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The original Gran Turismo: 1955 Lancia Aurelia GT

From its debut in 1951, Lancia’s Aurelia Gran Turismo was hailed as one of the world’s finest cars Older readers may remember New Zealand Classic Car’s irascible columnist, Gabriel — and

The pie-man cometh: 1978 Porsche 911 SC

  View fullsize Over the past few years I’ve been fortunate enough to follow Targa New Zealand events around most of the North Island. My main priority during these trips

Tony Quinn picks up Hampton Downs

It’s the start of a new chapter for Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, as it has recently been purchased by Highlands Motorsport Park owner and Australian pet food magnate Tony Quinn. Hampton

The fabulous thirties: 1938 Chevrolet

  View fullsize During the course of any given month, the myriad number of cars that are shuffled in and out of our purpose-built photography studio is nothing short of

Jack Brabham: a motor-racing legend

Regular New Zealand Classic Car columnist Donn Anderson has won this year’s MotorSport New Zealand Feature Journalist of the Year award with his ‘Jack Brabham: a motor-racing legend’ article published in our July, 2014

The history of Meremere: part two

  “Kevin Shaw takes a look at how New Zealand’s oldest dedicated drag strip came to be, and gives thanks to those who made it all happen” A bit like

Aero warriors: three Nascar icons

  “The glory days of Nascar racing may never happen again, but that hasn’t stopped one dedicated Auckland family from reliving them” From moonshine runners racing to get their fresh

Update: all good things take time

Back a few weeks we gave you a look into what the upholstery in one of Parkside Media’s senior management team’s Triumph TR6 looked like (see here). Well now we

Who is Mickey Thompson?

“We uncover who the man is behind one of the most legendary names the automotive world has ever seen” AJ Foyt, Don Garlits, Dan Gurney, Richard Petty, Parnelli Jones —

Whipped Up: Woolfy’s day out

As a well-known hero of Kiwi motorsport, Alan Woolf has been around for a while, and every now and then you’ll see him out at a track with one of his classics. I got