Articles by Iain Kelly
23 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
Building race tracks is brutally expensive, so would you jump on an opportunity to buy a race circuit with genuine historical significance for the princely sum of $80,000? Harcourts Wine Country are the listing agents...Read more
23 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
Jaguar arguably owned the Le Mans 24 Hour in the mid 1950s, with their C- and D-type racers blasting a hole through sports car racing the world over. What some don't know is the famed English manufacturer eyed a return...Read more
19 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
Today the Internet burns as Chevrolet unveils the new, eighth-generation Corvette. The mid-engined C8 is a departure from the classic FR-layout sports car Chevy debuted back in 1953, but fans of America’s Sports Car are...Read more
19 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
Many of us will have seen the videos of guys supercharging cars using leaf blowers. While both Roadkill and Mighty Car Mods did their videos tongue-in-cheek one man in Western Sydney wasn't laughing. Police discovered...Read more
15 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
With the impending launch of the new, mid-engined eighth-generation Corvette collectors have gone crazy to buy the the last example of the previous C7 Corvette for USD$2,700,000 (AUD$3.8 million). Sold at Barrett-...Read more
11 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
It takes a lot to stand out in Hollywood, and celebrities often turn to custom car builders to help them do this. Robert Downey Junior was one such celebrity who commissioned the carbon-fibre wizards at SpeedKore to...Read more
11 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
Hollywood A-list stars often spend their hard-earned on cool cars, and Kevin Hart is no exception picking up an epic 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda known as "Menace". Built by SpeedKore, a carbon-fibre specialist shop in the USA...Read more
8 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
People who love mid-engined supercars and exotics don't tend to go for old American muscle cars as the pushrod beasts tended to go around corners as well as a wheel barrow full of wet cement. But what if you could build...Read more
5 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
The battle between late-model Japanese tuner cars and traditional muscle cars never dies down, so what happens when you want to bridge the gap by building an early '70s Pontiac Trans-Am with all the grip of an early ‘...Read more
5 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
“Mad” Mike Whiddett and Eduard Nikolaev race two of the craziest vehicles in motorsport, with Mad Mike having just finished his Lamborghini Huracan drift car Eduard hucking South American dunes in his Kamaz Dakar Rally...Read more
3 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
Car fans it is time to pour one out for a man who changed the automobile in ways few will fully grasp. Lee Iacocca led the development of the Ford Mustang and Pinto, and saved Chrysler from going bust in the 1980s, so...Read more
3 July 2019 by Iain Kelly
Cars today can become celebrities in their own right, and one of Australia's most well-known cars around the world is the 1987 Toyota Cresta owned by Benny "Mechanical Stig" Neal. Originally built as a 10-second sleeper...Read more
26 June 2019 by Iain Kelly
A massive drop in sales, poor market reception, and a shift in culture at parent company General Motors are being touted as the causes for a rumour spreading through the American auto industry that Chevrolet has shelved...Read more
24 June 2019 by Iain Kelly
If you are a car enthusiast and your dad had a ridiculously rare car which he built into a unique custom back in the early 1960s, you would probably want to track it down and find it. When the car in question is a 1947...Read more
24 June 2019 by Iain Kelly
Some people are happy with their lot in life, but then there are punters like Melbourne's Andy Billiet. Andy loves his 1967 HR Holden sedan, but figured it would be even beaut-er as a two door pillarless coupe. The...Read more
21 June 2019 by Iain Kelly
Going out and buying a new car seems like an exciting thing to do on...Read more
20 June 2019 by Iain Kelly
Marty and Moog from the hit YouTube show Mighty Car Mods have built a plethora of cool cars in their 11 years on-screen, and they’ve just embarked on a new project sure to fire up the comments section. Both boys love...Read more
20 June 2019 by Iain Kelly
Lancia won six straight World Rally Championship Constructor titles (and four Driver’s titles) from the debut of the Delta Integrale in 1987, making it the greatest Group A rally car and what many regard as the greatest...Read more
20 June 2019 by Iain Kelly
Ford's 2020 Shelby GT500 Mustang is set to slay everything from General Motors and Chrysler. The Blue Oval crow the top-dog pony car will be their fastest ever Mustang , packing an insane 760hp. While the 2019 Chevrolet...Read more