Street Machines Memories of 80's

[Mad_Max]

What was your all time fav Car of the 1980's ??
I would have to say Howard Astills blue Rock Falcon

[xagsjoe]

Gary Satara's Ovakil! Mate what a car.

But there were so many I loved and I only get to pick one :(

Oh well another was Cristous(sp) XY, Claude Lopino's XD and Vlado Rackic's XA all hold a tough spot in my muscle car heart!

[Dean]

Originally Posted by xyfmtjoe

Gary Satara's Ovakil! Mate what a car.

But there were so many I loved and I only get to pick one :(

Oh well another was Cristous(sp) XY, Claude Lopino's XD and Vlado Rackic's XA all hold a tough spot in my muscle car heart!

You hit the nail on the head.

Definately "OVAKIL", Inspired me to put the Blower on my car

and Chris Cristous XY GT. Inspired me to paint my car Blue.

Two great cars

Cheers

[fat289]

Thats an easy 1

The "ORIGINAL" burnout king

John Peterson's Black Mk3 Zepher

Windsor power

6000rpm in 3rd gear yeah baby

[xbcool]

I know its from the dark side.
Rex websters fj some people know it as HIGHTECH or THE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION.
this car was light years ahead of its time, and I believe the editor of Extreme magazine has it and is planing on restoring it.
there is definatly some sensational cars out there this one stand out for me as rex was doing 20years ago what people are doing now

[ratter]

For detail you can not go past Ron Barclays HQ ute

For something different and original a HQ ute called Blowbak

For something wild at the time Rob Beauchamps prostock VL Calais

For toughness in it's era Peterrsons black Zephyr

[SNB05T]

from the dark side anthony fabris black vl group a walkinshaw, fitzy's fc holden,
chris cristous xy, gary meyers mustang, its before the 80's but if anyone can remember the dark blue xa panelvan "misty blues". too many others to think of at the moment :

[BlackBa]

Burn out King Fat Jack Peterson. At Heathcote in the late 70s full 1/4 mile burnout do a u turn and smokem all the way back down the strip. In racing he was always a tough competitor. In real life, damn good bloke to have on your side.

[irsa76]

Ron Barclays HQ ute for sure. So subtle it's not funny.

[apolloxbgt]

The recaro(romano?) convertable ea was preety cool :,it was well ahead of it's time,I think ford actually "borrowed" some of the syling cues for later models.

Aside from that, the usual suspects,Christou,Beauchamp,Astill.

Does anyone remember the green xd/e with an efi clevo and simmons in one of the summernats top tens in the eightys?

What about the yellow with graphics,mechanicly injected xb sedan that was reborn about 10 times?

One of my all time favourites,although I think it was early 90's,was the charcol esp "eathdt".It rode on fr 18's and would drive to calder and run 11's,and drive home again.

[XD 351 Ute]

Originally Posted by apolloxbgt

Does anyone remember the green xd/e with an efi clevo and simmons in one of the summernats top tens in the eightys?

Ah, that would be the XD built by Mark Sgaravizi?? (Spelling... sorry Mark) that had the '88 Nats' plate, Methanol Madness.
Yep, I have to vote that car, closely followed by the Mad Max Interceptor that was rebuilt, but has since gone to the UK.

A few people have mentioned a lot of the Fords I've liked from Street Machine, and I have a whole bunch of the big full size posters bought from Summernats 8 or so.
They will go up in my shed if ever I build it!
The '80's and '90's were great years for some real neat Ford street machines.

Ed

[2011G6E]

Plenty of favorites from back in those days...got all the mags from back then.
Even have issue number one of "Street Machine". It started out as "Van Wheels", then went to "Van Wheels" with a tiny "& Street Machines" underneath the header, then it went to "Street Machine" with "Van Wheels" in small font, then dropped the "Van Wheels" part altogether.

Lot of great cars, lot of great memories...the end of the Ford clevo, the "V8's Till 98" campaign everyone signed to send in petitions to Holden, the articles when turbos started to become "the big thing" (and didn't people start to complain after a few issues..."what the hell is with all the turbo crap? No one needs to know that rubbish!"). Articles on rudimentary aftermarket fuel injection systems...those were the days.

Headlines about the "amazing" outputs of factory SS Commodores that were less than a lot of four cylinder cars nowadays...

[coasty]

Originally Posted by XD 351 Ute

Ah, that would be the XD built by Mark Sgaravizi?? (Spelling... sorry Mark) that had the '88 Nats' plate, Methanol Madness.
Yep, I have to vote that car, closely followed by the Mad Max Interceptor that was rebuilt, but has since gone to the UK.

A few people have mentioned a lot of the Fords I've liked from Street Machine, and I have a whole bunch of the big full size posters bought from Summernats 8 or so.
They will go up in my shed if ever I build it!
The '80's and '90's were great years for some real neat Ford street machines.

Ed

I posted these pics on Facebook last night and spoke with mark and a few others.
I took these at Summernats.

[protd]

owen webs blue xy wild thing classic pro streeter..

[rag top]

One HO to Go, Ovakil, WOG007... there was quite a number of favorites.

[smally289]

<<<<< This car! Chris Christou's XY was in the very first copy of Street Machine that I ever bought. Was 1983 or 1984 I think.
What about the yellow 69 Mustang with a Chev in it, memorable for all the wrong reasons!

[gravelrash]

alan flemings hg come vk motorvator panel van (wonder where it ended up)
peter fitzpatricks brougham
steve leerenvelds blown xb sedan
the castrol coupe

[RspecAU]

Originally Posted by smally351

<<<<< This car! Chris Christou's XY was in the very first copy of Street Machine that I ever bought. Was 1983 or 1984 I think.
What about the yellow 69 Mustang with a Chev in it, memorable for all the wrong reasons!

Thats one of my favorites. If i remember correctly he was in an add for Egar tyers with the slogan "Real Men Smoke Egars".

[MRJUCY]

Another one for OVAKIL

[CobraLeMans]

Guess i'll have to vote for the cover car of March '86 which my old man built called King Henry. It was a black XD/F with a 472 cube BB. He also had a Turbo EA back in '88 called Future Shock.

My most memorable car from back in the day would definately be Alley Cat if anyone remembers that?

Ovakil was a solid looking car but everytime I saw it in person it required the use of a tow truck.

Loved the Castrol Coupe, still remember the day the new owner was handed the keys at the Street Machine State Nationals '86.

For me the toughest early car was a sqaure red Torana with a cross-ram injected Keith Black engine, or Sledgehammer which was a blown blue XC Coupe I think.

[irsa76]

Originally Posted by CobraLeMans

Guess i'll have to vote for the cover car of March '86 which my old man built called King Henry. It was a black XD/F with a 472 cube BB. He also had a Turbo EA back in '88 called Future Shock.

My most memorable car from back in the day would definately be Alley Cat if anyone remembers that?

Ovakil was a solid looking car but everytime I saw it in person it required the use of a tow truck.

Loved the Castrol Coupe, still remember the day the new owner was handed the keys at the Street Machine State Nationals '86.

For me the toughest early car was a sqaure red Torana with a cross-ram injected Keith Black engine, or Sledgehammer which was a blown blue XC Coupe I think.

I remember the EA! Dark blue with the factory body kit on polished Simmons. The engine bay looked like a damm mirror factory. Iirc the same issue had a feature on a pink Ford T bird prostreeter from Amercia, might have been a best of issue actually.

[CobraLeMans]

Originally Posted by Mr Stationwagon

I remember the EA! Dark blue with the factory body kit on polished Simmons. The engine bay looked like a damm mirror factory. Iirc the same issue had a feature on a pink Ford T bird prostreeter from Amercia, might have been a best of issue actually.

Yeah thats the car!
I think the mag you are refering to is the second edition of Roaring Fordies magazine on which it was the cover car.

[MickyB]

Blowback was my favourite, although I decided that in the early 90's reading through Dad's old mags.

[geckoGT]

Originally Posted by MickyB

Blowback was my favourite, although I decided that in the early 90's reading through Dad's old mags.

Blowback gets my vote, if for no other reason than the innovation of it. From memory a blown big block in the back and a mild 253 in the front to kick it into life. No reason at all for two donks but sometimes excess is the best.

Ovakill must also get a honourable mention. One of my other favourites was a deep metallic maroon HK Premier with hot 350 chev, GTS guards and a very well done conversion to 4 square headlights taken form a Leyland, I can not remember what it was titled but this car was the inspiration behind my own HK Premier and 350/Turbo 400 combo.

[jakkes]

LOL LOL why is every one voting for blowback the rare engine was not even connected to anything wast of time IMO

[2002auxr6]

if anyone has the street machine mag with the red chevy camaro on the front let me know, its my old mans cars and im looking for a copy

[RspecAU]

Originally Posted by 2002auxr6

if anyone has the street machine mag with the red chevy camaro on the front let me know, its my old mans cars and im looking for a copy

I have lots of street machine mags. Do you know what year it is in?
Cheers Mark

[Raptor]

For me it was Barclay's HQ ute, Fitzy's FC and Astill's Compact Fairlane

They all hit the spot with engineering, style and detail

[EB_5.0_WAGON]

My favourite would have to be Howard Astill's ROCK SOLID 3 which was the Blue XA(?) which he gave away at the 1988 Summernats.
The guy who won it was already on his way back to Sydney when his mates rang him. So he bolts back to Canberra to pick it up get pulled over on the way and explains the story to the cops and they let him off and commented that they will be waiting for him to return so they could defect it..... FAT CHANCE that car was engineered to perfection.

[Blue Oval Mopar Man]

Well there are so many I dont realy know where to start !

Used to be a black XC coupe from Parramatta, number plates "4MYLYN". It was So straight and well detailed it was amazing ! It was also stolen and never seen again ! I saw this car in person at the Wagga Easternats in "88" .

A few years befor that when Howard Astills Rock was maroon and ultra detailed . I loved that car better than when it was blue!

Anyone remeber Fast Freddy Cavcini's 33 (Ithink) ford coupe with the blown hemi at a few of the summernats ? Awsome car , crazy dude !

So many cars I dont know where to go next !