Australian Muscle Car

Australian Muscle Car is a fresh, proudly Australian publication dedicated to preserving the legend of the unique ‘Australian made’ Ford vs Holden muscle car heritage. From 1960s classic Bathurst muscle to the super sophisticated Falcon and Commodore performance cars of the new millennium and everything in between.

Steve Normoyle

Australian Muscle Car

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Vee-Dubble • Bryan Thomson’s famous Chev V8-powered Volkswagen – possibly the most popular Sports Sedan ever built – has been reincarnated, by the same man who built the original, and in the same Victorian country town. Peter Fowler spent three years building the car and will race it himself before handing it over to enthusiast Simon Pfitzner, who commissioned it. David Hassall inspects the beast and talks to Fowler about his (re)creation.

The last of the line • It wasn’t the final Falcon GT but it was the last of the original line tracing back to the XR Falcon GT – the car which marked the birth of what we know today as the Aussie muscle car. AMC celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Falcon model which gave us what some Ford fans see as the last real Falcon GT, the XB Hardtop.

A Coupe4 the ages • It was an ambitious plan to develop a high-performance all-wheel-drive Monaro-based coupe. It wasn’t a showroom success, but the concept worked, and 20 years on it’s a sought-after and distinctly different classic hot Holden. Bruce Newton spoke to the people behind the scenes at HSV and Holden who made Coupe4 happen.

Glory days at HRT • Ron Harrop retired as a driver in the early ‘80s but, as the second installment of our Harrop Muscle Man feature will show, decades of motor racing success lay ahead behind the scenes in Group A touring car racing and, into the ‘90s and beyond, the Holden Racing Team. Harrop played a crucial back-room engineering role in the glory years of the HRT.

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The fabulous Flagman Part 2 • Just when Glen Dix was beginning to think of winding down his involvement in the sport came the arrival in Adelaide of Formula 1 – and all of a sudden the flamboyant flag waver became an international motorsport celebrity.

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Best laid plans... • It was meant to be Toyota’s answer to HSV and FPV. But politics, personality clashes and economics all conspired to nip TRD Australia in the bud just when it looked set to blossom. Bruce Newton spoke to some of the people involved to unravel just what went wrong with this bold attempt to offer a distinctly different style of home-grown high performance.

TRD • 2007 TRD Aurion specifications

Muscle Stuff • Essential products for the Australian MUSCLE CAR enthusiast.

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