Street Machine Australia — June 2017

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I’VE BEEN LUCKY. I’VE BEEN IN THE RIGHT SPOTS AT THE RIGHT TIME AND KNEW WHAT CARS I WAS LOOKING FOR F ORMER speedway racer Bob ...

OPPOSITE PAGE: Bob’s got a soft spot for the Mooneyes Corvette. “I had followed Bill Warner when he raced a cut-down ’34 coupe a ...

LEFT: Bob paid $300 cash for what was left of the Johnny Anderson sprintcar in 1984. After trailering it back from Darwin strapp ...

THE ANDERSON SPRINTCAR HAS BEEN A 20-YEAR BUILD. I DID IT WHEN I HAD SPARE TIME OR WHEN I COULD GET THE PARTS streamlined and be ...

of my sprintcar and came back to Sydney that way. Then it sat here for over 10 years before I even looked at it.” Work was done ...

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WHERE OTHERS SAW RUSTY WRECKS, HUSS GHAMRAWI SAW OPPORTUNITY, MATING AN R33 SKYLINE CHASSIS TO A VL COMMODORE BODY TO CREATE A T ...

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T HERE’S no doubt the VL is one of the more fondly remembered early Commodores. The V8 reached ‘peak bodykit’ under Tom Walkinsh ...

PAINT To the untrained eye, it may look like a regular Walky, especially in that colour. But a closer inspection reveals it to b ...

ENGINE This engine bay is all business, although you’ll notice it’s also kinda weird, with R33 Skyline shock towers and a hybrid ...

044 fuel pumps, it stutters and carries on like a race motor, until Huss gives it a kick in the guts and it revs to life. It’s t ...

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THE NEED FOR SPEED IS A STRONG URGE, AND LAKE GAIRDNER’S SALT FLATS IS WHERE ADDICTS COME TO GET THEIR FIX EACH YEAR AT THE DLRA ...

“I T WAS like glass!” enthused David Freiburger of Roadkill and Hot Rod magazine fame. He was grinning beside Jack Rogers’s 1968 ...

MAIN: Peter Warren is a down-to- earth guy who takes a little to get talking. His P38-based bellytank is a simple take on the cl ...

LEFT: Carol Hadfield and Greg ‘Whoppa’ Wapling (to her right) are the brains behind the event, and they’re nice with it. Even at ...

Racing started at 8.30am Monday on two tracks. The main track is marked for nine miles, while the second shuts down after two-an ...

GUS Cooper, John Harvey and Darren Banks all work different shifts on the mines, so they passed the baton over nine months on th ...