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.

Luke West

Australian MUSCLE CAR

HSV confirms ZL1 and manual transmis ions for 2019

Hands on the Holy Grail • Bruce Newton samples the Holy Grail tuning kit on the last fast Falcon and exclaims ‘HO baby’. He also learns that it’s a pointer to Premcar’s big future plans.

Back to Lot 6 day

#17 Mustang wins in TCM

Familiar names in TA2

Classic Trans-Ams

Auction update

Big bucks for right-hook ’67 Camaro

Celebrating Dick Johnson Racing

Baskerville 1000

Auction update

The Clydesdale!

Bob Morris

Mark Mathot

AMC BEST LETTER

The Repco works GT-HO • It’s 50 years since the first Falcon GT-HO model hit roads and racetracks. To celebrate this golden anniversary we present the story of an early XW ‘Phase 1’ that played an important part in the development of the factory racing HOs. While its provenance is unquestionable, the car’s owner enlisted AMC’s help to learn more about its early history.

Repco: once a mighty empire

Three Fingers and the Police

XW GT and GT-HO Phase I • The XW GT and GT-HO Phase I turn 50 in 2019. To celebrate, AMC presents 50 reasons to love the first seriously muscular Falcon.

Carrot-fuelled obsessions

Gardner Camaro lives on • Frank Gardner’s ’67 Camaro Z28 racecar has recently resurfaced in the UK, meticulously restored to its former glory. The big Chev boasts a racing history that spans no less than three continents, with strong connections to Australia.

Shutter Speed

Ronspeak • We’ve featured some good storytellers in the Muscle Man section over the years and Ron Gillard rates among the very best of them. Gillard is known today as one of the Great Race’s finest privateer preparers and team managers, but this issue, in the first of a two-part profile, he talks us through his own driving career.

My Muscle Car

Your Car Here!

Locusts Locusts • The writer and producer of upcoming Aussie movie, Locusts, Angus Watts, explains how plans to ‘cast’ a Falcon hardtop in the vehicular lead changed when filmmakers stumbled upon an unspoken star in Mad Max territory.

Peter Koch

Slot car addiction

The odd couple • Some said pairing the pragmatic Larry Perkins with flamboyant Peter Janson at Bathurst would be a disaster. They were wrong. AMC chatted to two very different characters about their remarkably successful privateer partnership.

Washing Washing day day • Rub-a-dub-dub, a Torana getting a tub, and what do you think it will be? No butcher, no baker, but dust by the acre. And now it’s all washed out to sea.

Classic Catches • There were stars and star cars everywhere you looked at the 2019 Phillip Island Classic, the nation’s premier Historic racing event.

Torana magic

Steve Newton

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Mini Muscle

The last car

Out of Action

Irena’s Torana