HOT GOSSIP

BABY LOVE!

ACE Street Machine snapper Chris ‘Tappy’ Thorogood, his lovely misso Sarah and their rad little bloke Max recently welcomed a new addition to the family – Violet Sky Thorogood. As you can see, she’s fairly adorable, and better still, she had the decency to wait until Drag Challenge was over before gracing the Thorogoods with her presence, despite being due a week before the event! Welcome to the world, Violet, and congratulations from everyone here at Street Machine!

VALE RONNIE WHELAN

THE Aussie car scene lost a favourite son in November, when Queenslander Ron Whelan passed away. Ron was most famously a long-time official at the Street Machine Summernats, but also served as president of Kustoms of Australia (Gold Coast) and a racer and scrutineer at Surfers Paradise. In recent years, Ron organised the car show aspect of Willowbank Nostalgia meets. You couldn’t hope to meet a friendlier and more-welcoming bloke. We’ll miss you, Ronnie.

NEXT!

HOW does this whopping 244-page issue of Street Machine feel in your hot little hands? Well, get used to it, because the February mag will be just as big! It has to be, because we’re bringing you masses of coverage from Summernats 33 on top of the regular spread of feature cars, regulars and tech. Speaking of feature cars, we’ll bring you a wild blown V8-powered Escort, a knockout pro touring Camaro, and a very angry mega-cube Torana, to name but a few. We’ll take a detailed look at a blown Coyote conversion into an XY Falcon, check out the inaugural Taree airport drags and – like we said – Summernats! The February issue of Street Machine goes on sale 30 January. Don’t miss it!