The Elite awards at Street Machine Summernats are the pinnacle awards for show car judging at the event. Just making it into the Top 60 is a massive achievement, but making either the Top 10 or Top 20 elite list is something else again. And from amongst this group, only one car is awarded the…
Read MoreDay two of Street Machine Summernats 37 was one for the ages! The Pro Burnout qualifying showdown was intense, the action on the dyno was thrilling and the Fringe Festival in Braddon was a vibe. Add in drifting, cruising, skid row and a massive concert and we had a day where it was literally impossible…
Read MoreTyres meet a violent demise at the hands of the country’s best burnout drivers, competing for $50K. Friday’s Pro Burnout qualifying lit up the Castlemaine Rod Shop burnout pad in textbook conditions – a blue, blazing Canberra sky and still air that allowed plumes of smoke to linger over the EPIC complex and engulf the…
Read MoreThere aren’t many diesel drinking machines at Street Machine Summernats, let alone under the skin of vehicles like Adam Wood’s 1948 Austin K2 truck. While she may look like an honest but asthmatically slow girl from the outside, underneath is a very different story. Peep your head inside the interior and you’ll get the first…
Read MoreUPDATE, January 3 2025: Jay Duca’s wicked 13B-swapped Mazda Parkway bus has made it to Summernats, after a mammoth thrash right through the Christmas break to get it ready for debut in Canberra this weekend. Photos: Thanks to RJ Media “I was doing 17 hour days leading up to the 27th when it left on…
Read MoreThere’s plenty of crowd favourites already packing into Canberra for Street Machine Summernats 37, but one that really caught our eye is John Stoddart’s mud running, Mad Max-esque 1951 Ford, aka a twin-spinner “I’ve had it for about for years, I got it from a mate who saved it from a farm, it was a…
Read MoreThe Rod Shop burnout pad transformed into a battleground during the first day of Street Machine Summernats 37 as 27 hopefuls took to the pad during the Wildcard Shootout on Thursday afternoon. Competition was fierce, and rightfully so, with three spots to the Pro Burnout series up for grabs. Securing a win puts drivers into…
Read MoreThe Meguiar’s Great Uncover was so good at this year’s Street Machine Summernats 37, we’ve split our coverage of the unveiled cars into two parts! You can read part one here, and now you can scroll below to check out the rest of the killer metal that wowed a packed Meguiar’s Pavilion on the Thursday…
Read MoreThe Thursday night of Street Machine Summernats kicks off a mammoth weekend at Australia’s best car festival with the Meguiar’s Great Uncover, where sheets are pulled off the newest hotness to be added to the ’Nats Elite Hall honour roll. This year’s Uncover saw a bumper crop of 23 cars shown to the public for…
Read MoreWhat a day! From the moment the City Cruise convoy hit Northbourne Avenue, Street Machine Summernats 37 was looking like an absolute belter. Things ramped up several notches during the Last Chance Wildcard burnout comp, with Chris Orchard in BALLISTIC, Bryan Smilie in TIPNIN, and Brad Kilby in HAMMERTIME set to join the other finalists…
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