Photos courtesy Travis McKimmie. It’s merely a fluke of the design and manufacturing process for the HG Holden ute: a gap between floorpans not present in sedan or station wagon versions. However, Fr...
What is the scoring system the Telegraph used in its England versus Australia decade-by-decade car comparisons from a few years ago? And how exactly did they choose the cars to represent the decades?...
Photos via Mitch Vickers. Typically, you buy the car first, then the license plate. In Australia, where number plates can be bought and sold separate from a car, one collector of Holden’s luxury mode...
Retired racer Tommy Kendall doesn’t know much about who painted a 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight yellow and added a rooster head and tail to it, but he’s not complaining, as this Wall Street Journal st...
Photos courtesy Mossgreen. The Australian auction house that last year aimed to set a record for the most expensive car sold in Australia – and prior to that, claimed the record for the most expensiv...
Editor’’ note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
Date: circa 1957 Location: Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Source: Wolfgang Sievers photo, via National Library of Australia What do you see here?
Date: May 1952 Location: Pacific Highway, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia Source: Queensland State Archives via Lindsay Wilson What do you see here?
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. A crash and fire might have taken the first Holden Dealer Team-prepped car out of its very first race, but that front-page event also provided the key to the team’...
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Smokey and the Bandit,” Horsepower Memories went in search of as many original film locations as they could find in the Atlanta area. * Former Hemmings Sports an...
Jack Brabham’s BT-19 in the National Sports Museum in Melbourne. Photo by Bahnfrend. After a report outlined serious deficiencies in the Australian government’s ability to keep culturally significant...
Restored one-of-six 1935 Ford roadster utility for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1935 Ford Roadster Utility “ute” is one of only 6 manufactured that year. From a contact i...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. After more than four months, Australia’s Taxation Office has canceled its effort to reclaim a six-figure tax incentive from the Aussie Invader la...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. Setting the world land-speed record requires highly advanced computer engineering models, precision machining, and plenty of derring-do. It also ...
Date: circa 1970s Location: Rose and George streets, Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia Source: Ran When Parked Yes, there really is a town called Wee Waa. What do you see here?
Hackaday, which normally focuses on Arduinos and other hardware hacking projects, recently examined the Lotus Seven and decreed it one of the most hackable cars. It’s always encouraging when the DIY/...
What’s the likelihood of running across your first car? If it’s something as durable and as distinctive as Steve Rall’s 1949 Packard, probably not that low. The Lincoln Journal-Star tells the story o...
With the big annual Bathurst race coming up, let’s check out a Bathurst from nearly 40 years ago with the 1977 running up Mount Panorama. ( via ) * Who doesn’t want to experience the Pegaso’s desmo V...
As Mac at Mac’s Motor City Garage described this 1966 promo for the Chevelle SS 396, it’s bad – not so bad it’s good, but still fascinatingly bad. Whoever Chevrolet hired to produce it must’ve concei...
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up t...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every Austr...
Photos courtesy Burns and Co. It all started with a trip to Detroit. Specifically, to what as then known as the Henry Ford Museum, where a young Charlie McCarron saw both the first and last Ford Mode...
Date: circa 1957 Location: Surfers Paradise, Queensland Source: Gold Coast City Libraries, via Have You Seen the Old Gold Coast on Facebook What do you see here?
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...