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YOU MIGHT be familiar with this syndrome. It happens when you go for the first proper drive in your ‘new’ toy. That is, new to you, but in reality a few decades old. This is the acid test, the time you work out whether it will be okay or, as you secr

THOUGH THINGS may be tough for much of the world, there are still enough wellheeled enthusiasts out there to keep makers of custombuilt low-volume hypercars employed. One of the latest manifestations is this, the Hispano Suiza Carmen Boulogne. Now if

THE NATIONAL Motor Museum in Birdwood, South Australia, last month opened up a special exhibition called Holden Heroes, featuring many vehicles from what was the GMH historic fleet. The core of the show comes from GMH's own Holden Heritage collection

IT'S EARLY days and the entry numbers are modest so far, but the annual Dakar raid is for the first time offering a 'classic' alternative to the main event. Called Dakar Classic, the idea is you get involved in a reliability trial, rather than a flat

With the recent passing of John Harvey OAM, aged 82, the Australian motorsport pantheon lost one of its greats, not that the humble Harvey would ever have referred to himself as one. While he was a prodigious talent, Harvey was not a grandstander, ra

FOR THE RUSTED-ON Ferrari fanatic there are a several ‘trophy‘ cars that would be essential for the wish-list collection, but only a couple from this century. This is one of them. Clearly the model name alone – Enzo–might be enough, but really there

IT HAS five seats, five doors, is ferociously fast and fabulous. That sums up the latest Audi RS6 Avant 4.0 TFSI Quattro. Zero to 100km/h takes 3.6 seconds. That’s faster than the latest Porsche 911 Carrera. Top speed is 305 km/h. Yes, you read that

Last month we featured Holden’s GTR-X, that would have been the marque’s first venture into fibreglass bodied cars in 1970. By this time a Melbournebased Australian car maker by the name of Bolwell already had the runs on the board when it came to ma

FIND ’EM ALL on tradeuniquecars.com.au, or go straight to the car by SCANNING THE QR CODES AFTER 50 YEARS OF WORK IT’S A SURVIVOR YOU SEE this beaut-looking VF wagon and wonder why Valiant lagged behind Holden and Ford in the sales race. Back then wa

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Seventeen lousy laps. That’s all that stood between the Falcon XT GT writing itself into the record books and Bathurst folklore in 1968. But it never happened. You see 17 laps before the chequered flag Fred Gibson and Bo Seton were in the lead and st

GREG PURTLE spends his working life running a mechanical workshop in sunny Wonthaggi (Vic) and, despite being up to his elbows in the things during the week, still enjoys playing with old cars on the weekend. His journey with this XT GT started three

Most car enthusiasts – even the most rusted on – regard Citroen’s seminal DS as unapologetically quirky. Citroen’s then-owner Michelin intended it to be and is said that to understand the thought process behind it is to understand the French themselv

It was love at first sight – I was hanging over the rail taking photos on the first floor of Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building at the 2015 MotorClassica and this striking Jaguar caught my eye As a Best of Show judge I hadn’t had time until now to

In the late 1970s when Mazda whipped the covers off their latest rotary weapon, the RX-7, it was clear the design recipe was following in the footsteps of the original Datsun 240 zed car. A smallish two-door coupe with a long bonnet, short tail, rear

WITH RUST in the boot floor, spare tyre well, passenger floors and sill, there is plenty of work required to get my farm-find 1979 Commodore V8 on the road again after its years dumped in a paddock. I soon discovered there aren’t as many aftermarket

APPARENTLY THE brake lights on the Jaguar were not working. A kind, thoughtful elderly lady in a Mazda pulled up alongside the E-Type at the lights and gently scolded me for driving a dangerous car. Astonished I was, as the Jag was roadworthy when I

A CONVERSATION with a local bloke about the Covidpositive sting-in-the-tail of Lewis Hamilton’s triumphant Formula 1 year led to a wider discussion about F1, including its standout personalities over the years. No surprise that Jim Clark and Jackie S

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