Street Machine Magazine January 2026

STREET MACHINE January 2026 ISSUE ON SALE NOW!

Fancy some ripper reading to wind down with over the summer break? Then jam a copy of the January issue of Street Machine in your shopping basket, because boy, is this one a cracker!

On the cover is Brandon Zito’s seven-second, twin-turbo small block-powered LC Torana – our 2025 Drag Challenge champion. We’ve got a full standalone feature on Brandon’s Torry, along with ripper cover art from photographer Chris Thorogood and designer Povi Pullinen.

The Drag Challenge love-in continues with a mammoth 22-page coverage of the 2025 event – one of the biggest we’ve ever hosted. Our 10th-anniversary Drag Challenge had it all: over 250 cars, three tracks, 1500km of road driving, wild weather, and TIG welders being taken to pistons!

Another big Street Machine milestone celebrated in this issue is the crowning of the 2025 Enthusiast Motor Insurance Street Machine of the Year, Martin Pecotich’s stunning, ProFlo Performance-built HKTO Monaro. Editor Andrew Broadley surprised Martin with the trophy and $20,000 big ones thanks to Enthusiast Motor Insurance.

Our bumper crop of feature cars continues with this ’69 Mach 1 Mustang, which has given the royal treatment by the world-class car builders at Ringbrothers in the States.

We also have two more Drag Challenge 2025 combatants featured this month: Anthony Spadavecchia’s eight-second, Barra-powered XW Falcon ute, which won the Speed Pro Six-Cylinder class; and Aaron James’s big-block Mopar-powered Chrysler Centura.

We’ve also got Ricky Toms’s VH Commodore, which boasts 1000rwhp from its force-fed LS; the Subaru flat four-swapped COPDAT Datsun 1600 from the sex-spec era; and the return of the STOCK6 HR Holden, now with Toyota 2JZ turbo stonk!

Matt Barnsley from The Render Garage takes us through the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the champions at Precision help us quantify what makes a banger aspirated LS build, and we’ve got the full Street Machine Summernats Survival Guide, just in time for ’Nats 38!

Group that in with all our regulars, and it’s one hell of a book. So, head out today and grab a copy of the January issue, and we’ll see you at Summernats!

All this and more in the January 2026 issue of Street Machine, on sale now!