MAIN: Summernats 30 Burnout
Masters winner Steve Nogas
in his tyre-shredding Camaro,
KILLA-B, was on hand to wow the
crowd. There was an early hiccup
when the Camaro cooked the
starter, but after Steve swapped
in a new one, KILLA-B was soon
frying its rears and creating
massive plumes of smoke
01: The crowd-favourite burnout
demos kicked off at 1pm, with
Michael Jambor’s blown HZ ute,
FORCED, first up. Michael made
very short work of his first set of
tyres and the fans loved every
second of it. He was on again at
3pm and lit up the second set just
as quickly02: Anthony Strauss drove his
genuine ’75 HJ GTS Monaro coupe
to the Rod Shop Open Day fromBendigo. “I bought the car about
14 years ago and completed a 2.5-
year rebuild on it,” he said. “The
car is pretty much unchanged
from there, except four years
ago we put a hot motor in it.”
The HJ is now powered by a 355
stroker coupled with a Turbo 700.
“It’s pretty tough now I reckon,”
Anthony smiled. The car also runs
a 9in diff with 31-spline Moser
axles and Detroit Locker02
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HOT GOSSIP
TONNER CASH
THE raffle to win a WB one-tonner built by
inmates at Junee Correctional Centre has
been run and won, with a fantastic outcome.
A massive $78,010 was raised for the Junee
branch of Can Assist, which will directly benefit
the 70-odd rural cancer patients they have on
their books. The lucky winner was a Wagga
lad by the name of Brock Phillips – a diehard
Holden man and a third-year apprentice at the
local Holden dealership. We’d like to offer a big
congratulations to Brock and everyone involved
in the project. To watch a video on the tonner,
head to streetmachine.com.au.SPEED SHOP
WE have new merch for adults, kids and bubs
at Street Machine Summernats 31. We’re pretty
stoked with it, but if you can’t get down to
Canberra to nab some, keep your eyes on
our online shop, where we’ll have the good
stuff up for grabs by mid-January. Find it at
street-machine-shop.myshopify.com.NEXT!
AFTER this gargantuan 244-page opus? A
good lie down. But then we’ll be straight into
the February 2017 issue, with our bigger and
better coverage of Street Machine Summernats- We’ll also check out the greatest hits from
SEMA Show in Las Vegas (we ran out of room
this issue, soz), visit the last genuine race-
on-the-streets drag meet in Oz and check out
the drag component of the Lake Mulawa Rod
Run, held at Wilby Park. We’ll also pay tribute
to Eddie Thomas, one of the true pioneers of
Australian drag racing, and much more. On sale
18 January, and for more in the meantime, visit
streetmachine.com.au.
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