Australian Muscle Car

Australian Muscle Car is a fresh, proudly Australian publication dedicated to preserving the legend of the unique ‘Australian made’ Ford vs Holden muscle car heritage. From 1960s classic Bathurst muscle to the super sophisticated Falcon and Commodore performance cars of the new millennium and everything in between.

Steve Normoyle

Australian Muscle Car

PI Classic road trip

Escort survivor

Cooma motor museum

WIN this FPV GT R-Spec model

Auction update

Murray Carter book

Gnoo Blas is back

Mystery Bimmer

AMC BEST LETTER

Wally’s Words • The importance of the other side of motor racing

Adventures with Brocky: tales from Peter Brock’s PR chief

Paul Newby

HSV fighter! • Most racing drivers dream of one day taking their car to Bathurst and tackling Australia’s most iconic circuit. Some make it to the Mountain but most don’t. This is the story of two who did in their VF HSV ClubSport, in the 6-Hour production car race. But there is a twist to this tale which connects to things which are more important than even muscle cars and motor racing.

Skyline sunset • Around the same time as the relationship between Peter Brock and Holden was fracturing, and Holden was exploring setting up a new special vehicles division – what would become HSV – a rival Australian manufacturer was also creating its own special performance arm. Unlike HSV, Nissan Special Vehicles Division did not last the test of time – but the manner of NSVD’s demise turned out to be something of a sneak preview of HSV’s fate decades later. Bruce Newton spoke to one of the driving forces behind NSVD, Paul Beranger, about those heady days in the late ‘80s, and the development of what just might be Australia’s finest naturally aspirated six-cylinder sporting sedan.

Trans Am for the 21st century • They’re not direct descendants of the Trans-Am glory days from 1966-’72, but this is Trans Am 2022-style – and it’s quickly established a strong foothold down under.

Wall Racing

My Muscle Car • A pair of well-kept, yellow V8 muscle coupes, 15 years apart, from opposite sides of the Ford/GM divide. For the past three years these two have lived alongside one another in the same garage – but they’re not part of someone’s prized collection of pristine muscle cars. Both of these one-owner cars serve as daily drivers – and always have done. Australian MUSCLE CAR magazine co-founder Ray Berghouse didn’t set out to create this unique yellow Monaro/Mustang twin-set, but love (of cars) can sometimes work in mysterious ways…

Your Car Here!

Retro Vision

Don’t Call Me Mad Andy • Like contemporaries such as John Bowe and Larry Perkins, Andrew Miedecke’s racing career can be seen in two distinct parts: the openwheeler years and the later spell in touring car racing. It’s for that reason we’ve split this Muscle Man feature across two issues, kicking off with the open wheelers – because there’s a lot to tell in a career that’s spanned more than 50 years, and isn’t even over yet. It might have been one which didn’t yield the same success enjoyed by Bowe and Perkins but, just like Bowe and Perkins, ‘Mad Andy’, as they used to call him, was as good as anyone, anywhere, regardless of whether or not the car had a roof on top.

Island magic • Thanks to Covid there was little international participation in this year’s Phillip Island Classic Historic meeting but, with a huge field of local cars – plus a big turnout of ‘historic’ V8 Supercars that included Larry Perkins among the drivers – it was a truly classic weekend on all fronts.

Full circle • When he was a kid, Troy Perichon was a helper at Mick Webb’s workshop, working on the AUSCAR Falcon XF raced by Jim Richards. Nearly 34 years later and things have come full circle, as Troy not only owns that very...