BEACH PARTY

NOOSA CONCOURS BRINGS A SLICE OF PEBBLE BEACH ELEGANCE TO QUEENSLAND, WITH EXOTIC CAR QUALITY TO SUIT.

PISTON BROKE

GLENN TORRENS SILENCES A SINISTER SOUND FROM HIS RESURRECTED 1981 HOLDEN COMMODORE'S SIX-CYLINDER ENGINE

1979 LOTUS ECLAT

COLIN CHAPMAN’S Lotus marque was famous for many things, but there was nevertheless an underlying theme of light and nimble cars.

1972 RAMBLER JAVELIN

BILLED of AMC's entries into AS one of two the pony car market, the Javelin was effectively the corporation's answer to giants of the sector such as Mustang and Camaro.

1956 FORD CUSTOMLINE

FORD’S locally-assembled Customline range became something of a legend among Australian customers keen to have something with plenty of room and decent power.

1966 HOLDEN HR

WHILE THE 1960s is a very long time ago, a lot of the cars out of that era are still doing good service, mostly as weekend toys.

1974 FORD XB GT

THERE'S ONE guaranteed way to get local can enthusiasts worked up: Go and unearth a desirable car that's been hidden in a shed for decades.

1966 LOTUS TRIBUTE

SHOULD THE mood take you to get a sixties car with a strong motorsport connection, a MkI Ford Cortina would be a good choice.

1956 AUSTIN HEALEY 100M

THERE SEEMS to be a period in the fifties and early sixties (last century) when the Brits were producing some eye-popping sports cars.

1992 CORVETTE C4

LONG, LOW and sleek - the vast majority of Corvette generations have made a visual statement that's impossible to miss.

2004 LAMBO MURCIELAGO

LAMBORGHINI’S flagship Murcielago had an extraordinary nine-year model life, selling 4099 units.

MODERN CLASSICS GUZZI RACER

MOTO GUZZI'S SHORT-LIVED 4-VALVE DAYTONA WAS TRACK-BRED

BUICK RIVIERA

MARKETING A two-door ‘personal’ car wasn’t new territory for Buick, but within three years of reviving the Riviera name, its stunning new design was selling 45,000 cars a year into a sector dominated by Ford’s Thunderbird.

FERRARI 348/355/360

THE EARLIEST of these midengined Ferraris now rate as historic cars and are eligible for serious savings on registration. Not that the prospect of saving a few hundred bucks is going to make much difference to someone about to outlay $200K on two seats and a Prancing Horse.

LOOKING TO THE WORLD

IT IS HARD TO GO PAST THE PRANCING HORSE AS A ROCK SOLID INVESTMENT

ONE MAN'S TRASH...

THIS WRECK sold for a staggering A$2,913,934 by renowned auction house RM Sotheby’s at the Monterey Car Week last month.

MOFFAT MUSTANG BIBLE

THE MOST comprehensive book about arguably the greatest car in Australian motorsport history, Allan Moffat’s TransAm Mustang, is ready for preordering.

Steve Coleman 1994 FORD CAPRI XR2

THE LAST GENERATION CAPRI MIGHT NOT BE FOR EVERYONE, BUT IT CERTAINLY HAS A CULT FOLLOWING

CADDY SHACK

A SHARED PASSION FOR CLASSIC AMERICAN AUTOMOBILES LED TO THE CREATION OF AN ECLECTIC COLLECTION OF SHOW-STOPPING CARS COVERING THREE DECADES OF DESIGN BRILLIANCE

COLONIAL CAPERS

THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING IN OUR VICTORIAN-ERA WATER JUDGING BY THE SUBSEQUENT CAREERS OF THESE VISITORS FROM THE SCEPTRED ISLE

WHAT DO YOU RECKON?

AFTER ENJOYING THE LOFTY HIGHS OF A BRISK SUNDAY DRIVE, GLENN TORRENS SUFFERS A SIGNIFICANT LET-DOWN. BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN FAR WORSE...

CRISIS AVERTED

THE BOXSTER AND MORLEY WERE FANGING ON BACK ROADS UNTIL THERE WAS A FUNNY SMELL. GENTLY BACK TO THE MBC THEN

PONY PLAY!

BOTH ARE LIMITED EDITIONS AND SHAPING UP AS MODERN CLASSICS. THE QUESTION IS, WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOSE?

RARE GMH LION ZZ/Z GEMINI

AUSTRALLIA'S BIGGEST SELLER, A CAR OF THE YEAR AND BATHURST WINNER, THE GEMINI SPAWNED MANY LIMITED EDITION MODELS LIKE THE ZZ/Z

MIGHTY MOPAR!

CHRYSLER WAS THE LAST OF THE BIG THREE TO OFFER A HOT VERSION OF THEIR FAMILY SEDAN. AND IT WAS FABULOUS

1972 FORD XA GT

FEW CARS exemplify the glory days of Aussie muscle cars as well as an XA GT hardtop.

1974 FORD FALCON XB GT

FOR MANY, an XB GT in a loud seventies colour, with a 351 in the snout, is the epitome of the Australian muscle car.

1985 PORSCHE CARRERA

PORSCHE’S REVIVAL of the Carrera name in 1984 (it previously finished in 1977) marked the adoption of a huge number of upgrades for the 911.

1959 MGA TWIN-CAM

FOR FANS of MG’s elegant post-war MGA, the twin-cam is something of a holy grail.

1984 - FORD SIERRA XR-8

ONLY 250 MUSTANG V8-POWERED SIERRA XR-8S WERE BUILT FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN MARKET. KEITH MARICICH’S HAS FOUND A QUEENSLAND HOME