Issue 142

Issue 142

Vee-Dubble

Bryan Thomson’s famous Chev-engined Volkswagen Fastback Sports Sedan has been reincarnated, by the same man who built the original, and in the same Victorian country town

XB Hardtop GT

It wasn’t the final Falcon GT but it was the last of the original line tracing back to the XR Falcon GT – the car which marked the birth of what we know today as the Aussie muscle car

Coupe4

The story behind the ambitious joint plan 20 years ago between HSV and Holden to develop a high-performance Monaro-based luxury coupe with all-wheel-drive

Ron Harrop

Part two of our Muscle Man feature on former racer and engineering mastermind Ron Harrop

Back in the day

AMC’s pictorial reflection of Dick Johnson’s career as we mark 60 years since Dick’s first race

Glen Dix

The second installment of our feature on flamboyant flag waver and the man they called Australia’s ‘race track Nureyev’, Adelaide’s Glen Dix

TRD tales

Toyota’s bold plan in the 2000s to take on HSV and FPV - and where it went wrong