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Methanol Madness at Street Machine Summernats 37

There’s just 100 days to go until Australia’s biggest horsepower party, and it won’t be long until we start the new year in top gear with a new Summernats addition – the toughest cruse session you’ve ever witnessed! The team are unleashing the wildest street machines onto the cruise route all at once for a…

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Video: Street Machine Summernats 2!

From the Brute Horsepower VHS tapes we present highlights from Street Machine Summernats #2 in 1989. The video features some true legends on the mic, including Chic Henry, Ron Whelan and former Street Machine editor (and later Motor Trend supremo) Angus MacKenzie. And the vid is chock-full of legendary cars in action, including John Cannon’s…

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Video: Street Machine Summernats 1988 Go-to-Whoa

How good is this! From Brute Horsepower 2, we have coverage of the go-to-whoa competition at the very first Street Machine Summernats in 1988! Local hero Peter Fitzpatrick came into the event as the winner of Go-to-Woah at the Street Machine Nationals in 1987, behind the wheel of his ‘Broomstick’ HK Holden Brougham. The are…

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Video: Harrop-blown Ghostbusters ECTO-1 replica!

As far as movie car replicas go, some are tougher to source and build than others. You can make Pursuit Specials or General Lees all day if money’s no issue, but ’59 Cadillac-based Miller-Meteor hightop ambulances like the one owned by Haltech’s Nathan Clark are a painfully finite resource.  Nathan trawled the web for ages until…

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