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Buyer’s guide: Late-model crate engines

Here’s the hottest late-model crate motors available right now – including some of the wildest bent-eights Detroit has ever offered!

Mark Jones's SMOTY-winning FAT57 Chev

If there was ever a car that epitomised the transition from family hack to glory, it’s Mark Jones’s FAT57

Greg Thornton's LS-powered FJ Holden

We caught up with Greg Thornton from Western Australia at the recent Gazzanats in Darwin

Rob Godfrey's SMOTY-winning HQ One Tonner

Always built as a goer, it was the driving events that got this 2008 Summernats Grand Champion over the line

Milton Adey's 'Hawkeye' Ford Pinto

Dean Kubler breathed life into one of Australia's most iconic drag cars - and now it is up for auction

Mark Sullivan's SMOTY-winning HK Monaro

Mark Sullivan has had a string of incredible cars featured in Street Machine, including this blown, mini-tubbed HK Monaro which was also the 2007 winner of Street Machine of the Year

Chopped HQ Holden: TOXICQ

This is what happens when elite chopper builder Lou Ackovski had a crack at a HQ Holden, he built this insane big-block HQ Holden masterpiece

355-powered EJ Holden wagon

This sweet EJ has been built in a rorty, but composed cruiser

Behind the scenes of Discovery Channel's 'No Prep Kings'

Arby heads Stateside to take us behind the scenes of an episode of Discovery Channel's 'No Prep Kings'

'Cusso' Bill Noach's blown Y-block powered 1930 Ford coupe

Great hot rods are reflections of their builders’ personalities — just like this Model A Ford

Gary Myers's SMOTY-winning 'Silver Bullet' Mustang

Gary Myers's iconic 'Silver Bullet' Mustang won multiple trophies on its debut in 2005, including Summernats Grand Champion and Street Machine of The Year

Jeff Jennings's blown, Trans Am fronted HQ

Flashback: Blown HQ meets Trans Am in Jeff Jennings's black monster '73 Premier

Readers' project cars in the build

We check out some of our readers' works in progress from the October 2022 issue of Street Machine

Adam LeBrese's SMOTY-winning EH Holden sedan delivery

Adam LeBrese's custom EH Holden took out the SMOTY award back in 2003

Blown V8-powered Lotus Cortina Tribute

It looks like a Lotus Cortina, but hang on - they never came with a blown V8, did they?

Barra-swapped 1966 Mustang fastback

Justin Stephenson went searching for a new rig to Barra-swap and returned from his quest with a 10-second Mustang fastback

Frank Rejtano's SMOTY-winning 1964 Corvette

The first American car to win Street Machine of the Year was Frank Rejtano’s insane ’64 Corvette Stingray. Here’s what we wrote about it back in the July/August 1993 edition of Street Machine

Deborah Peters's Holden HR panel van

Deborah Peters from Wanneroo, Western Australia, has been a revhead since she was 16 years old

673-cube XY Falcon - FAT XY

John Saad's street-driven Ford XY Falcon combines elite-level build quality with a 1354hp Sonny's mountain motor!

Barra-powered LC Torana headed to Drag Challenge

Mark Whitla and Darby Hamilton are taking the ex-McClure Barra LC Torana to Drag Challenge

Sleeper: Turbo LS-powered HT Holden

Ricky Fenwick took his HT Kingswood from grandma-spec to 1000hp monster in just a month

Geoff Seiter's 434-cube XY Falcon

An automotive love sacrificed three decades ago spurred Geoff and Jo Seiter to go all-out on this stunning, dead-straight XY Falcon