Muscle Turns – 1970s Bathurst 1000

Zone out for sponsored pre-roll of this video. Listen for the funky notes from the introduction of Papa Was a Rolling Stone by the Temptations. Zone in. In the words of the narrator… One minute to go. Motors now revving up. Flag’s up. Thousands of horsepower will be unleashed in seconds. There it goes! And […]

Castlemaine classic car and utes show

I just can’t get enough of these right-hand drive classics from Australia. We received these photos via email this week from classic car enthusiast Rhonda Martinez who also provided us with some photos of the classic car show in Castlemaine last year. Most GM cars and many others built in Australia before World War Two […]

A Polarizing Car Tale from Down Under

Hemmings has readers in Australia who are clearly well versed in what U.S. car enthusiasts are up to. Meanwhile, I’m woefully ignorant about Australian cars, with the exception of the two (I know of) that have been sold here: the 2008-2009 Pontiac G8, aka Holden VE Commodore, and the 2004-2006 Pontiac GTO, aka the Holden […]