The Street Machine Of The Year hall of fame

THE 2016 Valvoline Street Machine Of The Year competition is well underway, with 16 of the finest Street Machine feature cars from the past 12 months in the running to win the famous trophy and a $20,000 cheque from Valvoline.

What makes SMOTY unique is that the outcome is determined solely by you guys. Judges’ points, quarter-mile times, horsepower figures and price tags don’t come into it – the winner is simply the car that captures the zeitgeist and claims the most votes.

And as you can see from the list of previous winners, you’ve chosen a wide variety of cars over the years. Of the 28 SMOTY winners, we’ve had 18 Holdens, six Fords, three Chevs and one lonely Mopar. Contrary to popular opinion in some quarters, you don’t necessarily need a mountain of metal hanging out the bonnet to be a winner – in fact, more than half of our previous SMOTY champs have kept their horsepower concealed firmly below the bonnet line. Hot rods and trad customs haven’t had a look in so far, but just about every other genre of chrome-bumper street machine has had at least one win, ranging from outrageous show cars to pro street monsters and street-neat cruisers.

SMOTY HALL OF FAME:

1988: Alan Cooper's HQ ute

1989 - Dave Bennett's HQ Monaro - RAT ATTACK

1990 - Ron Barclay's HQ ute

1991 - Craig Parker's XY Fairmont

1992 - Frank Piccolo's XB Falcon GT

1993 - Frank Rejtano's 1964 Corvette

1994 - Colin Townsend's FJ Holden

1995 - Darryl McBeth's FJ Holden

1995 - Howard Astill's XA Falcon

1996 - John Riskas's 1955 Chev

1997 - Bill Murfin's HT Monaro

1998-99 - Ed Brodie's HJ Holden

2000 - Alan 'Bundy' Lucas's HQ Monaro

2001 - Gary Myers's 1966 Mustang GM176

2002 - Mark Jones's 1957 Chev FAT57

2003 - Adam LeBrese's EH Holden

2004 - Steve Leerentveld's LJ Torana

2005 - Gary Myers's 1966 Mustang

2006 - Adam Barbaresco & Donny Kevric's HK Monaro

2007 - Mark Sullivan's HK Monaro

2008 - Rob Godfrey's HQ One-Tonner

2009 - Angela Dow's LX Torana

2010 - Graeme Cowin's Plymouth Barracuda

2011 - Peter Fitzpatrick's FC Holden

2012 - Adam LeBrese's XC Falcon

2013 - Mick Fabar's XR Falcon

2014 - Henry Parry's FB Holden

2015 - Nathan Booth's HR Holden ute

2016 - Chris and Colleen Bitmead's XBOSS XB Falcon hardtop

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2017 - Gary Myers's XA Falcon Hardtop AGROXA

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2018 - Ben Judd's 1964 Holden EH wagon

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2019 - Matt Morgillo's Holden HQ Statesman

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2020 - Aaron Gregory's '51 Chev ute Memphis Hell

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2021 - Chad Ribbons's Holden HD ute

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2022 - Jasmine Green's HiLux