Australian Muscle Car

If you’re a motorsport fan, you’ll always remember the first time you saw racing live, at the track. The first actual car racing I ever saw was at the Sydney Showground Speedway in 1970. It was a very exciting night for an eight-year-old obsessed wit

‘The Bend’ motorsport complex at Tailem Bend (recently renamed Shell V-Power Motorsport Park, see below right) is an impressive facility, to say the least. It’s surely the biggest and most lavish motorsport complex in the entire southern hemisphere.

The Variety Aussie Muscle Car run is putting the call out for entries for this year’s event, to be held from October 26 to November 1. While the route details are still being finalised, it should be a spectacular experience with the 2024 run starting

It’s arguably the most famous and (for Ford fans, at least) most revered machine in Australian touring car racing history. It is, of course, Allan Moffat’s Trans-Am Boss Mustang 302. This amazing machine, one of seven purpose-built Ford factory Trans

Greetings and congratulations on a great magazine. Re the article on VL Walkinshaw in AMC issue #141, they had an interesting history and I always liked them, especially that cool interior. My past cars were many and included a Torana A9X four-door i

Bryan Thomson was headed for a famous victory. It was the final round of the $100,000 Marlboro Sports Sedan Series at Calder on 7 December 1975, in front of a capacity crowd and nationwide TV audience. A showdown between the popular racer from countr

Ron Harrop continued to be in demand for his engineering prowess after hanging up his helmet, and in 1986 he came up with possibly his most famous innovation, the Harrop rear-end. He designed it on some napkins while flying to Europe to help Allan Gr

Dick Johnson has been famously quoted as saying that the only thing you get from looking back is a sore neck. But if Dick pauses to check the rear vision mirror on his own time in the sport during 2024, he’ll be reflecting on a mammoth 60 years since

In the early 1980s Kym Bonython formed a government department known as ‘Jubilee 150’. The group’s portfolio was to hatch ideas for South Australia’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 1986 and Kym, being a petrol head, couldn’t help but dream of hold

Yours truly was recently invited to visit the slot car manufacturer Slot.It at their premises in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It is not every day you get the chance to see where it all happens, especially when you are hosted by Maurizio Ferrari, co-owner of

Years before Toyota’s global Gazoo Racing – or GR – performance division arrived in Australia there was a short-lived local initiative that strived to add some character and edge to the brand. TRD, or Toyota Racing Development, was a name already wel

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Our old mate Geoff Wood (ED: who also authored our Glen Dix features, the second of which starts on page 76) has been at it again. This time, he’s done a model of James Moffat’s TA Mustang. He tells me it’s for ‘a long-time client’. I’ll let Geoff ta

Wow! Classic Carlectables’ FC Special in the latest colour combo looks amazing. I’ve made no secret that the FC is one of my favourite early Holdens and this one looks awesome. The 1:18 scale model features a chrome grille which dominates the front e