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.

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Big Al’s company car • This historically significant Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III has led an eventful life with several official FoMoCo roles, famous drivers, misadventures and twists and turns. So much so, the fact that it lives on today is something of a minor miracle. Not only does it survive, it’s now in the hands of a most appropriate owner – for more reasons than one.

Gold rush • Like all good gold rushes, Calder’s 1970s Marlboro Sports Sedan Series erupted in a fevered frenzy, saw fortunes won and lost, and was good while it lasted. At its peak, the Calder series played host to some of the best sedan racing – featuring some of the wildest, most brutally powerful racing sedans – that this country’s ever seen.

Before the XR GT Ford’s fabulous Customline V8! • Before the XR Falcon GT, there was the Ford Customline. It was an important pioneer not just in Ford’s Australian V8 performance heritage but also in touring car racing - and it was the car in which Norm Beechey got his start in the sport.

Mr Pink • He’s perhaps best known on the east coast as the man with the pink touring cars, but there’s so much more than that to the colourful story of West Australian racer Tim Slako.

Both sides of the aisle • In this extract from the new Colin Bond biography, Full Tilt, co-written with John Smailes, Bond talks about life as Peter Brock’s team-mate at the Holden Dealer Team in the early ‘70s, of the difficulties working under team boss Harry Firth, and of his ‘defection’ to Ford at the end of 1976 and the following two tumultuous seasons racing Falcon Hardtops with Allan Moffat.

Miedeckes and the Mustangs • Who said motorsport doesn’t sell road cars anymore? Port Macquarie Ford dealer Andrew Miedecke Ford and its boss George Miedecke is living proof that the ‘win on Sunday, sell on Monday’ mantra is alive and well in 2025 Their GT4 Mustang is winning races on the weekend and the new S650 Mustang is flying off the showroom floor during the week.

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