Street Machine Australia – September 2019

LETTER OF THE MONTH

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE?

HEY guys, the mag is great, but one thing I don’t

understand is the online voting for SMOTY. It used

to be we had to buy the magazine to get a voting slip,

but now anybody, including those who aren’t regular

readers, can vote and get all his mates to do so, etc.

I just think it’s wrong that people who are not even

readers can vote.

Baz Hammond, via Facebook

HEY Baz, I hear you. It was pretty cool back in the day

when the only way to vote in SMOTY was through the

voting form stitched into the mag. We got sacks of

them delivered to the office! But these days, folks are

reluctant to get down the post office and mail things,

even when provided with free postage. Online voting

is a lot more accessible and opens it up to people

who may not buy the mag regularly but do interact

with our content online. The other bonus is that you

can read the story on each of the cars online before

you vote. – Telfo

MAJOR MINOR

HI THERE! I’m really enjoying the Street Machine Hot

Rod #20 magazine. Loved the write-up on Sally and

John Phillips’s Morris Minor. It would be cool if you also

did a feature on their lead sled Austin A50 convertible.

Dominic Flynn, via Facebook

I’M NOT normally a fan of blacked-out chrome, but

that 15NUTZ LJ Torana (SM, Jul ’19) looks fantastic!

The black really works against the crazy flaked red

colour, the interior is a great contrast and the tunnel

ram really sets it off. But unfortunately, you’ve only got

one photo of it looking ‘real’ – when did it become the

norm to take car photos in sheds? Cars can look good

in sheds, but for some reason they always look fake –

they look Photoshopped or like a car on Gran Turismo.

When I first saw TOXIC Q (SM, Oct ’14) at MotorEx

years ago, I fell in love and I knew straight away that

it’d be my vote for SMOTY; it’s a unique colour, but in

real life the car looks amazing! Then when you featured

it, it was shed photos. I reckon a colour like that needs

the contrast of green grass and blue sky behind it to

really show it off – I honestly think with the right photos

it had a chance at winning SMOTY.

I know it’s probably expensive to shoot every car

in a studio (most cars look their best in a studio) but

whatever happened to the old ‘photo on a nice country

road just before sunset’? Cars always look good just

before sunset!

Daniel Peachey, email

HEY Dan! We have our own studio in Melbourne, but

studio shoots are difficult to pull off for cars that have

special effects paint. We love outdoor sunset shoots

and do as many as we can, but they are difficult in

winter! – Telfo

YOUR STUFF

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