by David Williamson – – – I was 14 on that warm January afternoon in Auckland in 1958, when, together with my mate Tom, we rode our bikes to Newmarket. We were hunting … looking for Grand Prix cars stored in the many car-sales showrooms along Great South Road, as we awaited the upcoming NZIGP […]
Newsletter – December 2025
On behalf of everyone at the Australian Motor Heritage Foundation (AMHF), I would like to extend our warmest wishes for a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Visitors to AMFH Throughout 2025 we welcomed visitors to our home base at Sydney Motorsport Park. Among them were international motoring journalist Mel Nichols, John Connolly (automotive […]
Hillclimb Results project at AMHF
Last month, the Foundation was fortunate to borrow a large number of Victorianhillclimb results from the Gippsland Car Club for scanning. The Morwell hillclimb(later known as Gippsland Park) operated between 1965 and 2008. We now have240 additional Official Results in our “Results” collection, including many Victorianand Australian Championship events. Some may be unaware that a […]
Gordini Gathering
Andrew Moore and his R8 Gordini were at the first national Gordini meeting for the AMHF The name of Amadee Gordini is well remembered in French car circles around the world. The magnificent Schlumpf National Automobile Museum, in Mulhouse in the south of France, features many Gordini sports and racing cars. Gordini came to be […]
The Australian Table
by Peter Robinson – – – This is the story of a humble Italian restaurant: Trattoria del Sole, on Monte Isola in Lago d’Iseo, Lombardia, Italy. Except, on the trattoria’s near waterfront terrace, there’s a special table facing the tiny island of San Paolo, owned since 1916 by the Beretta family, the world’s oldest armaments […]
AMHF volunteers at the HSRCA Spring Festival
Our very own AMHF volunteers at the HSRCA Spring Festival at One Raceway (Goulburn). It was absolutely freezing for Practice on Friday. Snow was forecast but did not eventuate. Howling winds and periodic horizontal rain did. Saturday Qualifying and Racing was also very cold (4 degrees C until around lunchtime) but little or no rain. […]
Official Race Results project at AMHF
August saw another milestone moment with over 2,000 Australian race meetingsnow covered in our collection. Competitors would be aware that after 1999, themajority of meetings are captured and accessible in the excellent Natsoft database.But there is no equivalent National or State archive for any events prior to that. Asjust one example, more than 50 Australian […]
Holden’s crazy Wombat super ute
by Peter Robinson – – – (This story first appeared in Wheels, June 2025) This was a scoop so fantastic that few readers believed it. Did Holden really conjure an electric-powered supercar, a rival for the Bugatti Veyron, that also just happened to be a ute? All true. And here’s the proof. Until now, the […]
Review of The 1978 Ford Falcon XC Cobra Hardtop Register
by Peter Robinson – – – Wheels magazine’s Steve Cropley was trusted with ferrying a new Ford Falcon XC Cobra from the company’s Broadmeadows headquarters to Bathurst for the 1978 Hardie Ferodo 1000. No, it wasn’t one of the Moffat/Bond race cars, but Cobra no. 027, one of 30 race specials, which was to be […]
