HSV Rebranding to GMSV 15 February 2021 11:48 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Jo Stogiannis is the Director of GMSV, or General Motors Special Vehicles. She has an extensive background with Holden that has her starting on the ground floor in a customer service role before moving through areas such as Export and CRM, Customer Relations Management. She has also worked in the Holden Fleet Management area. [More]
Holden’s Last Hurrah 27 January 2021 08:58 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share 2020 will be in the history books as a year to remember for all of the wrong reasons. In a motorsport sense and for fans of the Red Lion in Australia’s premier tintop series, it’ll be the year that Holden, as a brand, officially fielded its last cars. [More]
Extremely Rare 1 of 1 XA GT RPO 83 Ford Classic Auction 12 January 2021 03:31 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share What do you classify as rare? Apart from Rare Spares, that is. Rocking horse poo? Honest politicians? Evidence of the Loch Ness monster being truly real? How about a Ford XA Falcon GT in RPO 83 specification. [More]
COVID Roads 29 December 2020 11:50 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share 2020 has been, it’s fair to say, an absolute charley of a year. Bushfires, Covid, and floods in some areas as the year wound down, have stopped a lot of what we Aussies like to do and kept us housebound. [More]
NextGen Nascars 15 December 2020 10:15 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Time changes all things and for the main American tintop category, NASCAR, 2021 brings some substantial changes. Here’s a look at a few of what should be on track in 2021. [More]
Custom Wrecks Model Cars 02 December 2020 08:31 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Say the word “Airfix” and most people would associate it with a wizened old man, in a small, dimly lit room, hunched over a model of a sailing ship. In reality, that’s well away from the truth. Hobby modelling is made up of all ages (that’s why it thrives) and there are young girls alongside their Dads, wives alongside their husbands, and women alongside their wives, working on a plastic model kit, of a ship, a plane, or a car... [More]
Summernats returns to Canberra in 2021 with Rare Spares Rev Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival 30 November 2020 10:06 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share Summernats is excited to announce that Australia’s favourite horsepower party is returning to Canberra’s Exhibition Park in a new COVID safe format, on March 5 to 7, 2021. [More]
History Demolished, Tragically: HDT Building In Melbourne Torn Down 18 November 2020 01:26 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareHumanity has a curious habit of removing certain parts of history whilst feting other parts.HDT, or Holden Dealer Team, were formed and based in Melbourne. The headquarters were in the inner suburb of Hawthorn, at 35 Queens Avenue, and purchased by the man known as “The Silver Fox”, Harry Firth, in the early 1960s whilst working for Ford. [More]
SOLD – Brocks Last Bathurst Winning Commodore 04 November 2020 08:19 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) SharePeter Brock holds the record for the most wins at Mt Panorama. Nine is the number and in 2004, he gave it a red hot go to up the number to double digits.Or, rather, would have if it weren’t for the misfortune of his U.K. based co-driver Jason Plato. 27 laps into the 2004 race, Plato was at the wheel of the 05 HRT Commodore and after tapping a wall with the front right, was easing the stricken vehicle down Conrod Straight. [More]
Top 10 Automotive and Motorsport Podcasts 20 October 2020 09:59 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareTechnology can bring us many things. Some are fantastic, such as 4K television, digital radio, air-fryers...well, maybe not so much the last. Technology has also brought some old favourites, in a way, firmly into the digital age. [More]