We all know GM’s Holden and Ford built cars in Australia. Some might even recall that Chrysler tried it for a little while too. But that barely scratches the surface of all the interesting cars that ...
Most car enthusiasts know about Australia’s ubiquitous utes, the car-based pickups that inspired America’s own versions such as the Ranchero and El Camino, but these icons from Down Under are rare in...
Photos courtesy Aussie Invader. On the one hand, according to Rosco McGlashan, plenty of people have told him that they too intend to build a vehicle that’ll break the world land-speed record, typica...
Photo courtesy Australian National Motor Museum. It’s not difficult to find a fault for the demise of the Hartnett Motor Company, one of the few companies to offer a challenge to Holden to become Aus...
Holden Hurricane. Photo courtesy GM Media. With last month’s sudden announcement that GM will kill off the Holden brand as it pulls out of right-hand-drive markets, Australian government officials ha...
SFers, look out for Ralph Ziman’s “ Spoek 1,” a former South African military vehicle that has been abandoned, restored, and decorated by Zulu, Shona and Ndebele artisans, which will appear at this w...
All images courtesy GM Media. For a division that built distinct production cars for nearly 70 years, Holden – which GM officially terminated over the weekend – built surprisingly few concept cars. T...
Photos via Manheim Even though Holden stopped building cars in Australia two years ago, it will nevertheless be possible to buy an Australian-built car from the Australian arm of General Motors when ...
It does exist! A decade ago, I mentioned that one of the Strick cabunder prototypes still exists in Germany, and thanks to a post on Truque, it appears we’ve found it still in operation as a “ platea...
Before embarking on his quest to break the world land-speed record, Rosco McGlashan was an exhibition drag racer who piloted jet dragsters, much like the Arfons brothers. McGlashan also decided – onc...
Photo via Travis McKimmie. A little more than a year after threatening to crush one ute enthusiasts’s dream vehicle and throw him in jail for as long as a decade, French Customs authorities instead r...
How did Australia come to give the world the ute? As Unique Cars pointed out this week, there’s two conflicting reports on the origins of the coupe utility, and naturally, both Ford and Holden vie fo...
McGlashan with the Aussie Invader III. Photos courtesy Lloyds. When collector-car dealer Tony Denny set up shop in Australia five years ago, he aimed to build the country’s largest car museum-slash-d...
Date: 1960s Location: Mooloolaba Esplanade, Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia Source: Sunshine Coast Council on Facebook, via Lindsay Wilson What do you see here?
While there are other races on the Australian Touring Car Championship schedule, other circuits around Oz to turn a tire in anger, it’s Bathurst (technically the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, N...
In case you missed it, the entire hour-long Save the Texas Dune Buggy rally in front of the Texas state capitol – which took place this past Thursday – is still on the Save the Texas Dune Buggy Faceb...
Photos courtesy Lloyds. No country’s performance-car market collapsed nearly as fast and dramatically as Australia’s. Within a week of a blockbuster 1972 headline decrying supercars capable of 160 MP...
Steve McKelvie let us know this week that Scott Henderson, a Great Race rally driver who notably helped save a Buick that lost its brakes from tumbling off the Mount Washington auto road this past su...
Photos courtesy Lloyds, except where noted. Presale bids for four of the cars from the collection of vehicles owned or raced by Australian legend Peter Brock have already exceeded half-a-million doll...
TheDieselDartGuy showed up on the AACA forums recently to show off the Nissan six-cylinder diesel-powered 1974 Dart he bought new, one of a handful converted shortly after they left the factory to de...
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. What a Ford can do, a Holden can do better? Now that the first Australian car has broken the seven-figure ceiling, a collection of racer Peter Brock’s Holdens has ...