Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went...
This year saw the seventh running of the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, an event that was open to cars...
The story of the Cooper Car Company is well known where father and son team Charles and John Cooper in 1946 set up shop in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. John was keen on motor racing and the first cars built were comprised of joining the front ends of...
The motor racing career of Australian Vern Schuppan has been written up extensively over the years. Born in South Australia,...
1930 Bentley Speed Six A bloke couldn’t think of anything more dissimilar if he tried. From a Boeing 737, to...
Parramatta Park, NSW, Australia January 26, 2018...
It was irresistible and I just had to have it. Back in 1976, my friend Keith had learnt the whereabouts...
There is but a short list of automotive names, from the post-World War II period, that shine brightly. Names that when they come to mind, cause us to think about significant marques or types of vehicles that are renowned amongst enthusiasts today. Someone like Enzo Ferrari, who started his career...
You know how the saying goes? “Wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that.” The scene was...
1934 MG Q-type The story of how, in 1923, the first MG—under the guidance of Cecil Kimber—grew from the Bullnose...
What an amazing difference a decade makes! I hadn’t long before jumped out of a 1976 Ford Escort Mexico, before I sat behind the wheel of a 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo. Smooth! Cultured! Modern! Three words that came to mind as both cars were poles apart and while the Escort...
Melbourne-based auction house Mossgreen dipped its toe into the Sydney automotive auction scene on Sunday May 28 as 20 vehicles...
Refrigerators, Motorcycles, Microcars, Sports Coupes – All Connected in a Forgotten Italian Marque Italian marques such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Alfa...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin Crabbe, it will be in this book, a most personal account of apparently everything that ever happened to him. And, of course, he led a full life, the arc of...
Australian Collector Extraordinaire Astounded! That would be the best word to describe how I felt when Sydney, Australia-based classic car...
1965 Ford Cortina GT500 First used as a motor racing circuit back in 1938, for the Australian Grand Prix of...
Sydney, Australia • August 28, 2016 ...
Available in two- and four-door sedans, station wagons and even tradesman’s panel vans, the first generation Ford Escort, released in...
1976 Cheetah Mk6 AF2 Fifteen years is a long time in the automotive world, and I suspect that within the...
Journey From Sydney to Melbourne to Tasmania in a Classic Jaguar Many years back I worked as a jackaroo, which would require no explanation in Australia, but in case you don’t know, that’s a young bloke who is working on a sheep or cattle station (farm) to gain practical experience...
The name of Noel Macklin is writ large in the history of British sporting cars. Marques such as Eric-Campbell, Silver...
1949 MG Y Type MG equals sports cars! Sports cars equal MG! Horse and carriage! Cup and saucer! Top hat...
Any MG enthusiast would remember the sad day on October 23, 1980, when the last MGB left the famed Abingdon site. Workers paraded outside the factory as the following day marked the closure of the factory that had been the home of the MG sports car since 1929. Thankfully, the...
“Flat out like a lizard drinking!” Came the response from Andrew Woodall when I asked him how he was. It...
Donald Healey and his small team at the Donald Healey Motor Company in Warwick, England, were on a roll. Late...
Monday March 2, 2015 was indeed a sad day for Australian historic motor sport enthusiasts when Leo Geoghegan (78), one of its icons succumbed after a long battle with prostate cancer. Geoghegan started his racing career in 1956 behind the wheel of an early model Holden sedan and spent his...
When you look at any listing of Lotus competition cars built from the first Lotus VI of 1952 through to...
The Historic Sports and Racing Car Association, Australia’s foremost Historic Motorsport club, recently celebrated the 90th birthday of not only...
In anyone’s language the 1924 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost of Rex Vincent is an imposing motor car. Yes, at over 17-feet it’s quite large, and there is plenty of brass along with many other fittings to admire, but when it’s all together the car just commands attention through its stature. It’s...
