Street Machine Rewind: Summernats 1988 GO-TO-WHOA

[@blairread4414]

Look How relaxed the Crowd Is.. no cell phones fighting for video.. ❤

[@STREETMACHINETV]

Wow, so many memories. I was in year 12 in high school, and Canberra seemed a million miles away, but I loved reading all about it in Street Machine - Scotty

[@danozism]

Showing your age there Mr Scotty! Lol. Only a couple of inches further down the dragstrip than I am!

[@danielwitham1791]

I was 2 in '88 and will never forget my first Nat's aged 12 in '98 after years of VHS footage and Street Machine reading as a kid. Love your work Scotty. You're a strong man and inspiring wrencher. Keep it up.

[@RebeccaKenworthy]

As an 8yr old who grew up in Perth, I felt the same... I swear, I spent as much time with my head in Street Machine magazine as kids spend online these days

[@danozism]

@@RebeccaKenworthy SM mag, Unique Cars, all the local car mags! I kind of miss those days

[@RebeccaKenworthy]

@@danozism Same. Your right, it wasn't JUST Street Machine was it? Ahhh, the good ol' days... 😂 Makes me feel old talking like this, but the good feelings from the nostalgia is undeniable... I actually watched the Go to Whoa from the '88 Nat's today, so many of the cars were really memorable cars from my childhood. Hero cars, like the Pro Stock VL that was still wearing it's (I assume) factory blue paint job and didn't have the mechanical stack injection setup from his Torana until the '89 Nat's... 80% of the field were these hero cars, it was so awesome to watch... @Street Machine- thanks for posting those old vids guys

[@cze33e]

RIP Rob. That Calais is my favourite Street Machine of all time.

[@benpipe5209]

That VL is on point for back in the day👌

[@bootn13]

When it was fun to go too.

[@Paul-666]

So many of those cars I remember seeing on the pages of Street Machine magazine when I used to buy the magazine religiously... great trip down memory lane.

[@robertmoffattrob122]

Real Cars

[@glennt69lol]

Hahaha this is my childhood 🤣 I was 11yo and me and my younger brother would hire these vhs tapes from video ezy for weekend movie choice - loved the burnouts at the ends of tape and remember being very interested in the wet t shirt section as a young lad 😂😂

[@Twenty_Six_Hundred]

Looks like fun and variety... Now it's just drug dealers with limitless wallets and blowers

[@danozism]

This is truly an awesome trip down memory lane. Nice one lads. More old school footage, please!

[@fernandoreis7363]

Amazing! We need more videos like this👏👏

[@jcr6548]

i wonder if these cars are still around?

[@lilmanshed]

Please find and post more of this old stuff. Its so cool to see!

[@IanL1]

An the memories, watching this on a mates old mans VHS called "Burnouts Blowers and Boobs" I reckon.

[@gregh6794]

I was there :) Awesome memories

[@chappo4845]

If I remember correctly, the lime green XD went straight into the fence when it was burnout time.

[@bushysadventures1845]

Good watching these past nat vids, how clam was it. Guess it was night when every one got rowdy.

[@mahcooharper9577]

Great days, pretty much all street cars. Wish it was like this now, was a real festival back in the day.

[@geotechtestingtesting7772]

I always knew I was born 20yrs too late,

[@chefcamsey1375]

Soo good 😊

[@lazarusdigital]

All the cars were lower back then.

[@oz2strokeman394]

That Stuart Bennet (I think) Holden Ute looks to have a VL turbo in the engine bay, in 1988 they'd only been around a short time. Anyway, got my attention.

[@southerndiy1]

Nice spot. That’s at 12:13

[@danielwitham1791]

It did indeed. Very few rb30 swaps at the time and that thing went far better than a 5ltr and even many bigger 8s of it's time (my cousin was his friend). A few years after this is when the engines really started to get heavily tuned into the 270-300+kw range and put in Gemini's, Torana, even KE70 corollas plus big turbo showcar and dragcar VLs. The nights on weekends in the mid 90s Melbourne suburbs were a symphony of GM and ford V8s, big T51R turbos, coming on late AF in skyline RB26s and fluttering RB30 turbo compressor surges over thumping sound systems.

[@southerndiy1]

Hard to tell from the video but anyone know what mods were done to it? From here it looks like a pretty standard RB30ET (can’t tell if that’s the stock crossover pipe or part of the AVO cooler kit) and sounds like it’s running the stock converter - a bit lazy off the line until it hits boost.

[@oz2strokeman394]

@@southerndiy1 I have owned the same VL turbo near 30 years and recognized the red cam cover, it looks like a stock crossover pipe but you should ask @danielwitham1791 coz he knew the owner.

[@RobertBruce-kf5ze]

Fuck me that song makes me want to take a flat blade to my ears hahaha

[@ba.skidderLOCKDOWN]

Way before i was born or thought of i was born 1995

[@adamperre4852]

That car was a beast back in the day still would be today if its around i liked it better in black then he changed it to maroon ish still looked tuff but i preferred the black look

[@clintonepps3666]

You have to ask where are they now id love to see all these cars again on the pad but imagine if superchargers were banned for the burnouts

[@Lawrence-uw6cs]

Burnouts and spear the spud vid next?

[@Miggy2j]

Go the rotor

[@RebeccaKenworthy]

I miss the old "Burnouts, Blowers and Boobs" vids from when I was a kid... Street Machine has gone way too politically correct to remember those days now... In a way it's a good thing, in another it's a shame and the end of an era

[@joelfrancis5391]

No traction control or tech back then.