This week’s Terry Marshall BLAST FROM THE PAST comes from Wigram in January 1975. Paul Fahey in the Cologne Capri hunts down Jim Richards in the Sidchrome Mustang. Check out the battle damage on both cars! As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic!
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While motorsport seems to have caught Hollywood’s attention again (for better or for worse…), it is easy to forget the incredible amount of utterly brilliant motorsport documentaries that pop up each year. The latest of those is “Speed Sisters”, a documentary that is in production now that tells the story of the first and only all-female, […]
Of course, you should always wear a seatbelt. Sometimes not for the reasons you would expect though…
This week’s BLAST comes from BayPark in 1974 and features a collection of very serious muscle. Graham Baker, in the PDL Mustang, leads Allan Moffat in the #33 Mustang, Red Dawson (Camaro), Paul Fahey (Cologne Capri) and Rod Coppins (Pontiac Firebird). As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the wonderful pic.
In this video a bunch of people are told that they are going for a ride in Nissan’s latest version of the Altima racing car. They are excited. Even when they see what appear to be some very lightly modified road cars. Even when they see the bizarre, obviously fake interiors. Even when they sit […]
Autoweek has a brilliant and touching article written by Alain Prost about his old rival Ayrton Senna 20 years after his death. In the article Prost describes their first meeting when he picked a young Senna up from the airport: I met him first in 1984 at the opening of the new Nürburgring GP circuit, […]
Holden has announced the return of one of our favourite-ever hot hatches – the Astra VXR – along with a number of other European-sourced Opel/Vauxhall vehicles to wear the Holden badge in the down-under markets. While no doubt a bid to appear “a bit less Korean” following the imminent demise of the Commodore, the return […]
Autocar’s Steve Sutcliffe drives the Ferrari LaFerrari. Stupid name, but a very, very good car. Apparently.
Now, we are not entirely sure if this is a genuine ad from Subaru Russia or a clever amateur attempt – we don’t read Russian, after all – but it is brilliant either way! Set up like a ubiquitous Russian dash-cam video, it features a woman running over a dog. Not the best premise for […]
It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it in German, but Mini New Zealand is planning a remake of a famous scene from one of New Zealand’s most loved movies – the Lake Hawea chase scene from ‘Goodbye Pork Pie’ The scene will be re-cast with the winner from an online competition and a […]
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