Street Machine (magazine)

Street Machine
The issues of Street Machine from 2009
EditorAndrew Broadley[1]
CategoriesAutomobile magazine
Frequencymonthly
PublisherAre Media
Founded1981; 44 years ago (1981)
CompanyOut There Group
CountryAustralia
Based inSydney
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.whichcar.com.au/streetmachine

Street Machine is an Australian automotive magazine published by Are Media featuring customised cars from every era.[2]

Content

Street Machine contains many sections, from letters sent in by readers, to articles on feature cars and technical issues. The feature cars are mostly Australian and American muscle cars from the 1960s to the 2000s, while occasionally a hot rod or rat rod will feature. Cars such as a Datsun 1600 or an Austin A30 also make rare appearances.

History

While Street Machine was originally titled "Van Wheels", its history can be traced back to the Australian Hot Rodding Review, or AHRR, of the 1960s and 1970s. By 1976, AHRR had collapsed, and a magazine called Van Wheels had replaced it. Van Wheels had an irregular publishing frequency and was destined to the same fate as AHRR, however Geoff Paradise, who at age 19 was Editor of AHRR before leaving to work at HOT ROD in the US took the failing brand under his wing. Paradise changed the name to Van Wheels & Street Machine for the first issue under his management. This first issue, named Van Wheels & Street Machine. cost $2, and sold 24,500 copies, compared to 60,000 for Wheels and 45,000 for Motor. For the second issue, the magazine was renamed Street Machine & Van Wheels, and by the seventh issue was just called Street Machine in 1981.[3] By this time, the magazine was selling well over 30,000 copies.

Geoff Paradise, founding editor, resigned as Editor-in-Chief of Street Machine in 1985 and went on to launch Performance Street Car, Fast Fours (& Rotaries) and Super Ford, the first one-marque magazine published in Australia. The level of circulation of Street Machine at the time of Paradise's departure was in excess of 50,000 copies. Paradise is regarded as a legendary but somewhat shadowy figure in the Australian V8 culture. The reason for this misconception is that he is not one to suffer fools. Paradise's replacement was a motoring writer from The Sydney Morning Herald, Phil Scott. Scott quickly put the skills learnt from time spent in newspapers into Street Machine – increasing publishing frequency from six issues per year to eight and introducing some one-off car giveaways, which included an original A9X Torana and a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III. This caused sales to reach 120,000 in September 1987. However, that was all to change.

In 1988, Street Machine started supporting Chic Henry with his then new Summernats Car Festival, by paying for the burnout pad, underwriting the event and signing up as major sponsor. The Street Machine of the Year award also started in 1988.

From 1991 onwards, Street Machine went into a slow decline, losing the number one spot to Wheels in June 1994. The publication continued and Street Machine had several different editors, although they had their eyes set on something similar to Wheels and nothing at all similar to Paradise's original vision of a serious, no-nonsense street-car magazine. When Street Machine started assembling the current editorial team in 2000, sales had fallen well below the 50,000 mark that Paradise had achieved in the mid-eighties. The magazine needed to find a direction.

Street Machine sales were up, apparently, due to a revamped presentation of the magazine. However, it is more likely due to people beginning to show enthusiasm towards the V8 culture, the rise of V8 Supercars (Street Machine had several articles devoted to V8 Supercars at this point) and a new dragstrip had been constructed in Sydney. Street Machine has been publishing monthly since November 2000, and now sells about 65,000 copies, and has over half a million readers as of 2006.[4]

SummerNats

Street Machine is the main sponsor of the automotive show Summernats, which is run at Exhibition Park in Canberra in Canberra, ACT, Australia and features burnouts, drags and car show and shines. Street Machine writes up a Summernats Survival Guide each year as well as a feature article reviewing the car festival, which includes winners of all the major and minor awards, Miss Summernats and a feature article on the Grand Champion car.

Street Machine of the Year

The Street Machine of the Year (SMOTY) award was established in 1988 by Street Machine Magazine. Each August, the staff of Street Machine Magazine vote for their favourite cars from the previous 12 issues and the top 16 become the SMOTY finalists. The finalists cover everything from pure street cars to hot rods, elite hall and drag-strip terrors. Street Machine Magazine's readers then put their vote in and the winner is announced in the December issue. The prize is $15,000 cash and a trophy.[5]

Winners

Past winners:[6]

Year Car Owner
1988 Holden HQ Ute Alan Cooper
1989 Holden HQ Monaro Dave Bennett
1990 Holden HQ Ute Ron Barclay
1991 Ford XY Falcon Craig Parker
1992 Ford XB Falcon GT Frank Picollo
1993 1964 Chevrolet Corvette Frank Rejtano
1994 Holden FJ Colin Townsend
1995 Ford XA Falcon Coupe Howard Astill
Holden FJ Daryl McBeth
1996 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air John Riksis
1997 Holden HT Monaro Bill Murfin
1998–99 Holden HJ Ed Brodie
2000 Holden HQ Monaro Alan Lucas
2001 1966 Ford Mustang Gary Myers
2002 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Mark Jones
2003 Holden EH Adam Le Brese
2004 Holden LJ Torana Steve Leerentveld
2005 1966 Ford Mustang Gary Myers
2006 Holden HK Monaro Adam Barbaresco
Donny Kevric
2007 Holden HK Monaro Mark Sullivan
2008 Holden HQ 1-Tonner Rob Godfrey
2009 Holden LX Torana Angela Dow
2010 Plymouth Barracuda Graeme Cowin
2011 Holden FC Peter Fitzpatrick
Michelle Fitzpatrick
2013 Ford XR Falcon Mick Fabar

Other Street Machine titles

  • Street Machine Commodores
  • Street Machine Fords
  • Street Machine Choppers
  • Street Machine Hot Rod Annual
  • Street Machine Holden Legends
  • Street Machine Ford Legends
  • Street Machine Muscle Car Legends
  • Street Machine Hot Holdens

Note: Street Machine Commodores and Street Machine Fords are unrelated to the two magazines of similar titles, Street Commodores and Street Fords.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Street Machine Magazine".
  2. ^ "Street Machine Magazine". Are Media. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  3. ^ Simon Telford (17 February 2015). "Vale Geoff Paradise". Street Machine. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  4. ^ Street Machine 25th Anniversary edition
  5. ^ "Official SMOTY website". Smoty.com.au. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  6. ^ "SMOTY Hall of fame". Carpoint.com.au. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

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