Articles by Mike Ryan

For a decade or more, Catalina Park Raceway, was one of the most popular race tracks in the country… now it’s been lost to nature.

Ahead of the end of Australian vehicle manufacturing operations for both Ford and Holden, most of Australia’s state and territory police forces started the move to imported vehicles!

Electric motor and battery pack can be applied to any XK-engined Jaguar

AMG marks 50th Anniversary with Formula 1 car for the road

In 1964, Carroll Shelby asked fabricator John Ohlsen to take a Daytona Coupe, the fixed roof version of the Cobra, and lengthen the chassis and body to allow the standard 289ci V8 engine to be replaced with a larger 427ci NASCAR-spec V8. Shelby’s goal was to produce a “secret weapon” for that year’s Le Mans 24-Hour Race.

First new TVR in more than a decade unveiled at Goodwood Revival. Customer deliveries expected from 2019.

In historic touring car racing, there are die-hard, one-make, one-model, one-car racers who swear they’ll never race anything else. Phil Barrow is one such racer. Phil and his FJ make for a great story.

Last year’s 25th edition of Historic Sandown was one of the biggest and best historic events ever hosted at the suburban Melbourne track.

For nearly 50 years, the Geelong Sprints brought a magnificent collection of classic sports vehicles to Geelong’s waterfront for the classic ¼ mile sprints, attracting many of the world’s best drivers including Sir Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss, Dick Johnson, Jim Richards and Alan Jones.

A Ford that never was is made a reality by a talented family.

Take a glorious Italian sports car body and add a reliable Ford V8 engine, then price it at half the cost of your competition. The De Tomaso Pantera of the early 1970s put supercar ownership in reach of the common man.

Most come to Noosa on the Sunshine Coast for the beaches and weather, but twice a year this holiday spot also plays host to arguably Australia’s toughest hill climb.