https://www.musclecarmag.com.auAustralian MUSCLE CAR Magazine Premium is the home of exclusive stories, photos and more from the legendary Australian MUSCLE CAR Magazine archives. Join the team now for instant accessCopyright 2026 nextmedia Pty. Ltd.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:52:25 +100010Oran Park’s 1971 Australian Touring Car Championship final round was dubbed the ‘greatest day in Australian motor racing’. Some say it still is more than 50 years later. Main image: Autopics.com.auhttps://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/smoking-hos-624598?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624598Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +1000Orchids are renowned as a beautifully flowering plant which can be grown from the stem. This lovely pair of ‘Orchid Metallics’ weren’t created by that method – they were in fact made in a Holden factory – but they share identical Holden DNA and are a matching pair in all respects apart from one of them being a Sandman panel van and the other a Monaro GTS four-door. These painstakingly restored orchid-hued HQs make for a very rare twin-set of Holdens.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/purebred-orchids-624596?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624596Thu, 9 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +1000If you were a kid in 1960 and you loved cars, it was essential to become a member of the Nestle’s Car Club.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/join-the-club-624599?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624599Tue, 7 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +1000They say that racing improves the breed, and there's nothing like the stresses of competition on the track to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of a car - as Bob Jane discovered with his famous Mustang Catalina crash.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/catalina-crash-test-624581?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624581Sun, 5 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +1000Even today it’s still the ultimate Bathurst-bred Ford. The GTHO Phase III was the last of its line, and it was partly responsible for steering Australian touring car racing away from a stock-standard showroom formula and onto the course that would lead to today’s Supercars. Its legend was born 50 years ago on a windswept October afternoon in the NSW central tablelands.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/hi-ho-watch-the-fords-go-by-624595?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624595Thu, 2 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +1000It was the wettest Bathurst 500/1000 yet held and arguably the most exciting as Kevin Bartlett fended off the late-race challenge from Bob Forbes’ Torana L34. KB still needed a walking stick (after the leg injuries he sustained in a Formula 5000 shunt earlier in the year) to get around but in the sodden conditions there could be no safer or more skilled pair of hands to guide the John Goss McLeod Ford Falcon Hardtop to victory.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/gallery/wet-and-wild-bathurst-1974-624593?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624593Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +1000In the late 1950s, just about every teenager in the western suburbs of Melbourne went to Tracey’s Speedway out at Maribyrnong. If you were young and into cars, this was the place to be.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/saturday-night-at-the-skids-624580?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624580Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +1000Top level motor racing does not happen without sponsorship. And a lot of top level Torana racing action in the 1970s would not have happened without the enthusiasm and generosity of one man, Max Aubert. Max passed away a few years ago, aged 92, but the ebullient Holden dealer left a lasting impression, both on the drivers who raced with him and also on the sport itself. https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/max-effort-624588?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624588Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +1000The Allan Moffat tribute sticker initiative at last year’s Adelaide 500 Supercars event has raised $27,500 for Dementia Australia.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/moffat-tribute-raises-funds-for-dementia-australia-624587?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624587Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:55:00 +1000Scenes from the ninth annual Adelaide Chrysler Festival over the weekend of March 20-22, put on by the Chrysler Car Club of South Australia. Images: Bernie Hart/ Motography Mediahttps://www.musclecarmag.com.au/gallery/gallery-adelaide-chrysler-festival-2026-624508?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624508Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:34:00 +1000With the body of a Corvette and the heart of a Holden, it was a kind of Claytons Corvette – or maybe that should be Bayswater Corvette, seeing as that was the Melbourne suburb where these home-grown V8 muscle coupes were made back in the eighties. It was an ingenious concept, a serious attempt at offering an affordable high-performance Australian sportscar within the constraints of what Australian government regulations would allow, and it did achieve a level of sales success. For all that, it’s a car that remains surprising little-known today; more than 40 years after it broke cover at the Sydney Motor Show, the name Perentti seems to have ended up somewhat lost in the mists of time.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/perentti-the-claytons-corvette-624454?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624454Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:56:00 +1000What you’re seeing here measures just 1.9 by 1.0 metres. And while it might only be a miniature model of the real thing, take a look at these photos and you’re instantly transported back in time, back to Oran Park Raceway in the 1970s/early ‘80s. For the man who created this magnificent small-scale masterpiece, it’s a personal tribute, a three-dimensional reminder of the much-missed Sydney circuit.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/small-wonder-624270?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624270Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:13:00 +1000Scenes from the second round of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship at Melbournes Albert Park. Images: Ray Berghouse, Bernie Hart/Motography Media, Peter Buryhttps://www.musclecarmag.com.au/gallery/gallery2026-melbourne-supersprint-624263?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624263Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:38:00 +1000James Moffat will honour his late father, Allan Moffat, in a retro-liveried Mustang Dark Horse R in the opening round of the Motorcraft Mustang Cup Australia.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/moffat-trans-am-mustang-tribute-livery-for-mustang-cup-624255?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624255Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:36:00 +1000The NSW, Canberra and Southern NSW chapters of the Mustang Owners Club of Australia combined to host the 2026 Mustang show at Viking Park in the ACT, on February 8.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/gallery/gallery-2026-canberra-mustang-show-624046?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624046Thu, 5 Mar 2026 03:59:00 +1000Phil Brock raced in the shadow of his famous brother, Peter Brock, but was a talented driver who enjoyed a fair level of success in his own right.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/vale-phil-brock-624047?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624047Wed, 4 Mar 2026 04:43:00 +1000Australia's first rock'n'roll star and the highway accident that made him even more famous. https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/the-wild-one-wipes-out-623862?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar623862Sun, 1 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +1000All good things come to those who wait. Like the Torana SL/R 5000 L34 that Gary Bartlett finally made his own – and which continues to slowly reveal the part it played in Holden history. Images: Phil Wisewoodhttps://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/surprise-packet-623918?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar623918Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:43:00 +1000From the makers of Australian MUSCLE CAR comes a new Formula 1-focused magazine that's just launched ahead of the 2026 grand prix season.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/new-f1-magazine-launches-in-australia-623861?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar623861Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:32:00 +1000Scenes from the opening round of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship at Sydney Motorsport Park. Images: Ray Berghouse, Peter Bury, James Smithhttps://www.musclecarmag.com.au/gallery/gallery-round-1-2026-repco-supercars-championship-623816?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar623816Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:33:00 +1000