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

Ford muscles up: Factory supercharged Stang for 2020 • Anyone who thinks the muscle car era is over should think again.

Tickford Bullitt

Vale: Peter Molloy

New Nagari unveiled

S5000 thunders into action

Brock, Dick and Harry

Auction update

Retrovision

Luke West

AMC BEST LETTER

Gypsies, tramps & thieves • Following its time as a racecar, this Falcon GT-HO Phase III disappeared off the radar when it ventured to a remote Western Australian mining town early in its life. Its time beyond the black stump saw it survive neglect, cyclones, a rollover and being pushed off railway tracks by an ore train! Eventually, its current owner purchased it from a deceased estate and restored to its racing look, in doing so unlocking the incredible story of this car’s colourful life.

By the Numbers

Kean collector • This is the tale of how an Adelaide youngster realised his dream of owning his very own Australian muscle car. But not just any car, because this two-owner Torana A9X turned out to have a special significance to a special Holden dealer – Vin Kean, the driving force behind the establishment of Peter Brock’s HDT Special Vehicles business.

Hardies Heroes history • Bathurst’s Top 10 shootout has proven remarkably enduring for a concept some purists considered gimmicky when it was introduced in 1978. Incredibly, it’s etched an unbroken 40-year history as an irreplaceable Great Race tradition.

Top Ten • Most memorable Top 10 Shootout moments

Flyin’ Ryan • He did not win any championships and nor did he enjoy any major touring car race victories. But Graham Ryan wasn’t without his successes in an almost two-decade career that started and ended in Holdens – but with an association in between with Valiants that might have delivered so much more, had Chrysler’s commitment to its racing programme been less fleeting than it was.

Graham Ryan today

Repco Retrial 2019 • On August 5, 1979, the Repco Reliability Trial set off from the Melbourne Showground. Exactly 40 years later, the Repco Reliability Retrial got under way from the very same location. Phil Walmsley joined an enthusiastic band of Repco retriallers – including several drivers and cars from the epic ’79 trial – on the Aussie motoring adventure of a lifetime.

Putting you in the driver’s seat • Today we almost take it for granted. But there was a time when in-car footage, filmed during an actual race and then beamed live on TV, was something most would have thought to be simply impossible – the stuff of sci-fi movies. But then, 40 years ago, some of Seven’s Bathurst telecast boffins got thinking... and came up with a thing they called ‘Racecam’, a technological breakthrough that would change TV sports broadcasting forever.

My Muscle Car

Your Car Here!

The sounds of Baskerville • Earlier this year the historic folk at race Supercars meeting hatched at Mount a plan Panorama to run . a Goodwood Australia -style ever to stage its own downunder version But of – the were Goodwood be at Revival Baskerville , it probably . The annual wouldn historic ’t be at meeting Bathurst at Australia but it might ’s smallest and oldest permanent race facility is a trip down memory lane – in more ways than one.

The day they cleaned up the Mountain • Unruly crowd behaviour was a major factor in the end of motorcycle racing on Mount Panorama – and for a while it was bad enough even to...