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.

Editor’s Induction Steve Normoyle

Australian Muscle Car

GMSV is go

The The Repco Repco Bathurst Bathurst 1000 1000

‘Chicken Coupe’ RPO 83 attracts record sum

Valiant book

Cooking the books, er brakes...

Whaddayaknow?

Over and Out

Holden’s monopoly

Wally’s Words • Idle minds, engineers and fruit!

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

Paul Newby

AMC BEST LETTER

A Valiant effort

Chrysler custodian

Bathurst 1980 Sliding Doors • It’s 40 years since the event that reset local touring car racing, an October classic that laid the foundation for an incredible decade of drama and competition. It was a day when two distinct rock stars took centre stage… to experience vastly different fortunes.

Destiny’s child

The fickle finger of fate

JD and Small Change • AMC has tracked down and interviewed a volunteer official who witnessed the defining moment of the 1980 Bathurst 1000.

Riding the truck

Masters build • The Falcon XD has been eligible to race in Touring Car Masters for a while now, so it’s only fitting that its Holden nemesis from 40 years ago, the Commodore VC, has also been given the TCM thumbs up. Gerard McLeod has built the first one, a magnificently constructed machine with its own historical twist – presented in distinctive white/blue livery reminiscent of the Group A Commodore raced by his father, Peter McLeod, back in the day.

The vital statistics

World Beater • Warwick Brown made three Bathurst 1000 starts, the first of which was in a Dick Johnson Falcon. But Brown’s touring car race history is a mere postscript in his career – literally, in fact, because his other two Bathurst starts occurred after he’d retired from professional racing. Brown’s speciality in motor racing was a muscle car of a very different kind, because he was one of the kings of international Formula 5000 and Can-Am racing in the ’70s.

Shake and break

Taught by experts

Brown vs Bobby Unser

Slot car addiction

NZ Sports Sedan racing Titanic Trans-Tas Trans-Am

Handsome Humpy • It’s been described as the Rolls Royce of ‘Humpy’ Holdens. Which pretty much sums it up – because in the case of Peter Mather’s beautifully restored FJ model Holden historic touring car, the old the cliché holds true: this car is so good it needs to be seen to be believed.

Interested parties

Punter Pics

Mini Muscle

Green Green with with Envy Envy

Out of Action

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