The ARDC is not only our strategic Partner at Sydney Motorsport Park but also the landlord. The Club’s commitment to growth in the interests of the motor sport community has already brought big beneficial changes. Think of the terrific night racing! And it has been a generous host to us since 2019, a social good. […]
Newsletter – April 2023
A Night of Speedway Nostalgia – 28 April
A Night of Speedway Nostalgia is scheduled for 28 April 2023, at Royal Automobile Club, Sydney – spaces limited
Volkswagen Phaeton: the best engineered failure in motoring history
by Peter Robinson Volkswagen – the People’s Car – remained true to this humble philosophy throughout its existence. At least until 1997 and the arrival of a series of W12 concept supercars in 1997 that didn’t look much like cars for the people. Few thought VW boss Ferdinand Piech was serious about taking on Ferrari […]
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Pioneer in Aviation
Two books, reviewed by Garry Pritchard and Hugh King The Library at the Australian Motor Heritage Foundation holds two books from the first decade of the 20th century, with contemporary accounts of the aviation activities of an extraordinary man. Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman and inventor, and is said to be one of the […]
Newsletter – March 2023
We are over and done with the summer holiday season. I was overseas twice, double-dosing on the marvellous post-pandemic freedom of travel. I am not sure that our hard-working team really noticed my absence, and that was a fantastic outcome. We have helped to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the CMC (NSW), our marvellous early […]
45 years with a special car
by Brian Caldersmith I always admired Colin Chapman and his designs, especially from an engineering point of view. Breakthrough after breakthrough, advancement upon advancement, was routine in the development of his cars. Few people caused a law change because of their designs, and I know of no other whose cars were banned because they were […]
Racing Guru: Brian Goulding
Catalina Park… much missed by Brian Goulding In December 2015 my wife and I spent an enjoyable couple of days at an old fashioned guest house at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. We were with another couple and on one rainy morning both wives wanted to go shopping. I saw this as a golden opportunity […]
National Motoring Heritage Day – 21 May
National Motoring Heritage Day is scheduled for 21 May 2023, at the Berry Showground, Berry
Escort disaster
by Peter Robinson Ours was not the most jovial table in the dining room of the Geneva airport’s Movenpick Hotel that Saturday evening in August 1990. We dithered over the fish, sipped the Chardonnay and looked, well, embarrassed. Guilty that our hosts, the people responsible for the car we’d been driving all day, were paying […]