Powered by: HSV’S VS GTS-R rates as one of the most outrageous styling exercises to come out of this country, as befits a very limited-build special. Our feature traces the roots of the model: “Seven years after the ’88 VL Commodore SS Group A, came

Powered by: THOUGH INITIALLY a source of controversy among the Porsche cognoscenti, the 928 series established itself as a truly exceptional grand tourer with a strong sporting bent. According to our feature on the series: “Porsche rolled out a new b

FOR THOSE inside the Porsche universe, the idea of getting an early seventies 911 in something close to original spec, is the sort of thing that dreams are made of. We’re talking of a hero era for the series. In a feature on a 911T, we note: “The 911

WHEN IT comes to standing out on the road, classic cars fend for themselves amongst the flocks of modern metal. Sometimes, however, owners of modern cars want to know they are driving a one-of-a-kind ride that can’t be rivalled. Euro Empire Auto embo

WHAT’S MOVIN' AND SHAKIN' October 1977 saw the arrival of the Datsun 200B sedans, wagons and coupes with local assembly beginning early 1978. The 200B became Australia’s top selling four-cylinder car. The SSS coupe lasted until late 1979, making it a

IF YOU wanted to list the world’s most enduring convertible designs, Alfa Romeo’s Spider would have to be on it. As we noted in a feature on the series: “Classic is a term that is overused and difficult to define … with ageless lines and film-star st

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I REMEMBER a few years back, Grenfell Chrysler Museum owner Jeff Connolly told me it won't take much to turn me in to a 'Mopar guy', after I recognised the Chrysler building lamp he had in his museum, and I think he was right! As we planned our three

VEHICLE 1974 CITROEN DS23 PALLAS OWNER RAMON MOCELLIN LENGTH OF RESTORATION 6 YEARS FEATURE YOUR CAR IN READER’S RESTO? Email details to: uniquecars@primecreative.com.au PRESENTED BY People buy unusual cars for all sorts of reasons, so what happened

WINGS or aero on a naked bike … really?! What on earth were they thinking? To say the styling for BMW’s M 1000 R – launched last year – is bold, is a sweeping understatement. You start to wonder whether the whole idea is delusional, or perhaps you sh

Powered by: BACK WHEN this car was new, you could have bought a decent house in just about any capital city in Australia, for the same money. Owning one was a big statement. While house prices have since skyrocketed and car prices have arguably dropp

FOR MERCEDES-BENZ, the launch of the then new W212 E-class in 2009 marked a reshaping of the line’s image with a more aggressive design ‘language’. While the styling was updated, the coupe and convertibles (C2017 and A207) ran with the W204 platform.

NAMED AFTER the Ford family estate in the USA, the Fairlane went through countless versions over its long history and this 1965 Sport Coupe is a fairly rare variant. Running the fourth-generation platform, this was the last re-sheet of the design bef

LOOKING MORE like something out of a washing machine, Mazda’s twin-chamber rotary power unit, was an engine with performance to dwarf its compact size. The rotary had been developed in Germany some years before Mazda saw its potential and tasked team

DODGE CHALLENGER FOR 1971 Mopar’s muscle car – Offered a wild colour palette. ■

Many years back, I bought The Speaker a mobile phone she didn’t want. This was, of course, for my benefit. Yep, it was a tracking device. Not that I thought she was plotting anything, but I figured my life would just be a bit simpler if I could call

Chatting with Graham Jordan, the owner of our featured Jaguar XK120 Coupe, reinforced my admiration for the people who devote their time and fortunes to astounding restorations and are then able to maintain those cars, in far better than showroom con

SHARE THE PASSION I acquired my 1988 GD Mazda 626 Turbo hatchback via an advert I saw on Gumtree. I negotiated a sale price with the owner over the phone and transferred a deposit, sight unseen! I just knew these were a rare commodity – when did you

MARCH 29, 1974 saw Volkswagen commence production of the Golf, a record-setting model for the brand. But at the time Volkswagen hierarchy was more than a little edgy, as its new car was a small hatchback with a front, inline-engine and front-wheel dr

Can anyone ever forget the ‘man on a mission’, Kowalski, in the original classic-car chase movie Vanishing Point as he fled the law in his pearl-white ’70 R/T Dodge Challenger, leaving a trail of carnage, wounded cop egos and sadly, in the movie’s fi

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ELEVEN YEARS ago, the idea was raised at a monthly Thunderbird club meeting to conduct a car cruise from four separate areas in Melbourne, to the Royal Children’s Hospital to make a donation for the Good Friday Appeal. The state director at the time

FOR LOCAL car nuts the introduction of Holden’s Monaro, a locally born and bred performance coupe – represented a coming of age for Australian-designed cars. In a feature on the HK-HG series, Cliff Chambers writes: “Australians during the 1960s acqui

Donington – Collector Motorcycle Auction Date: May 20 – June 2, 2024 Guiding Range: $TBA Visit: doningtonauctions.com.au TRIUMPH’S Thruxton 1200 is arguably the most convincing cafe racer produced by a major factory in the last couple of decades. Tha

I’M SURPRISED at times by the variety of things that unexpectedly bring memories of life’s milestones in to sharp focus: a random stranger’s mannerisms for first-love recollections; towns on maps for various lucky escapes; a Cooper S Mini like the Do

The Most Beautiful Car In The World, Jaguar’s E-Type, has an older cousin which didn’t come with a Le Mans heritage or frantic drive through the darkness, to make its media launch on time. Jaguar’s XK120 arrived almost as an afterthought; a car to sh