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2025 Adelaide Motorsport Festival TV special produced in collaboration with Retro Rides to air on Nine this Sunday
You’ll want to park yourself in front of the television this Sunday, April 6, when the 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival highlights show hits your screens, offering a unique look at the March event.
History in the making: Ford Australia celebrates 100 years
To mark Ford Australia’s centenary year, a special “History in the Making” event will be held in Melbourne on Friday April 4, 2025.
March 2025 Auction Report: Plenty to Like, But Some Prices Decline
Retro Rides’ Market Analyst Cliff Chambers has plucked the best from roughly 300 car and motorbike lots during March 2025, finding that while there was plenty to like, the value of some models has declined quite noticeably.
Book Review: Cool Mavericks
Cool Mavericks is a new book that documents the fascinating history of automotive air conditioning in Australia and New Zealand, profiling many of the mavericks and entrepreneurs that embraced the idea long before the car industry woke up to it.
How Ford Australia’s secret prototype skunkworks helped create legendary vehicles
When Ford Australia pulled down the curtain on nearly 90 years of Aussie manufacturing in 2016, most people would understandably have thought that was the end of the Blue Oval building cars at Broadmeadows.
Berry Motorfair Revs up for a Bigger and Better 2024 Show.
Berry Motorfair revs up for a bigger and better 2024 show.
Aussie Company to Solve Classic Car Electrical Gremlins With New Online Resource
Classic car enthusiasts who’ve ever faced the frustration of being unable to repair or replace a crucial electrical component will celebrate the arrival of a new Australian online parts resource.
Holdens Everywhere but Not Too Many Sales
Holdens have been prolific at recent auction sales and remained flavour of the month at Lloyd’s Classic and Barn Finds Auction in late August. However, on the hottest Queensland winter’s day in 20 years, many bidders had seemingly headed for the beach.
Auction Action - Results from the latest Aussie Auctions
High-Flying Holdens Hit New Auction Highs It is common to hear the term ‘two speed economy’ uttered when comparing personal earnings or the trade deficit, but not when considering car auctions held a few suburbs apart on the same day in the same city.
Sold This Week: 1978 Holden HZ Premier
It took 77 bids to determine a winner for this tastefully modified 1978 Holden HZ Premier when it sold for $50,200 this week on Trading Garage. The last of Holden's full-size sedans at that time, the HZ was in production for three years until the smaller Commodore was introduced in 1980. As the last of its lineage, the HZ was kept visually similar to its HX predecessor, although Radial Tuned Susp…
The National Holden Motor Museum finds permanent home
Visitors to the scenic NSW north Coast city of Coffs Harbour now have a reason to visit other than a milkshake at the Big Banana, following the reopening of the iconic Bunker Gallery which now includes National Holden Motor Museum exhibits.
Canberra Festival of Speed announces dates for 2025
The Canberra Festival of Speed is locked and loaded for 2025, with dates announced for the Australia Day weekend. Held in Thoroughbred Park, Lyneham, over 200 of the world's most desirable road and race cars are set to be present on Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26.
Adelaide Motorsport Festival Locked In For 2025
After a successful running in 2024, the date for next year’s Adelaide Motorsport Festival has been confirmed. The 2025 Adelaide Motorsport Festival has been pulled forward from the last to the first weekend of March.
