Issue 137

Issue 137

Super Sport

Whether it meant Super Sport, Sizzling Special or Strictly Standard, the SS initials would become a special signifier of high performance Holdens. Here’s where it began, with the original Holden SS

A Galaxie too far away

FPV’s stillborn plan in the early 2000s to bring back the Ford Galaxie name

Back in the Day

Fun and frivolity on the buses - those ‘70s double-decker race track hospitality suites on wheels

Nexy big thing?

GT4 might just be the next big thing in Australian motorsport, in a manufacturer-supported category reminiscent of the early days of Group A touring car racing

One make Triumph

An insider’s recollection of the Amaroo Park Triumph TR7 Pro-Am Series

Robbie Francevic

Anyone who was a fan of Australian touring car racing in the ‘80s will remember the colourful and sometimes controversial - but always quick - Kiwi, Robbie Francevic

Stuebaker stories

The tale of Studebaker specialist Bert Needham Jnr and the V8 Studebakers that never quite got it done in the Great Race

Rags to riches

From basket case to belle of the ball: the painstaking restoration of a Torana SL hatchback