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.Thu, 28 May 2026 08:23:21 +100010If there was one single reason for the popularity of Channel Seven’s Bathurst telecasts in the 1980s it would have to be Racecam.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/sevens-racecam-revolution-625767?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar625767Mon, 11 May 2026 05:21:00 +1000Any Falcon GTHO is a rare and special car, but a survivor with a racing history – including at Bathurst – like this one is obviously even more special. Photoshoot: Kathleen Coe Images: Chevron Archive, Autopics.com.auhttps://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/hidden-ho-history-625696?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar625696Fri, 8 May 2026 03:11:00 +1000The Mustang Dark Horse returns to Australia for 2026 – along with a Triple Eight special edition.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/mustang-dark-horse-returns-625459?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar625459Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:57:00 +1000The early 1970s touring car racing action at Sydney's Warwick Farm was so good that spectators risked crossing a river to get in without paying.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/up-the-creek-624883?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624883Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:04:00 +1000The Torana GTR-X was the Holden sports car that never (but almost) was... https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/futurama-624823?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624823Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +1000In later years he was better known as Glenn Seton’s father, but Barry ‘Bo’ Seton was a giant of Australian motorsport in his own right.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/vale-barry-bo-seton-625200?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar625200Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:55:00 +1000Garry Rogers cheekily likes to think of this as the last new Holden made in Australia. It might not have rolled down the Holden production line, but this 2020 reprise of the GRM Bathurst 24 winning Monaros of 2002-’03 certainly is a new Holden – and what a Holden it is... How ever legitimate the last-Holden claim may be, with this new Monaro 427C the Holden Lion can exit with a mighty roar rather than a whimper. It also brings a whole new meaning to Holden’s 2003 Bathurst 24 victory slogan: Game Over. Photoshoot: Graeme Neanderhttps://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/game-over-the-last-holden-624812?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624812Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +1000In the mid 1960s American drivers Marshall Sargent and Larry Burton introduced the concept of Super Modifieds to Australian speedway. https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/the-marshall-and-larry-show-624881?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar624881Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:40:00 +1000Oran 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 +1000While road racing had its Mustang rivalries in the early 1970s, so too did speedway racing also have its battle of the Stangs.https://www.musclecarmag.com.au/feature/speedways-battle-of-the-stangs-625067?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amc_rssmusclecar625067Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:41:00 +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 +1000