Issue 141

Issue 141

Six Pack’s last stand

The iconic triple-Weber carbied Hemi 265 Six Pack didn’t quite end with the VH Valiant series and the magnificent Charger E49 - there was a handful of hot Six Pack-powered VJ Chargers

Designing the Walkinshaw

It was the first HSV, and while it had nothing to do with Peter Brock it was certainly polarising when it came to the styling. Here’s how and why the ‘Walkinshaw’ looked the way it did

Back in the day

Moffat vs Grice in a vintage day of touring car racing action at the old Amaroo Park circuit

May the fourth

The arrival downunder of the Trans-Am Mustang on May 4, 1969, changed Australian motorsport forever, as this extract from David Hassall’s new book on Moffat’s iconic Mustang explains

Tales from the factory floor

Mike Breen’s recollections of his first trip to Mount Panorama, and how ‘corporate hospitality’
at Bathurst in 1975 was somewhat more rudimentary than today’s airconditioned suites

Muscle Man: Ron Harrop

Ron Harrop weaved his engineering magic for all the Melbourne-based stars, from Norm Beechey and Bob Jane to Peter Brock and HRT. He was pretty handy behind the wheel, too

The other Moffat Mustangs

One Allan Moffat fan’s unique tribute to the glorious Moffat Ford Dealers one-two ‘77 Bathurst win

Race track Nureyev

The flamboyant flag waver from Adelaide who rose to stardom on the F1 world stage

Turbo Territory

It’s largely forgotten now but in the SUV world the Ford Territory Turbo was a ground-breaking vehicle - a cut-price high-performance SUV hewn from Aussie muscle car culture