LETTER OF THE MONTH

SPINNING PLATES

HAPPY New Year! Congrats for another excellent Street Machine for January 2021.

It was great to see Peter Hansen was able to keep his WEPN rego plates. Finally, a victory for common sense – and then poor Stephen Sherry cops the same treatment! What next? Helicopter parents offended by the TANTRM plates on John Dennis’s Escort (below)? Surely the DSTROYA rego plates on the Monaro on page 94 are inciting violence? The plate that offended me the most was JOYRIDE (right) on Terry Blanchard’s Corolla on page 14 – it’s inferring that Joy is the town bike! Ridiculous!

One thing that intrigued me though was something in the article about Steve Roussis’s XY Falcon. In the caption for ‘Exterior’, it says: “Personal touches see extended chrome front windscreen surrounds matching the grille...” Extended how? All Falcons, and Fairlanes, have a chrome piece between the windscreen and the door gutter, as seen on Matt Mcdonald’s XW on page 139.

Anyway, keep up the great work!

Phil Minns, Corop, Victoria

HEY mate, really glad you enjoyed the January mag; we were pretty stoked with it ourselves. You’re spot-on about the windscreen surround on Steve’s XY though. That was an error we should have picked up in the editing process. Consider our wrists duly slapped! – Broads

DRIVE-IN MOVIE

GOTTA say, the Fanging Flick for January, Dead End Drive-in (left), is one of my go-to movies. It is a bit nostalgic for me too, as at the time I was living in Matraville, not far from the old drive-in that features in the film.

I remember one night sitting down to dinner with my mother and we both jumped at the sound of an explosion from the drive-in while they were shooting the movie – it rumbled the house! I was 15 at the time, and I used to ride my bike past there with my mates. We would stare in at all the cars and talk about what we heard that night. The main street, Bunnerong Road, was dressed up, and the Caltex servo (where CV Performance was located) was all decked out to look messy and post-apocalyptic.

It was sad to see the drive-in go. I used to go there with my mother and her friend when he drove down to Sydney.

Marty Burgess, email

REV LIMITED?

I WOULD like to see an article by yourselves or maybe a ‘sister publication’ whereby you could address what the outputs are for ‘around town/ on the road’ driving for all engine variants. After all, most of us live in the 2000-3000rpm area, not Fast & Furious territory. I’m sure we could get a surprise from some ‘high-output’ engines that are asleep at lower levels.

Brian Dirou, via Facebook

TOP 40

I LOVE the magazine – happy we are getting 13 issues a year! Are there any plans to do a poster of all the covers over the past 40 years like the one you guys did for the 30th (below) and 20th anniversary issues? Keep up the great work!

Curtis Nikora, email