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A decision has been made on what to do about the sinkhole that opened up under the Skydome section of the National Corvette Museum (NCM) in Kentucky, but the fate of the cars damaged in the February 12 event is still far certain.

Australia's premier automotive exhibition, Motorclassica, has been confirmed for 2014, with this year's fifth annual running of the event to take place at Melbourne's historic Royal Exhibition Building for 24-26 October 2014.

In the 60th Anniversary year of the iconic D-Type, Jaguar has confirmed they will produce a limited number of production versions of the 'Project 7' concept revealed last year in honour of Jaguar's seven wins at the Le Mans 24 Hour race.

Originally built to thunder around super-speedways at 200mph, not all 1970 Plymouth Superbirds wound up bangin' fenders on NASCAR's high-banked ovals.

A rust inhibitor and penetrant that's been the first choice of classic car enthusiasts and restorers in the UK, Ankor Wax is now available in Australia, through Busnbug.

Like a fine wine, 1960s performance cars seem to only get better with age and Andrew Conway's immaculate 1969 SS 396 Camaro is proof.

To mark the 30th Anniversary of the Variety Bash, six State and Territory Bashes will hit the roads across the country consecutively this August with the colourful convoys converging for a spectacular grand parade in Sydney.

On the weekend of July 19-20, Meguiar's MotorEx Melbourne will be the epicentre of Aussie horsepower! The groundswell of prominent performance businesses that have stepped up to take a stand in the show's massive Liqui-Moly Performance Garage is proof positive of that.

Built to thrash five-litre Trans-Am racing, Ford's Boss 302 Mustang showed everyone muscle cars aren't just about the standing 400m sprint. Earlier in the 1960s, the focus of the major American manufacturers had been on drag strip-destroying big-block muscle cars, but late in the decade, a new form of motorsport competition rose to prominence, one where cars were required to stop and corner, not just go fast.

At Mecum's Seattle auction on June 13-14, a restored 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda reset the benchmark for American muscle cars, selling for a staggering US$3.5 million (AU$3.72M approx).

Supported by JUST AUTO, the Kids Under Cover charity's Donate Your Car program has received another classic, in the form of a 1966 Humber Sceptre MkII.

Officially unveiled today, the GT F will be the full-stop to the FPV brand. Ahead of the close of Ford's local manufacturing operations in 2016, Ford Performance Vehicles will be wound up later this year.

The most powerful GT sedan ever produced by Ford Australia, the FPV GT F is powered by a 351 kilowatt supercharged 5.0-litre V8 engine. The GT F's output was specifically chosen as a reference to the iconic 351 cubic-inch 5.8 litre V8s that powered the original Falcon GTs.

Shelby's Focus ST shows the famous American performance house isn't just about Mustangs.

Auction house, Theodore Bruce, has announced entries are now open for select consignments for this year's RACV Motorclassica auction.

A Gold Coast Ford enthusiast is celebrating after securing build number "351" in the limited run of 500 FPV GT F sedans.

The Gasolene Muscle Car Expo revved up the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne for its second straight year with an even better collection of American and Australian classic muscle cars than its 2013 debut.

Brite Lightning is a new metal cleaning and polishing product that every auto workshop should have.

Red Fox frames specialises in the creation of windscreens and frames for hot rods and vintage cars.

No discussion of modern performance cars would be complete without including Shelby American. Carroll Shelby was there at the dawn of the performance era with the AC-based Shelby Cobra, followed by the GT350 and 500 Mustangs.

Lexus Australia has confirmed the RC 350 coupe and RC F performance coupe will be heading down under, with local availability from late 2014 - early 2015.

Hennessey are performance upgrade gurus of long standing in their native USA. Earlier this year, they set a new Guinness World Record with their blisteringly quick Lotus-based Venom GT, but the Hennessey range stretches beyond these high-end supercars, with the Texas-based firm also producing upgrade packages to suit Audi, Bentley, Cadillac, BMW, Dodge, Ford, Jeep and even McLaren.

Fiat's Abarth performance arm has celebrated its 50th Anniversary with the launch of a special '50th Anniversary' edition of the 595 Abarth.

While adding more performance to your streeter always means adding dollars, it doesn't always mean adding a LOT of dollars. Case in point being the 2003 BA XR6 Turbo pictured, which owner Luis Sola has turned from a tired teacher's car into a 10-second strip weapon.