Articles by Mike Ryan

Reigning Touring Car Masters champion, John Bowe, will swap his TCM Mustang for a Classic '65 Corvette when he competes in the 'Monterey Motorsports Reunion' race meeting at Laguna Seca raceway in California this August.

Triple Eight Race Engineering will lose the backing of Vodafone at the end of the 2012 V8 Supercars Championship.

One of the highlights of the media launch for the JUST CARS GEELONG REVIVAL 2012 was the appearance of Graham Alexander's 1960 Maserati Tipo 61. One of only 22 examples originally built by the famous Italian manufacturer, Graham's car is valued at over $1 million, a pretty conservative estimate given that a Tipo 61 with race provenance sold for over $3.1 million at auction in 2010.

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Ford Cortina, the Cortina Mark One Owners Club of Australia Inc. (CMOOC) present the first ever Australian Cortina Nationals this Queens Birthday long weekend at Albury.

The third annual 'Festival of Speed' staged at Victoria's Winton Raceway's long circuit, is set to feature over 250 historic racing and display cars worth many millions of dollars.

While some of the big-dollar lots failed to reach their marks at Shannons Melbourne Winter Classic Auction on June 4th, the love for Aussie classics remains, with a classic FJ ute one of the most impressive sales.

Korean car manufacture Hyundai planning on a return to rallying in 2013 to fight for the World Rally Championship.

Ford recently lost one of its design luminaries in Wayne Draper, who passed away on May 24th after a long illness.

In the 1970s, the famous 'Stutz' marque returned to the automotive limelight, albeit in a different form to the sports cars that had made the name famous in the 1920s. The revived Stutz offered a range of lavishly-appointed, retro-styled vehicles, with prices to match. The preferred ride of Hollywood glitterati, sports stars and more than a few pimps, a low mileage example of this piece of '70s excess has been consigned for Shannons Melbourne Winter Classic Auction on June 4th.

RACV Motorclassica, Australasia's premier award-winning Concours d'Elegance and Classic Motor Show is pleased to announce details of its 2012 Collector Car Auction. The first lot of note to go across the blocks this October is a Lamborghini Miura S formerly belonging to iconic English fashion model, Twiggy.

This weekend, Auctions America by RM will be hosting their 'Auburn Spring Auction' in Auburn, Indiana. One of the more interesting lots to feature at this auction is a one-off Mercury Marauder convertible.

As a tribute to the passing of Carroll Shelby, Aussie Shelby owners are invited to participate in a "Rev Your Shelby" salute to the performance car guru - this morning, Australian time.