Who would’ve thought even five years ago we’d be able to say 10 – yes, 10 – cars had run over 1000hp in the Haltech Horsepower Heroes? This year just that has happened in the MPW Performance dyno cell, and it’s not even the finals yet. The top three qualifiers in the big dog Boosted…

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…

There 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…

UPDATE, 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…

There’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…

The 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…

The 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…