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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.

    1938 Ford Coupe-Ute

    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.

    1962 Volvo P1800

    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.

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    Aussie Auction Scene: September 2024 Auction Report

    Ford Falcon XC Cobra V8 among a host of best buys in this month’s Auction roundup. During September, as clearance rates for residential property dropped to around 60 percent, activity in the market for classic vehicles held firm.

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    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.

    Toyota AE86 reproduction body shell

    Replica Toyota AE86, FJ40, and Land Rover Defender body shells surface on Alibaba

    These vehicles might have been out of production for years, but we can see a number of good uses for these made-in-China replica body panels.

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    Australians Can Now Purchase New Mopar Hemi V8 Crate Engines

    If you’ve got a tired old Jeep or Valiant at home that could do with a liven up, then Mopar Australia might have just the thing for you in the form of two new Hemi V8 Crate engines.

    Distinguished Gentleman's Drive event in Brisbane

    Thousands of Classic Car Drivers Set For The 2024 Distinguished Gentleman's Drive

    The event has already raised more than US$333,450 for men's mental health charity Movember.

    1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Spider

    Christie's Re-Enters The Classic Car Auction Market Through Acquisition of Gooding & Company

    The British-based auction house sees this as an opportunity to diversify its offerings amid a declining art market.

    rudi Klein sale

    World's Most Enthralling Junk Yard Goes to Auction

    Motoring enthusiasts love the chance to poke around yards full of wrecks from years gone by, but hardly anyone has been behind the walls of a Los Angeles-based business previously run by eclectic collector Rudi Klein.

    James May driving a Triumph Stag

    The Grand Tour Finale Spikes Huge Uptick In Classic Car Searches

    The UK's Auto Trader website reported as much as a 793 percent surge in users searching for Triumph Stags like the one James May drove in the two-hour special.

    bentley t series

    How The Bentley T-Series Brought Revolutionary Engineering to the Famed British Luxury Marque

    Introduced in 1965, the Bentley T-Series was luxury sedan range that was largely identical to the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, with the main difference being its distinctive Bentley grille.

    Anantara Concorso Roma

    Anantara Hotels & Resorts Presents a New World-Class Historic Car Concours

    Anantara Concorso Roma is a three-day homage to automotive craftsmanship that promises to bring together some of the rarest and most significant Italian historic cars ever, against the backdrop of historical Rome.

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