Articles by Mike Ryan

On 12 February, four years to the day since it dropped into a sinkhole that opened up in the ‘Skydome’ section of the National Corvette Museum (NCM) in Kentucky, a ’62 Corvette made its return – fully restored - to the Skydome’s main display.

One of the world’s rarest and most unusual cars was recently added to the collection of the Gosford Classic Car Museum (GCCM) in the form of a 1966 Amphicar 770

Mazda has released a high-spec, limited-edition version of the MX-5 RF (retractable fastback) that’s exclusive to Australia.

Following its announcement last year, the limited-edition, rear-wheel drive version of Audi’s R8 supercar has been confirmed for Australian delivery from April.

Across the four major auction houses – Bonhams, RM Sothebys, Barrett-Jackson and Gooding & Co. – in action at January’s Arizona auction week, Gooding & Co. led the field with the top-selling vehicle.

After a swift rise to prominence in the collectable car auction scene in Australia, Mossgreen has experienced an even faster fall, collapsing in late January with debts of $12 million.

Marking 70 years since the “conception” of the original VW Transporter, which evolved into numerous variants, including the much-loved Kombi, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has released a limited-edition special – the Multivan ‘Kombi 70’.

Volkswagen Group Australia (VGA) recently unveiled a very special vehicle in the form of a 1951-model Beetle.

Perception, as defined in the Cambridge English dictionary, is a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem. It can also mean being aware of something through the physical senses (sight, sound, touch, etc.). Misconception is defined as an idea that is wrong, based on a failure to understand or faulty thinking. The latter usually follows the former, and in the case of the car featured, these two nouns have come together quite often.

A largely forgotten footnote in Jeep history, the 1948 Jeepster was Willys’ attempt to broaden the peacetime appeal of their wartime winner.

Jaguar Classic is re-starting production of the iconic D-type race car in Coventry, 62 years after the last example was built in 1956. The first Jaguar D-type to be assembled by Jaguar Classic, an engineering prototype, will make its world debut at the Salon Retromobile show in Paris this week.

To help unveil the MY19 Bullitt Mustang at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Ford presented a piece of genuine Mustang history in the form of one of the original GTs used in the filming of Bullitt in 1968.