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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.
A restomod ute? Isuzu has unveiled a surprising Holden Rodeo throwback
Unveiled at the 2025 Bangkok International Motor Show, the one-off Isuzu Dragon Max shows there may well be a market for turning even the most humble of utes into a flashy restomod.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
