{"product_id":"street-machine-magazine-september-2026-copy","title":"Street Machine Magazine October 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStreet Machine October 2026 issue on sale now!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe October 2026 issue of Street Machine launches straight off the startline with\u003cbr\u003eStephen Micallef’s LJ Torana filling the cover with 632ci of big-block Chevy grunt.\u003cbr\u003eThis freshly built beast is looking to set some records at Drag Challenge 2026, with\u003cbr\u003eover 1000hp naturally aspirated. You can learn all about it before the big event,\u003cbr\u003ewhich is coming up in late October – spectator tickets available soon!\u003cbr\u003eFor the Blue Oval fans, we’ve got Tony Marakis’s glowing green XY GT, which is\u003cbr\u003epunching out over 700hp. This Falcon is packing the best that modern technology\u003cbr\u003ehas to offer up front with an EFI 417ci Clevo, but it’s backed by an old-school Top\u003cbr\u003eLoader four-speed and integrated with the classic look of Australia’s most iconic\u003cbr\u003emuscle sedan. It also features on this issue’s poster, with the Melbourne skyline in\u003cbr\u003ethe background.\u003cbr\u003eKian heads all the way up to Far North Queensland for the 10th edition of Northern\u003cbr\u003eNats – three days of mayhem and madness amongst the special breed of car nuts\u003cbr\u003ethat inhabit Australia’s warmer latitudes. There was drag racing and show cars\u003cbr\u003egalore, but with $35,000 in prize money and a Summernats Wildcard ticket on the\u003cbr\u003eline, the burnouts were next level, as entrants went for broke for a taste of the spoils.\u003cbr\u003eWe bring you all the action and the results.\u003cbr\u003eIf burnouts or crazy quarter-mile demons aren’t your thing, we’ve also got Jim\u003cbr\u003eMcLaren’s beautifully built HQ Monaro, which won Red CentreNATS Champion last\u003cbr\u003eyear. It’s got the looks and the mumbo to take the fight to the best show cars in the\u003cbr\u003ecountry and win – and just wait until you get a look at that colour-shifting paint.\u003cbr\u003eFor the Mopar faithful, we’ve got Matt Dietrich’s VF Valiant hardtop that’s packing 6.4\u003cbr\u003elitres of modern Hemi horsepower. With extra-meaty rear rubber and a ground-\u003cbr\u003ehugging stance, this mighty Mopar is looking to take on Drag Challenge for the very\u003cbr\u003efirst time, and we can’t wait to see how it goes.\u003cbr\u003eThen we head over the ditch to the Land of the Long White Burnout Cloud, to see\u003cbr\u003ehow the Kiwis do it at this year’s Chrome Horsepower Festival. The event is centred\u003cbr\u003earound Hampton Downs Motorsport Park on New Zealand’s North Island,\u003cbr\u003econveniently located right next to a drag strip, which means they have drifting,\u003cbr\u003eburnouts, drag racing and a whole lot more, and we’ve got 10 pages of all the action.\u003cbr\u003eBrian Galea’s Mustang is sure to tempt show-car fans, muscle car fans, Ford fans, or\u003cbr\u003ejust anyone who loves cool cars with V8 engines. Abandoned in a Californian barn,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe car was shipped to Australia so Brian could undertake a rebuild that defies belief;\u003cbr\u003eit’s an immaculate build that is equally at home in the Summernats Elite Hall or your\u003cbr\u003elocal cars-and-coffee.\u003cbr\u003eWe’ve also got something for those who like their rides powered by triangles – and\u003cbr\u003ewe certainly don’t mean that in a negative way. Jared Romeo’s 1969 RT40 Corona\u003cbr\u003ehas been built with modern attention to detail but using some decidedly old-school\u003cbr\u003emethods. For example, the Mazda 13B rotary has been boosted with the help of a\u003cbr\u003edraw-through turbo set-up using a Weber and a T04 hairdryer. If you want to know\u003cbr\u003emore, you’ll have to grab a copy of the mag and check it out – it’s definitely worth a\u003cbr\u003elook.\u003cbr\u003eOur Young Gun this month is Joel Sammut with his cool 6.0-litre LS-powered UC\u003cbr\u003eTorana. At just 21 years of age, Joel might be young, but his dad David has been\u003cbr\u003earound the scene for a couple of decades, once again proving that building cool cars\u003cbr\u003eoften runs in the family. Who knew that a UC Torana could look so good?\u003cbr\u003eAnd that’s just scratching the surface of what we’ve packed into the October issue.\u003cbr\u003eThere’s also an in-depth look at the ins and outs of forged pistons; the return of\u003cbr\u003eDarryl McBeth’s SMOTY-winning humpy; Dan Case’s small-block Chev-powered\u003cbr\u003eDrag Challenge Torana; Arby chatting to John Vesnaver about his impressive seven-\u003cbr\u003esecond HR ute; and Brad Jenkins’ killer ProCharged Clevo in Mill Of The Month. 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