Street Machines Memories of 80's

[gcg2503]

Jeez the memories..great thread - i still remember the cars

Rob Beauchamps VL for me

Howards XA close second

[smally289]

I remember cringing at the interior of The Castrol Coupe, with its Mitsubishi console!!

[The Yeti]

The classic Street Machine cover. Chris Christou smoking the bags in his XY


Sad thing is I loved this car but its the very reason XY mockups do nothing for me I cant explain it. (Check out the cover price)

It seems Craig Parkers XY was 91 so to late guys


And Rex Websters Humpy


I thought I should post some photos for those not old enough to remember

[InfernoSR]

Great pics... keep em coming

[TZENU]

I remember Tuff XY now!!! that thing was truly amazing! I think i saw it at summernats in 94 or 95

[The Yeti]

Is this the choped ute every one spoke about in the earlier part of the thread?


Again from the 90's but only just does any one have other photos of this van?

[BIG GAZ]

Hi, I am a bit late on this thread! My son just found some OVAKIL chat and was surprised to see it was that popular. The '80's certainly were a great time, cruising in OVAKIL down Parramatta Road was a real buzz and something that kids these days won't ever have the opportunity to do again. I still have it in the shed and is next on the list after my current Land Speed project which I am using the OVAKIL engine for. If I can work out how to post some pics I will put them up.
BIG GAZ

[rag top]

Originally Posted by BIG GAZ

Hi, I am a bit late on this thread! My son just found some OVAKIL chat and was surprised to see it was that popular. The '80's certainly were a great time, cruising in OVAKIL down Parramatta Road was a real buzz and something that kids these days won't ever have the opportunity to do again. I still have it in the shed and is next on the list after my current Land Speed project which I am using the OVAKIL engine for. If I can work out how to post some pics I will put them up.
BIG GAZ

What are your plans for the coupe Big Gaz? Good to hear it is still kicking around!!

[RSgerry]

i loved the Falcon Coupe they gace away as a prize. there was also a VC commodore with a dfrop tank that appealed, a Sigma (cant remember if it was a turbo) and a black XD with XF fronmt and rear tail lights, i think it was titled King Henry. at the time the guy had sunk about $80k into the car which blew me away.

[BPXR6T]

LC Torana by the name of Dr Hyde
Litre8 the red one with the SLR8000 paint and keith black
Was very much into toranas back then...

[BIG GAZ]

I need to finish my chopped XJ-S Jaguar for the Salt Lake for next March. I am using the blown, injected OVAKIL engine until I can afford to rebuild a twin turbo Jag V12. Then I can put OVAKIL back on the road with an engineers cert and be legal, finally. My 4 kids can't wait and either can I. It will be blast after 15+ years. The car did have a bit of a cult following as there were few blown clevo's and none with EFI at the time. Sometimes I can't believe that it ran with all the bits that I put together esp the distributorless ign system, EFI etc, all back in 1987!!

[BJ]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

Is this the chopped Ute every one spoke about in the earlier part of the thread?

That's not the same car. This one Scott built was with a new shell. The old madness was burnt to the ground when Craig gerdes owned it.

[lowriding]

Ron Barcleys HQ ute had mindblowing attention to detail when it appeared ,it was mild ,subtle , beautiful. BLOWNE an XB GT orange goodness just tuff tuff tuff ! 4MYLYN was as awesome as said ,Beauchamps VL , probably the beast of lot was Howard Bells LITRE8 Torana with a keith black big block

[Bad Bird]

I got to see Litre8 at Toranafest a few years ago. The car is amazing still!

[fordboi]

And another...... Ascot green XE, on gold simmons with 345 P7's on back and grey Recaro interior. Very cool !

[blackwood]

Chic still owns his Impala...I'm pretty sure he still uses it to officially open the burnout
comp at the 'nats each year.

Alan Fleming still owns the motivator. Last I heard he was look for sponsers for a
complete rebuild including a VS commodore front clip.

What about the first Street Machine cover car - "Alley Cat"?
Jag V12 in a Holden Panel Van. Apparently it's sitting in the owners garage minus drivetrain.
Street Legal was another awesome van. Still gets around.

Flip fronts where all the rage. Nearly every '57 Chev had one.

Anyone know what happened to the Dodge Daytona that used to get around Sydney in the 80's?
It was on the cover of SM and it can be seen in the background of a couple of scenes in Running On Empty.

[PHATAL]

Does anyone have any specs / pics of the one HO to Go street machine built car? My cousin has owned it for many years. I think he bought it from the guy that won it.

[Sprint XR8]

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[Nikked]

Originally Posted by PHATAL

Does anyone have any specs / pics of the one HO to Go street machine built car? My cousin has owned it for many years. I think he bought it from the guy that won it.

I work with one of the painters that worked on it...

[lowriding]

Also ROCK 4 the lilac compact fairlane was a masterpiece for its time

[JG66ME]

Brian Plankmans 6 in a row HO.

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by fordboi

And another...... Ascot green XE, on gold simmons with 345 P7's on back and grey Recaro interior. Very cool !

that was clauds car I think, I will have a look in a day or so for photos

[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

[irsa76]

No more then alot of cars from today.

[old_mate]

while it's not from the 80's, i reckon Ed Brodie's MR HJ is the one car that kicked off most of the trends we still see today in elite street machining, i wish he'd put it back together.

[The Yeti]

we keep talking about it but come on guys post up some photos

[gcg2503]

had every mag from around 1985-1989....went to london 5.5 years ago and the folks thru them all away

grrrrrrrr

this thread in bringing back fantastic memories - agree with yeti post up some pics!!!!!

Didnt they give away a fully restored red XT GT as well?

[Bearman]

Originally Posted by gravelrash

The Castrol Coupe now lives in Emerald Qld. Exactly the same as it was years ago.

Does anyone have any pics of this? Does the current owner get it out once in a while? It'd be great to see this one again.

[dsyfer]

For any Howard Astill photos (including some build pics) try http://www.howardastill.com