Mark Caruana found a unicorn when he stumbled across this genuine 11,000-mile survivor that had already been through one ground-up resto. A truly ‘only driven on Sundays’ situation, much of this car’s interior is actually original!
It was a quick build, with the final rush from painted shell to Summernats taking just three short months. Find a copy of the November 2024 issue of Street Machine to read all about it.
Al Vella is no stranger to drag racing or to Street Machine’s Drag Challenge. But his latest Capri build will decimate everything he’s achieved before, thanks to its monster 468ci naturally-apirated small-block build and light weight carbon panels.
Making a stout 1000hp, this little British coupe runs on 15x14in rear wheels and 315 radials. Despite all the horsepower and racing influence, the car has been beautifully finished, with the panel work handled by the talented crew at Image Vehicle Manufacturing.
My shoot was featured in the November 2024 issue of Street Machine.
Simon Kryger’s WB Tonner was a first for Street Machine. The magazine has never run a car quite like it on the front cover before and may never do so again.
Powered by a nitrous-sniffing 632ci big-block and underpinned by a number of drag-oriented chassis and suspension upgrades, this machine looks like it just got done with 40 years of tradie work… and in many ways it has.
Get up close and you’ll see most of the patina on this thing is legit. Original paint, original steel tray. Look closer though and you see the tray floor is now a digital print of a photo of the original tray. The brown vinyl trim actually hides a pair of Kirkey race seats and matching brown painted roll cage. The reverse-cowl scoop is covered in a beautifully executed vinyl wrap featuring matching rust spots and well-matched pale yellow.
The shoot was featured on the cover of the October 2024 issue of Street Machine.
Simon Fawcett and Karen Savage’s 1946 Chevrolet truck is a rare machine – an Australian-built ute that boasts numerous stylistic points unique to the model.
Built by the teams at Image Vehicle Manufacturing and Woods & Woods, the car has been some 12 years in the making and the results are incredible.
It’s also about the fifth or sixth car I’ve photographed from the IVM stable. The photo shoot was featured in the October 2024 issue of Street Machine.
Sorry folks, I’ve been a bit slack with updating the blog lately. Let’s get things re-started with some style here: Chris Palazzo’s killer pair of Mopars as featured in the October 2024 issue of Street Machine!
What is there to say about these two, except that both crawled happily enough through afternoon traffic to our shoot location and backagain without drama 🙂
Looking sleek and menacing all at once in their straight black paint, both machines grabbed bulk attention on Sydney roads.
In a world where most classic Holdens seemd to be powered by the now ubiquitous LSx family of alloy V8s, Garry Rosser’s delectable WB-fronted Holden tonner runs a beuatifully-detailed and supercharged 383ci Holden.
I travelled out to the Central West of NSW for a couple of days to photograph a few cars for Street Machine magazine and captured Garry’s newly-finished tonner at the same time. We scored some lovely weather and the warm afternoon light brought out the best in the candy red metallic paint.
The shoot appeared in the June 2024 issue of Street Machine.
I last ran into Anthony Saf some eight years ago when I photographed one of his earlier builds (also a VK) for the front cover of Street Commodores magazine. Both cars have distinct personalities, however both are powered by supercharged LSx-variants.
Whereas the last car was a comparatively subdued-looking gunmetal HDT-clad beast with an LSA-style forced induction setup, this latest build takes a custom Brock path – although it’s well-enough removed from being a Blue Meanie clone to keep things interesting.
perhaps the biggest element with this car is the use of gold plating and lowrider-style engraving, as you can see in the photos.
My shoot appeared in the May issue of Street Machine.
I’ve now had the pleasure of photographing four or five of the incredible vehicles that have rolled out of the Image workshop in western Sydney. This 1949 Chevrolet truck only highlights the ever-evolving and improving skill and vision that the crew are delivering.
Powered by an LSA V8 and playing host to just about every electrical convenience you could hope for, this classic truck sits at the peak of Australian custom car building.
My photoshoot appeared in the May 2024 issue of Street Machine.
Off the road for 19 long years after a catastrophic engine failure on the burnout pad at Kandos, Jason Mackenzie’s brilliant candy green 1967 Chevrolet Camaro makes a stunning return to the scene – bigger and better than ever.
My photo shoot on the car appeared in the April 2024 issue of Street Machine magazine. The attention to detail throughout the entire car made the shoot a great experience and I reckon it came out looking fine in print.
Powered by a astoking 8/71-blown 489ci big-block, it’s a monster machine that sacrifices nothing in the way of aesthetics for horsepower.
Sometimes things are just meant to be. Originally commissioned to photograph Eddie and Younan’s Barra-powered Falcon for the May issue of Street Machine, Eddie casually dropped into conversation the existence of “my other car”.
What exactly WAS that other car? Oh, just a twin-turbo big-block-powered HQ Monaro making over 1700hp and capable of some 2000!
A quick chat with the team at SM and all of a sudden I had a two-car shoot on my hands – and the result turned out very nicely.