Street Machine Magazine October 2025

STREET MACHINE OCTOBER ISSUE ON SALE NOW!

Showstopping Datsun 1200 ute heads up a stellar October 2025 Street Machine!

A Datsun on the cover of Street Machine? When it’s powered by a tough, boosted LSA, has Summernats Top 20 credentials, and is draped in attention-grabbing HOK Lunar Yellow paint, then why the hell not? Clayton Gow’s Datto 1200 ute is no shrinking violet, with an exquisite level of detail, howling Warspeed-built blown donk and a killer stance.

This issue we’ll also meet our 2025 Hare & Forbes Machineryhouse Young Street Machine of the Year winner and runners-up, and check out the celebratory cars-and-coffee events we held in a bunch of major cities all over Australia.

Paul Johnston’s stunning VK Commodore is a refreshing twist on a very popular theme. It’s a Blue Meanie tribute, but not as we know it, featuring a Lexus blue duco, Schott billets, custom interior and an ITB-fed 355ci Holden bent-eight.

Built to send tyres to bastard hell and look good doing it, Joe Thring’s utterly flawless VF burnout car sings all the way to 8500rpm and makes bulk horsepower, but it wouldn’t look out of place rubbing shoulders with the show-car crowd, either.

We take an intriguing look behind the scenes as Street Machine’s own Matty Hull is tasked with managing an entry in the Bathurst 6-Hour at Mount Panorama.

A ’68 Camaro has to be one of the all-time greatest muscle car shapes, and Ben Fink has done a beaut job of transforming his into a 582-cube fatty-powered pro touring masterpiece. 

With Street Machine Drag Challenge just around the corner, we take a look at some of the emerging contenders for the event.

Steven Harper used to own a Torana when he was a young bloke, and always harboured a desire to buy and build another one. This Superstars-quality LX is the result.

This is the second appearance in the pages of Street Machine for Brad McGill’s Clevo-powered F100, after he sold it off, bought it back, pulled it apart and made it even better than it was before.

This Volvo wagon might look like it’s owned by your high school art teacher, but the sneaky bugger is packing a 600hp Barra – one of the sleepiest sleepers we’ve ever come across.

You’ll find all this and more in the October 2025 issue of Street Machine – on sale now!