Australian Muscle Car

It’s amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do. Peter Brock is on record as saying that the midyear livery change was the secret to the Holden Dealer Team’s success in 1972, as Brock biographer David Hassall explains elsewhere in this issue in his re

As covered in last issue of AMC, 1972 saw the Supercar Scare and the stillbirth of the eagerly anticipated V8 XU-1. This ultimately led to the birth of a legend with Peter Brock claiming his first Bathurst victory at the wheel of the giant-killing si

Due to a production issue in AMC 130 (ED: more like a contributor’s issue) a couple of paragraphs of part two of the Andrew Miedecke Muscle Man feature didn’t make to it print. In the interests of completeness, we have included them here – they both

Late June members of the Brock Commodore Owners Association of Australia (BCOAA) from NSW & Qld descended on the Macksville for a Friday afternoon at former Holden dealership, Geoff King Eastland. With the Holden signs proudly still on display, it ma

Max was born in the Newcastle suburb of Mayfield in 1935, with his family moving to Sydney in the early days of WW2 due to anti-German sentiment towards the family name. There he would grow up with his father helping him along in both after-school en

Sadly, we are no longer able walk into a Holden new car showroom and drive out in a new Commodore SSV or HSV model. But if you walk into the Sydney showroom of Australian Muscle Car Sales, you could become the owner of what is effectively a brand new

amceditorial@chevron.com.au | Locked Bag 5555, St Leonards NSW 1590 Being a lover of HQ coupes and the owner of one, I very much enjoyed the Q-ship Coupe article in AMC issue #130. I just have one slight correction as you showed that Holden ad with a

It’s funny how interviews can start off on one topic and somehow manage to totally change tack onto a completely different tangent. Mostly the interviewer’s task it to get things back on topic but occasionally the tangent can produce an unexpected ou

Watch the 2002 DVD of Peter Brock and Colin Bond discussing the famous Torana XU-1 victory at Bathurst in 1972 and you will detect some confusion on Brock’s face. Bond seems clear in his memory of an historic day for the Holden Dealer Team and annunc

It was either a case of impeccable timing, or it was one of the most ill-timed media releases in the history of the Australian motor industry. Or maybe it was both… Either way, on the Monday morning of June 26, 1972 – the very next day after the Evan

In a way it was doomed from the start. Because if the Super Car Scare hadn’t have killed off the 340 E55 four-speed ‘Bathurst’ Charger, then Chrysler Australia’s newly installed managing director William Balthrop no doubt would have. But early in 197

This is a slightly long story insofar as I want to finally write about my recollections of that now watershed day, the day the Chrysler Australia Limited 340/four-speed Charger program died. But to do that justice I’d like to go back a little further

Howard Marsden cut a dejected figure at the end of the Chesterfield 250 at Adelaide International Raceway on August 27. The opening round of the Australian Manufacturers’ Championship had just been run, and won – but not by either of his works Ford t

Anniversaries can be interesting moments. Things have a habit of being revealed because time changes our perspective. What was once secret is now an anecdote that can be shared. It’s a bit like that with the Ford EB Falcon GT 25th Anniversary, which

If he is remembered by Australian motorsport fans who were around during the 1970s, it’s because of his unusual name. It was Hans Tiepermann who convinced the Geoghegan brothers to ‘suit up’ at Bathurst, helped put Toby Lee shirts on our backs and go

The Sydney Model Auto Club’s monthly swap meets are back. A long-time staple of the Sydney model car community, the swap meet has long been a way of trading models (of course) as much as a social event, with like-minded collectors and traders getting

BATHURST POLE POSITION Limited Edition of 1000 Kevin Bartlett finally got to drive his Camaro at Bathurst in 1980. While the results show the car finished comparatively poorly (11th, and 11 laps down), after several stops to replace the useless rear

The Old Road Café is a well-named establishment, because while it’s on the Old Pacific Highway at Mount White, north of Sydney, that section of the old highway is more widely known as the ‘old road’. Away from the traffic flow on the nearby M3 Motorw

Flappy-paddle fingertip gear selection on the steering wheel is the in-thing in modern high-performance cars (well, maybe not next year’s Gen3 Supercars, but that’s another story), but back in the day there was nothing more daggy than having the gear