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Meet one of the most maligned cars in the past Century of motoring. Not the best way to introduce our feature car, I grant you! But when you bear in mind it's also one of the most misunderstood, the story of the Corvair takes on a whole different shade.

Organisers of the inaugural event, Terry Molloy and Gary Watson, had put together a weekend based around meeting the owners, creating lasting friendships, as well as a laid back cruise taking in local tourist events and a display day with free public entry finishing with a dinner at the hosting motel Sunday night.

The name Max Ellery should be familiar to all readers of Just World Cars magazine and we're sure there are many of you who have bought books and manuals from his established Strathfieldsaye Auto Books business. After spectating at the Lake Gairdner Speed Trials in past years, Max decided to do a run on the salt himself on 2006.

Finally the wraps are off the new VE Holden.

Holden have a new hero car in the Astra SRi turbo.

With the amount of Mazda RX-7s still on the road today, you may be surprised to learn that the RX-7 has been out of production for close to 4 years and official Australian sales have been non-existent for the better part of a decade.

While car makers today speak of building vehicles on a universal platform, that enable different models - and in some instances different makes - to efficiently utilise common architecture, Holden had actually embarked on this strategy back in 1975.

Car of the Year in 1968. Number 20 in Car of the Century polls. A technical tour de force and probably the best clothing of any sedan built in the 60's, 70's or 80's.

Few cars stir the senses more than the sight and sound of a red-blooded Falcon GT HO in full flight. In Phase III form, the GT HO was the ultimate Aussie muscle car of the early Seventies.\nFord launched the world's first 4-door GT, the XR, in 1967 and there were few who would have dreamt that this was the start of an era. The XR began the legend and today the XR, XT, XW and especially XY GTs have become the most collectible Australian built cars.

The Mazda MX-5 is the embodiment of everything that a sports car should be! It was first unveiled in 1989 and seventeen years later it remains a classic two seater.

Volkswagen have reinvented the Kombi van - a classic wagon from the Sixties!

Chrysler has increased the appeal of its retro PT Cruiser range with the addition of a soft top convertible.\n

In the past month or two, just about every Aussie would have been guilty of jumping on the Socceroos World Cup bandwagon to some extent. And why not? When you see a good thing - get on board, I say!

British car mag "Autocar" wrote a pretty damning piece about the RV8. Good for the flat cap brigade but not much chop as a Nineties sportscar.

The all new Nissan 300ZX sports car went on sale in Australia on December 8, 1990. With a mission to create "the world's best sports car", Nissan's design team created a new Z car which was more powerful, more aerodynamic and more sophisticated on every detail than the car it replaced.

The HQ Holden Series brought about major changes and improvements to all Holden variants. In many quarters the HQ Holden was heralded as the most significant Holden to date since the original 48-215.

Regular readers of Just World Cars will remember that we featured an EH S4 in the May 2003 issue.

I know the answer to the ultimate question - it's 41. I even know how many people can be crammed into a Mini - 17. What I don't know is why the early people at Holden spelt the alphabet backwards.

To celebrate the millionth Minor in 1961, Morris realised a limited edition...

It was the eighth Holden model since 1948. In a period of 18 months more than 250,000 EHs were sold making it the fastest selling Australian car ever.

It was late in 1969 that word of an all new sports car bearing the Datsun badge started circulating and, to be blunt, the enthusiasts were less than excited.

All motoring enthusiasts know the story. The E-type was the ultimate sports car; the XJ-S not a worthy successor - more a softie.