Category: Repco Heritage

After selling Falcons sourced from America during the 1960s, Ford of South Africa elected to change direction by importing the Australian equivalent in 1969 to immense popularity

Following a successful period during the early 1970s when the Holden Torana GTR XU-1 won multiple Australian Rally Championships in the hands of Colin Bond and Peter Lang, the factory effort changed direction to the Gemini by the close of the decade

As it’s Melbourne Cup Day, what better theme to cover than a horse-themed model and Subaru’s tough Brumby ute fits the bill

Ford had an early crack at GT3, but results lacked and the project ended with barely a whimper

Back in 1986, the advent of Group A touring cars ensured for the first time all major championships were aligned with the same regulations allowing contenders from down under to take on the world

Dominating touring car racing both locally and internationally during the early-1990s, two Nissan Skyline GT-Rs will highlight this technological warfare at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival on March 16-17

As Holden was to Australia there was a plan to develop New Zealand’s own mass produced model, but it never came to fruition

Revealed in 2000, Ford’s R5 concept led onto an actual concept for the next generation Falcon and is arguably the ultimate AU

Despite it being strictly a truck manufacturer in current days, Hino did once produce car models and in the 1960s led to a brief foray into racing

Electricity is becoming the main power source for new road vehicles, but it also provided the start for many motoring enthusiasts through the power of Scalextric