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

Around the block for Brock with a nod to Spencer Martin

More Miedecke

Barn find book

Auction update

The Book of Phase I½ and II

Hardtop Anniversary reunion

Brock Commodores hit the mid-north coast

Max Stahl 1935-2022

‘New’ HSV

Vale Niel Allen

Muscle Mail • AMC BEST LETTER

Paul Newby

“The race that changed my life” • AMC gets to the bottom of a 50-year controversy as we celebrate the golden anniversary of Peter Brock’s first Bathurst win. In this revealing feature, David Hassall explains the circumstances that changed the great man’s life forever.

The last of the Supercars • It managed to escape the 1972 Supercar Scare, and that makes it the last of the ‘supercars’. Unlike Holden and Ford, Chrysler’s Charger E49 was exactly the car it had always intended to take to that year’s Great Race. It’s just a pity that Chrysler itself decided not to join it on the Mountain, the company’s top brass squandering what was a golden opportunity for a Chrysler Bathurst victory.

A 340 turn • Ford’s competition boss Howard Marsden is on record as saying the only thing he really feared going into Bathurst in 1972 was the possibility of a V8 Charger. He needn’t have worried, as Chrysler had no plans for such a car – at least not for that year...

The day the Bathurst 340 Charger died… • One key Chrysler insider’s recollections of how and when the axe fell on the company’s plan to build a 340 V8 Charger Bathurst challenger

Giant killer • Without the new Falcon XA GTHO Phase IV and V8 Torana LJ XU-1, the ’72 Bathurst 500 didn’t look like amounting to all that much – apart maybe from a last-ditch chance for Chrysler to bag a win in the big one. Instead it turned out to be a cracker of a contest, and the first straight fight for Bathurst supremacy between Peter Brock and Allan Moffat.

The second coming • The EB Falcon GT 25th Anniversary is a pivotal muscle car in Ford Australia’s history. It’s the Falcon which brought back not only the GT badge but also the V8 engine to the Ford range, as well as marking the start of what would become Ford Performance Vehicles. To celebrate the car’s 30th anniversary, Bruce Newton spoke to some of its key development engineers, who reveal for the first time why the 5.0-litre Windsor V8 didn’t meet Ford’s claimed power output – a controversy which clouds the model’s legacy even 30 years on.

Hans Tiepermann a sharp dressed man • AMC has spotlighted many Australian motorsport pioneers who helped change the sport we love, from the wealthy and well-connected amateur era of the 1960s to the professional sport of the 1970s. The deeds of Al Turner, Harry Firth and Howard Marsden have been debated in the pages of AMC since the very first issue, 20 years ago. Yet there is another altogether forgotten man who played a significant role in developing motorsport during this classic era. His name is Hans Tiepermann.

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THE PARTY HOUSE • Team Party House was something of an institution – in more ways than one – in the Sydney motorsport scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. This unofficial racing team was named after an actual house, whose young occupants raced and partied hard in equal measure. David Cook caught up with some of the surviving residents of one of Sydney’s most famous (or infamous?) motor racing addresses.

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