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A gentle mechanic
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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Four-wheel drive fallacy – part 2
by Brian Goulding – – – In my previous article on 4wd competition cars, I wrote about the success, or rather lack of success, of four-wheel drive cars in Formula One. This time I want to explore the efforts of…
Four-wheel drive fallacy
by Brian Goulding – – – Many motor manufacturers use four-wheel drive on their powerful (and not so powerful) road cars as a method of ensuring a more efficient transfer of drive to the ground, especially in wet and slippery…
Ford Australia’s Archive
by Peter Robinson – – – The battle over Ford Australia’s precious archive, raging since 2015, finally seems to have settled. There’s still one major step before all parties are happy, but, crucially, the vast majority of the archive stays…
The wild ways of Wally Warneford, motor racer and undercover policeman
by Andrew Moore – – – For those of us who read Racing Car News in the 1960s and 1970s, the name Warneford may strike a chord of recognition. No issue of RCN was complete without an advertisement for a…
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The Graham Howard papers: a jewel of the Australian Motor Heritage Foundation
by Andrew Moore – – – Graham Howard (1937-2013) was the doyen of Australia’s motor racing historians and a highly respected journalist. Brian Caldersmith described him as ‘Our Doug Nye, Eoin Young and Denis Jenkinson all rolled into a quiet…
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