Retropower Build Stunning One-off Escort for F1 Icon Gordon Murray 06 July 2021 10:02 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share We’d imagine that being asked to build a car by none other than F1 icon Gordon Murray would be enough to send even the most dedicated auto engineering company packing. But not the team at Retropower. [More]
Barn Find of The Month 22 June 2021 02:18 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Just when you thought there can’t possibly be any more original muscle cars locked away in Aussie garages comes this: a one owner, unrestored, low mileage 1972 Holden HQ SS with just 66,000 miles on the clock! [More]
Brock Commodore sets auction record for Australian-made car 08 June 2021 05:23 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share An immaculate and very original 1985 VK-series Holden Commodore HDT Group A – number 005 or 500 built – once owned and driven by late motor-racing legend Peter Brock, has broken a new auction record for an Australian-made car. [More]
Greater Road Relevance for Third Generation V8 Supercars 25 May 2021 09:20 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share V8 Supercars’ Gen3 formula is set to bring greater road relevance, closer racing, and lower costs to the grid from 2022. Supercars outlined details of a revamp that will also see a Chevrolet Camaro take to the track alongside a modified Ford Mustang, the traditional red and blue rivalry seeing greater technical parity in the V8-powered, front-engined, rear-drive field. [More]
Celebrating 40 Years of Chrysler’s Last Bastard 12 May 2021 01:52 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share This year marks 40 years since Chrysler’s “last bastard” rolled off the production line in South Australia, marking the end of an era for one of Australia’s own big three. [More]
What Happened To Sedans? 26 April 2021 08:34 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Half a century ago car buyers were able to buy a station wagon or a sedan. The word sedan has its origins, in the wheeled automotive sense, in 1912. It goes back further than that with a form of human transport called a litter. Think Cleopatra being carried around in a box covered in cloth, with poles at either end lifted by humans. [More]
Holden Torana SL/R A9X sells for $425,000 at Auction 08 April 2021 08:48 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareIn late 2020 a Holden LX Torana SL/R 5000 A9X was up for sale. Clad in gleaming Tuxedo Black, with silver trim on the bootlid spoiler,the four door sedan was being offered up with less than 30,000 kilometres driven, and from an owner that knew the value of such a rarity. [More]
Barn Find 1973 Ford Falcon XA GT RPO 83 Auction Sale 23 March 2021 06:14 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Car auctions are, for the most part, seen as a way to pick up a relatively cheap second or third or perhaps even fourth car for the family. “A couple of grand, ah it doesn’t matter if it gets pranged” is the thinking. [More]
C8 Corvette 10 March 2021 08:54 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Chevrolet changed the automotive world in 1953. A front engine, open topped, gorgeous looking car was launched. Called Corvette, after the fast and nimble warships of a decade before, it quickly because super popular and would become the car of choice for astronauts in the late 1960s. [More]
Biden’s Corvette - Presidential Wheels 23 February 2021 02:06 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share There are times when politics gets put to one side and all can agree on one thing: a good looking car is a good looking car. General Motors found the magic formula some decades ago and the Chevrolet Corvette, from the original through to the 1970s and perhaps 1980s, is arguably a damned good looking car. The astronauts certainly had an eye for class and drove Corvettes in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. [More]