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]
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]