tributes are the done thing when building an early Commodore these days, but Terry Vavitis instead chose to embrace the ordinary with his genuine VH Vacationer, and an epic retro vibe is the result. Oh, and it’s packing a fettled LSA under the hood, too.

We tag along to Mud Run in Gloucester, NSW and revel in the low-buck fun and good vibes the event always delivers.

Aaron Apps couldn’t care less if you like XY GT replicas or not – his FAKER plates prove that he owns it, loud and proud. It’s one of the tidiest examples we’ve seen, and is motivated by an ultra-tough 440ci, 870hp Clevor.

The Sines name will no doubt be familiar to SM readers and burnout fiends alike, especially those at the western end of the continent. This killer HJ ute was a Sines family project that now sits proudly alongside Steve’s KINGER HZ in the shed, with his 14-year-old daughter Lacey poised to take the wheel.

There’ve been plenty of events happening over the colder months, so this issue, we do a whip around the New England 900, Cooly Rocks On, the UteZ WB Run, the Sydney Hot Rod & Custom Auto Expo, and an epic HX Sandman Aussie road trip.

Darren Fosberg’s ’55 Chev two-door post is a stone-cold stunner, with just a hint of gasser about it that gives it an old-world charm.

“What the heck is that thing?” you may be asking. Well, it’s a one-of-one ‘Deutzenbarge’, powered by a 19.1-litre Deutz V12 diesel engine, which is being built from first principles in a carport by owner Ronald ‘Tewesy’ Tewes. Bad-arsery of the highest order!

Speaking of acts of bad-arsery, how about Arby shipping a stock-bottom-end LS over to the US, stuffing it in a Chevy Malibu, and proceeding to win his class at the Sick Summer drag-and-drive with help from some great mates?

You’ll find all this and heaps more in the September 2025 issue of Street Machine, on sale now!