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Australian Muscle Car

Issue 115
Magazine

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 • Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars…

Australian Muscle Car

GM firms up Oz future • Holden is gone but its parent General Motors will live on in Australia.

Tickford secures Roush partnership

Camaro Supercars conundrum

Bressington tops chaotic TCM opener

Coronavirus chaos hits motorsport season

XT Supermodel

Gnoo Blas celebrates ATCC’s 60th

McLeod’s sons

Auction update

Albany Classic

Classic time at the Island

Wally’s Words • Adventures with Brocky: tales from Peter Brock’s PR chief

Paul Newby

AMC BEST LETTER

Craven Wild! • It’s the last Holden Allan Grice ever raced under the Craven Mild Racing banner, and one of the first two Commodores ever to be raced. It’s also the only touring car ever to have been shared in an enduro by privateer superstars Bob Morris and Grice. Now, after a long spell in the wilderness, it is back and ready to race, 40 years after it first hit the track.

Dream team • In 1980 the combination of Bob Morris and Allan Grice had the makings of a touring car racing dream team. The reality turned out to be somewhat different, however, as the racing partnership between the two privateer heavyweights barely made it through the first six months.

Supercars Supercars no longer Holden on • In the wake of the demise of Holden, Supercars seems almost certain to reprise the American muscle car rivalry of its Australian Touring Car Championship past – and it could happen as soon as next year.

Holden 1856 - 2020 • What we know today as Holden began as a humble saddlery in Adelaide in the 1850s. With the advent of the automobile, the Holden company switched to making bodies to suit a range of different imported motor vehicle brands. In 1931 Holden was bought by its biggest client, General Motors, with the new General Motors-Holden company famously going on to produce an all-Australian made car in 1948. In 2020, General Motors took the decision to shut down its Australian Holden business.

A high-stakes Hockey game

Holden timeline

American muscle home grown • Ford’s Mustang wasn’t born here but the Herrod Performance Mustang R-Spec is made here – in fact, the run of 500 of these Ford-approved Herrod-enhanced supercharged ‘stangs were made in the old Ford plant in Campbellfield, where once they built Falcons. Bruce Newton spoke to Herrod about the monumental effort involved in what is effectively the downunder equivalent of Ford’s collaboration with Shelby in the US.

Jobs for Bob • Bob Watson’s circuit racing career was limited to a handful of races but it included victory in the Sandown pre-Bathurst enduro and third place in the Great Race itself. In his day job as an engineer at Holden he played a pivotal role in the development of the HK Monaro GTS 327, having previously been one of the pioneering drivers in Holden’s early ‘60s covert rally programme. Along the way he was also Australian rally champion: in motorsport, there were few jobs beyond the capabilities of Bob Watson.

Tru-Blu Version2 • The track is Lakeside, the car is a dark blue XD Ford Falcon and the driver is Dick Johnson, who is putting the shiny new Ford racer through its paces for the very first time. This could be 1980, when Dick tested his new XD Falcon in preparation for what would prove a fateful Bathurst assault that year – except that it’s not. This is 2020, and this is the long-awaited ‘Tru-Blu’ Falcon XD which Steven Johnson is...


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Frequency: Every other month Pages: 116 Publisher: Nextmedia Pty Ltd Edition: Issue 115

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  • Release date: April 1, 2020

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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 • Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars…

Australian Muscle Car

GM firms up Oz future • Holden is gone but its parent General Motors will live on in Australia.

Tickford secures Roush partnership

Camaro Supercars conundrum

Bressington tops chaotic TCM opener

Coronavirus chaos hits motorsport season

XT Supermodel

Gnoo Blas celebrates ATCC’s 60th

McLeod’s sons

Auction update

Albany Classic

Classic time at the Island

Wally’s Words • Adventures with Brocky: tales from Peter Brock’s PR chief

Paul Newby

AMC BEST LETTER

Craven Wild! • It’s the last Holden Allan Grice ever raced under the Craven Mild Racing banner, and one of the first two Commodores ever to be raced. It’s also the only touring car ever to have been shared in an enduro by privateer superstars Bob Morris and Grice. Now, after a long spell in the wilderness, it is back and ready to race, 40 years after it first hit the track.

Dream team • In 1980 the combination of Bob Morris and Allan Grice had the makings of a touring car racing dream team. The reality turned out to be somewhat different, however, as the racing partnership between the two privateer heavyweights barely made it through the first six months.

Supercars Supercars no longer Holden on • In the wake of the demise of Holden, Supercars seems almost certain to reprise the American muscle car rivalry of its Australian Touring Car Championship past – and it could happen as soon as next year.

Holden 1856 - 2020 • What we know today as Holden began as a humble saddlery in Adelaide in the 1850s. With the advent of the automobile, the Holden company switched to making bodies to suit a range of different imported motor vehicle brands. In 1931 Holden was bought by its biggest client, General Motors, with the new General Motors-Holden company famously going on to produce an all-Australian made car in 1948. In 2020, General Motors took the decision to shut down its Australian Holden business.

A high-stakes Hockey game

Holden timeline

American muscle home grown • Ford’s Mustang wasn’t born here but the Herrod Performance Mustang R-Spec is made here – in fact, the run of 500 of these Ford-approved Herrod-enhanced supercharged ‘stangs were made in the old Ford plant in Campbellfield, where once they built Falcons. Bruce Newton spoke to Herrod about the monumental effort involved in what is effectively the downunder equivalent of Ford’s collaboration with Shelby in the US.

Jobs for Bob • Bob Watson’s circuit racing career was limited to a handful of races but it included victory in the Sandown pre-Bathurst enduro and third place in the Great Race itself. In his day job as an engineer at Holden he played a pivotal role in the development of the HK Monaro GTS 327, having previously been one of the pioneering drivers in Holden’s early ‘60s covert rally programme. Along the way he was also Australian rally champion: in motorsport, there were few jobs beyond the capabilities of Bob Watson.

Tru-Blu Version2 • The track is Lakeside, the car is a dark blue XD Ford Falcon and the driver is Dick Johnson, who is putting the shiny new Ford racer through its paces for the very first time. This could be 1980, when Dick tested his new XD Falcon in preparation for what would prove a fateful Bathurst assault that year – except that it’s not. This is 2020, and this is the long-awaited ‘Tru-Blu’ Falcon XD which Steven Johnson is...


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