YOUR STUFF & PRIVACY NOTICE
Write to: Your Stuff, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email streetmachine@bauer-media.com.au. Make sure you include your address (not necessarily for publication). Keep it short and sweet!
WELL THAT’S A DRAG
I’VE been building a car at home (left) for Drag Challenge, but my mate just told me that this coming year’s event is fully booked! I’m a bit shitted, but I may as well ask if there are any stand-by cancellation policies in place for poor mutts like me who didn’t plan on entering until the car was fully built. I’ve put an HSV LS2 into a Centura in the shed, and it’s getting tuned up this week, all going well. Fits better than a factory six. Cheers! Michael Doviak, email
RALLYDORE
TEAM Bitzamissin has now successfully completed seven Cancer Council Shitbox Rallies in a row in our mighty VL Commodore (above), raising over $50K in the process for cancer research!
The car was originally a barn-find, kindly donated to us back in 2011 by the Kalleske family from Atze’s Corner Wines in the Barossa Valley. It was a little worse for wear, but after a bit of TLC we were away. The car has travelled well over 300,000km and we have done around 70,000km on the past seven rallies.
This year’s rally took us from Brisbane to Darwin and everywhere in between. The car went really well until we hit a rocky section that caused a hole in the fuel tank, the front headlight and spotlight mounts to come loose and a damaged front strut, but it powered on and finished with flying colours.
After a couple of repairs we are ready to go again for next year, including a new paintjob (we change it every year).
We have a Facebook page also if you have five minutes to check it out: facebook.com/ Bitzamissinshitboxrally. Scott Rankine, email
NEARLY THERE
THANK you very much for putting my story in the mag (Your Stuff, SM, Jun ’18). I am letting you know that the Thongslappers [that would be our own
Simon Major and SM mega-fan Redmond – check out their podcast at thethongslappers.fireside.fm –
Ed.] sent me a parcel with an electronic dizzy, some old SM mags and some other stuff. Then last week I got an email from a couple that are giving me a complete running big-block Chev and Turbo 400!
I still can’t believe it; I am getting closer to being able to skid again. I just need an electric fuel pump, shifter and headers.
So once again, thank you. Jamie Hudson, email
GENERAL IRRITATION
I THINK you should change the name of your mag to Street Holden/chev Machine. Seriously, nearly every story/article/advert/opinion and random pictures throughout the mag are of another Holden/chev.
Not to mention cover cars! As I look through your mag I can see usually two other cars that deserve to be on the cover, but they don’t wear Holden/chev badges. I can imagine the conversation around your office: “What should we put on the cover this month? Hmmm, how about this tough Monaro with an LS engine in it? Yeah, let’s do that; we haven’t had one of those for three months!”
Luckily I get my subscription for free. Come on guys, surely there are more guys/girls out there building equally as good Ford and Chrysler product, or any other makes? Nick Calabrese, email