A Look Back at the Cars of 1989 08 May 2019 01:28 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareThe final year of the 1980s closes out a decade of varying hair styles, musical tastes, the Indiana Jones and Star Wars sagas (before they got truly silly) and an innovative decade of car engineering and design. Holden’s VN Commodore was reaching the end of its design life, and still packed a... [More]
Rare Spares sponsors the "Welcome Strangers” team in the Autumn Shitbox Rally, 8th – 17th May 2019 30 April 2019 09:38 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareRare Spares are proud to announce that they are sponsoring Aaron Barnes’, a long time Rare Spares customer, team the “Welcome Strangers” in the Autumn Shitbox Rally, Perth to Sydney via Uluru – May 8th – 17th. The Shitbox Rally challenges teams to drive cars worth less... [More]
A brief history of Formula Ford in Australia 24 April 2019 08:08 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareMotorsport started a few weeks after the first bunch of cars rolled off the production line. Two blokes looked at each other over a beer at the pub and simultaneously said “I’ll race ya!”. Bare seconds after they started racing they crashed. Again, they looked at each other and sai... [More]
Rare Spares’ Automotive Movie Guide – 5 of our Favourites! 10 April 2019 10:27 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareThere are some topics in life which are more divisive than pineapple on pizzas. Star Wars versus Star Trek, Holden versus Ford, Connery versus Moore. Best car films in any discussion fall into the divisive category. What makes for a good car film, though? Is it the car or cars? The story line... [More]
How did Datsun become Nissan? 27 March 2019 10:13 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareThose of us of a certain age will remember that the brand name Nissan was unheard of, and Datsun was synonymous with small Japanese cars. However, there is a substantial history to both companies. Datsun itself was founded in 1911. Part of the name, DAT, comes from the company founders. Kenjiro Den... [More]
Adelaide 2019 Race Report - Adam Marjoram 20 March 2019 09:17 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareAdelaide is now done and dusted we had our best overall result yet and below is how it unfolded. Wednesday 27th February I arrived in Adelaide on Wednesday morning for the usual day of set up, scrutineering, track walk, team meetings and review data and vision from previous years. Now for the... [More]
Top 5 Australian Touring Car Drivers 13 March 2019 07:46 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareMotorsport in Australia is, it’s fair to say, in a state of flux right now. There are new cars, new championships, and new drivers. It’d also be fair to say that the new crop of drivers would all want to be seen, be remembered, in the same category as those regarded as Australia’s ... [More]
Rare Spares backs Adam Marjoram in 2019 Dunlop Super2 Series 28 February 2019 09:02 Rare Spares (0) ShareRare Spares are excited to announce their sponsorship of Supercar driver Adam Marjoram in the Dunlop Super2 Series in 2019. Adam Marjoram will channel an Erebus Motorsport livery in the 2019 Dunlop Super2 Series, when he carries backing from Rare Spares, Penrite Oil, ICT, Bremtec and Supercharge Ba... [More]
Rare Spares backs Adam Marjoram in 2019 Dunlop Super2 Series 28 February 2019 09:02 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareRare Spares are excited to announce their sponsorship of Supercar driver Adam Marjoram in the Dunlop Super2 Series in 2019. Adam Marjoram will channel an Erebus Motorsport livery in the 2019 Dunlop Super2 Series, when he carries backing from Rare Spares, Penrite Oil, ICT, Bremtec and Supercharge Ba... [More]
The Holden ECOmmodore 26 February 2019 09:12 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareHolden has a history of quietly sneaking concept cars or forthcoming design changes into public view. Possibly its biggest hidden in plain sight concept of the last two decades was the ECOmmodore of 2000. Ostensibly a four door coupe version of the VT Commodore, it would eventually point the way to... [More]