BIGGEST LOUDEST FASTEST

That is what defines SPINFEST

If you like:

Modified Cars ...

Motorbikes ...

Sound Off...

CAASQ 2007 Round 1 ...

dB Drag Racing 2006 Final  Round...

Aftermarket Products/AutoAlley & Car Dealers ...

Extreme Sports...

Skateboarding ...

BMX...

Big Air ...

Extreme Sports celebs...

Kiteboarding ...

World Champs Chris Vermeulen ... Josh Constable ...

Surfing clubs & schools...

Wakeboarding ...

Alternative Alley...

Music ...

Video/DVD...

Computer Games...

Body Art ...

Boutique Shops...

Interactive Stalls ...

Gamers' Challenge...

Hip Hop & Break Dancing ...

House DJs...

BeatBox Comp and Rap Off ...

Tattoo Contest...

Chopper Read and...

Prizes ...

100s of Cars & Stalls....

Give-aways and More !!!         

Then you had better get yourself along to spinfest,

at Quad park Kawana. 9/12/06

We'll be there with, set up with Sunshine Coasts Audi and couple of our good cars and keen to see Chris Vermuelen and "Uncle Chop Chop"

Come and check out our:

• Brock 1987 VL Commodore
• F 350 Transporter
• The PUNISHERS GT2 Porsche

www.spin-oz.com

AutObarn Caboolture Grand Opening!

Come along on the 10th of December to celebrate this store's

GRAND OPENING!

The Bowden's Own crew will be on hand to help make this a brilliant day, with prizes, storewide discounts and personal instructions

from the various manufacturers who are attending.

we will have on display our:

• Brock 1987 Bathurst winning VL Commodore

• 1955 300SL Gullwing

• Moffat F350 Transporter

Autobarn Kawana

Birthday

PARTY!

18th/11/06



Come along to the Kawana Autobarn to help celebrate this milestone with them.

There will be excellent store wide discounts and special offers from the manufacturers involved, so its well worth your time.

We will be there with a couple of cars on display, some give aways and as always ready to answer your questions about Bowden's Own and the cars we make the products for!

Come and check out


Brocky's 1978 Bathurst, Sandown and ATCC winning A9X Torana
Either the Moffat Phase 1 on 2 XWGTHO Falcon
Moffat's 1969 F-350 "Coca Cola" Transporter
See you there!!

AUTOBARN KAWANA

224 Nicklin Way, Kawana Waters, QLD, 4575

PH: (07) 5493 3955

Noosa Hysteric Hill Climb

A real drivers event and probably my favourite track to have a spirited run on. But if you don't treat it with respect, it will bite!

The Noosa Beach Classic Car Club and the HRCCQ co-run the event and do a damn good job I might add. Set in beautiful National Park, on some of the twistiest bits of tarmac on the Sunshine Coast, this is a premium event for competitors and spectators alike.

The event generally attracts around 170 competitors, ranging from early 1930 racing "specials", to road going supercars like my 1963 Falcon Sprint (heh-heh). If you like seeing powerful cars getting sideways, in the type of surroundings your better half will appreciate, this is the event for you!!

We will be racing our

• 1963 Ford Falcon Sprint (Class winner 2003, First loser 04, 05,06)
• 1973 911 Carrera RS Porsche (Class winner 2003, 2004, Chickened out 05 & 06!)
  

John English strutting his 6 pack stuff.

It's going to be muscle car madness! Going from last years pre-73 touring car group, there will be at least;

• 8x 1964-1970 Mustangs, ranging from 289's to 429's and one 66 Shelby.
• 9x GT Falcons; XR, XT, XW, XY, XA & XB .
• 1x HK GTS 327 Monaro (Starlight blue, just beautiful)
• 1x 1968 Rambler Javelin.
• 1x Torana GTR XU-1
• 1x Crazy Dutchman in a BMW 2002
  and the dark horse...
• 1x Leyland P76

With a capacity field of 160 hi-performance, classic and muscle cars, it is going to be a big weekend!

Come along, say hello and get trapped in the corporate tent, just tell them Phillip "Hollywood" Ross from Shannons sent you.

www.noosacarclub.com.au

11th and 12th of November.

The Hillclimb is on Gyndier Drive, Tewantin, about 10 minutes drive west from Noosa

Redcliffe Grand Opening!

November 11-12th

Come along to see this great new store, with 20% off storewide, it will be good!!!

2 Morris Road West, Rothwell, 4022

3204 8422.

Open for trading from the 21st of October

"SHARKFEST"

BMW 6 Series

Picture courtesy of autopics.com.au

30 year anniversary celebrations

30 years since the beautiful 6 series hit our shores. What is it about things made in 1976 that are SO GOOD !!!!

If you haven't gathered, we are big fans of the JPS 6 series Beemers and were honoured when the 6 series register approached us about hosting the event at Bowden's Own HQ. Got a 6 series and want to come along? Then contract Greg on the details listed below.

Friday Nov 3

Arrive at designated Motel at Kawana in time for registration and meet n greet dinner at the motel.

Saturday Nov 4

10am    Show n Shine at Bowden's Own HQ.

6.30pm Dinner and presentation.

Sunday Nov 5

9.30am approx   Day run to the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Following one of the Bowden's over some of the special stages of the Suncoast Classic Tarmac Rally, to be run in 2007. We will be stopping at a designated venue for lunch (own cost) and then after that we go our own way. Some back to the motel (if you are from interstate) and those of us from Brisbane, back home.

For further details, contact;

Greg Tymms

6 Series owner and BMW Club Qld member

Ph:07 3865 3663  Fax:07 3865 3661

Gold Coast All Ford Day

Get along to the Carrara sports precinct on saturday to check out the inaugural Gold Coast All Ford Day. There are a couple of V8 Supercar teams confirmed and with some mad Victorians making the big trip plus heaps of SE QLD and Northern NSW Hot Henry's coming, this has the makings of a great day!!

We will be displaying a Mr Moffat Triumvirate:

• 1973 ATCC winning XYGTHO "Number 9".
• 1969 Sandown winning XWGTHO Phase 1.
• F-350 Transporter.

So if you like anything to do with 4 wheels and the blue badge, come and check out this great day!

Peter Brock Tribute

at the Supercheap

Bathurst 1000

Excerpts from an AVESCO press release:

A perpetual ‘Peter Brock Trophy' will be awarded to the winners of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 and a flowing tribute to the legend of Australian motor sport featuring many of his winning cars along with his co-drivers will be held before this year's iconic Australian race begins.

V8 Supercars Australia will dedicate the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 to Peter Brock with the permanent trophy that all drivers will aspire to win and walk in the footsteps of the great man. It will be etched with the words Peter Brock Trophy and underscored with ‘King of the Mountain'.

The front row of the starting grid in 2006 will also be left vacant as a dedication to his achievements at Mount Panorama. Brock still holds the record for the most pole positions with six starts from number one on the grid.

All V8 Supercars competing at the event will also be supplied with 05 decals, the number that Peter Brock raced in that was retired by the sport in 1997, to apply to their cars.

“This is a great honour for our family and we deeply appreciate it,” said Lewis Brock, brother of the great racer.

V8 Supercars Australia is attempting to source as many of the cars that Peter Brock won with on the mountain for a Champions Lap of Honour.

It is hoped the cars will be driven by Peter Brock's son James, former co-drivers Brian Sampson, Jim Richards, Larry Perkins, John Harvey, David Parsons and Peter McLeod, based on their availability.

Present day drivers Mark Skaife and Craig Lowndes, childhood prodigies of their hero and mentor, will also be invited to drive in the parade depending on the availability of cars and former co-drivers.

The Champions Lap of Honour will be driven at low speed to give fans time to reflect and say a final farewell.

This will be followed by a special homily to be delivered by V8 Supercars Australia Chaplain Gary Coleman followed by a minutes silence as a mark of respect.

Iva Davies, an Australia icon in his own right, will then perform his version of ‘Heroes' to a montage of footage featuring the life and times of Peter Brock.

This will be followed by the national anthem, the formation of the grid and the start of the 2006 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 at 10.00am.

An outline of the Bathurst Peter Brock Tribute on Sunday October 8 is as follows:

9.00am: A ‘Gathering on the Grid' of family and close friends

9.02am: Champion's Lap of Honour commences

9.22am: Chaplain's Address

9.24am: One minute's silence

9.25am: ‘Heroes' performed by Iva Davies

9.30am: V8 Supercars form in pit lane

9.35am: Australian national anthem

9.40am: Pit exit opens

9.45am: Cars assemble on the grid

10.00am: The Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000

The nine cars that Peter Brock drove to Bathurst wins were:

1972: Holden Torana LJ GTR XU1

1975: Holden Torana L34 with Brian Sampson

1978: Holden Torana A9X with Jim Richards

1979: Holden Torana A9X with Jim Richards

1980: Holden Commodore VC with Jim Richards

1982: Holden Commodore VH with Larry Perkins

1983: Holden Commodore VH with Larry Perkins and John Harvey

1984: Holden Commodore VK with Larry Perkins

1987: Holden Commodore VL with David Parsons and Peter McLeod

What a great race and weekend!

I don't think we would be alone in thinking that Craig Lowndes was a very deserved winner (Along with Jamie Whincup too!) and the Brock tribute was very moving. It was a nice touch just sending the cars around slowly, letting everyone drink it in, so kudos to whoever thought of that.

It is hard to believe PB is gone, and after watching that race unfold, I think he is still around in some way?

Well done to all involved in making a HUGE and emotional weekend a success.

Noosa Beach

Classic Car Show 2006

The Noosa Beach Classic Car Show, is a what you would call a "pleasant" event. It is very well run and always has a wide selection of interesting cars and people.

Combine this with shady trees and the close proximity of the cafe and shopping mecca that is Hastings St, and you get an event that is very....well, pleasant!

October the 1st, at that nice little park on the left,

as you head into Noosa Heads.

www.noosacarclub.com.au

Grand Opening Day!


The Sherrins (Of Sherrin hire fame) have built a multi-million dollar, multi facted motorsport retail/ workshop outfit. It is the only place I have ever visited, that can rightfully claim the title of a one-stop motorsport shop.

If you like things that go fast, or stuff that makes your thing go faster, then this place will blow your mind. It is amazing!

We are very proud to be involved with this new retail concept and will be there on the opening day with the:

1964 Ex-Thorpe Competition AC Cobra

A broad selection of Porsche, Ferrari, BMW and Lambo race cars.

www.sherrinmotorsport.com.au

Opens 30-9-2006

from 9am-5pm.

MacGregor

GRAND OPENING DAY!

AutObarn MacGregor will be opening its doors to trade on Monday 25th and the Grand Opening Event will be on Saturday 30th September.

It's their largest retail store with a total footprint of over 1330sqm!!!!

To help celebrate the event, we will have on display our

• 1978 Brock A9X Torana
• Moffat F350 Transporter
• WIN some Bowden's Own product and HEAPS of other GREAT stuff.

Autobarn MacGregor

1/583-587 Kessels Rd , MacGregor

(07) 3349 9899

Bowden's Own heads to

Logan City AutObarn 23/9/06

Get along to AutObarn Logan City and meet the crew. By popular demand the 1978 PB A9X will be there & you will be meeting Dan, please sure to ask him for his autograph!

We will have on display:

• Peter Brock's 1978 A9X Torana
• Moffat F-350 Transporter

60 MOSS STREET

LOGAN CITY QLD 4127

PH:    (07) 3208 1288

"2006 Bathurst Legends"

Mighty Roger Ealand, despite a severe nationality impediment, is a very good operator. The eccentric pom and his merry gang of revheads are set on one agenda for Speed On Tweed;

"better, not bigger."

It's already got the best automotive festival atmosphere on the Eastern Seaboard by a country mile. With a couple more tweaks to the track and Roger's hell bent attitude on improving Speed on Tweed's already brilliant, family fun atmosphere, this is going to be an event sooooo good it will be outlawed; purely on the grounds of having way too much fun.

For this year, further track and spectating improvements have been made and Roger wants at least 60 world class (Read mind blowing!) cars zooming around the challenging street circuit that constitutes a Speed on Tweed event.

Being an energetic Pom named Roger, he gets what he wants. So your going to be seeing GT40's, Lola T-70's, Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing's, D Type Jag's and Genuine 1963 Falcon Sprint's!! (heh-heh). Getting driven very hard by people who are afraid of getting a Right Royal Rogering.

Along with the nightly festivities that allow race cars paraded on the main street and open air dining on fine food and bloody nice beer.

We will showing our;

• 1970 Bathurst winning XWGTHO "64E"
• 1987 Brock Bathurst wining VL Commodore
• 1973 Porsche Carrera RS , driven by Dan "Gurney" Bowden
• & keeping in the theme of the event, we will have a couple of   "Bathurst Legends" along too (Stay tuned... :- )
  

Gurney in the Ex John Dawson Damer, 1973 Carrera RS, desperately trying to get a Rogering.

Also appearing will be;

• Patron of the event and all round legend, Vern Schuppan.
• KB.
• Alan Moffat.
• Just to make sure everything is going OK, Frank Gardner.
• Roger Ealand in something suitably silly.
• Clive Noonan, of Noonan Motorsport fame, in something sillier.
• Ex- Frank Gardner Mk 3b Lola T-70 (Look it up kids, this thing is pure horn!)
• 1964 / 72 Mk1 Ford GT40 ( Yes there will be 2 real ones)
• D-Type Jaguar (If one needs to ask....)
• Indianapolis Offenhauser special
• Heaps of Muscle Cars comprising of Mustangs, Monaro's, Camaro's, GT Falcon's and Torana's.
• If Becks are sponsoring it again; lots of hangovers on sunday morning.

Speed On Tweed is located in Murwillumbah (Mur-wool-um-bah), just 20 minutes south of the Gold Coast Airport in Northern NSW.

The event runs on the 15th, 16th and 17th of September.

www.speedontweed.com

BE AFRAID.

It will be that good, your head will hurt.

Fathers day just got a damn site better,as far as the crew at Bowden's Own are concerned!

The big boy's at Chevron Publishing and the A.R.D.C. have decided that the two dates should be as one and create a day that rev head dads will REALLY appreciate.

Bugger socks and bodgy aftershave, If you want to see an awesome display of Australia's greatest muscle cars and the legends that drove them.

Make sure you keep September 2-3rd, 2006 free as can be.

Going from what happened at a washed out 2005 event, 2006 is going to be MASSIVE!!

We will be bringing our:

• 1965 Geoghegan Mustang
  
  

• The Superfalcon

• KB Camaro

September 2 - 3rd 2006.

Eastern Creek Raceway, New South Wales.

www.chevron.com.au/musclecar_masters.html

WOW, what a big weekend!

HUGE fields of Group C and A, plus a massive field of Group N. All of which were record breaking!!! Not to mention more legends and legendary cars than you could poke a tonne of sticks with.

It was good and it was BIG!

Huge thanks to all the people at Chevron and the ARDC and of course, all the entrants, without you all it would be just a dash boring?!!

The master blasts were super good fun, with all cars performing well enough to really please the crowds. They are a great format and really thin the excuses for not getting your legendary car out there and racing around.

Another big thank-you to all the people who gave us the thumbs up about our products and the cars that we look after. We really do appreciate being appreciated and it makes those big trips very worthwhile.

Bring on the masters 2007!!!!

Nostalgia Drags at

Willowbank

This is a day dedicated to all things cool and automotive.

Everything racing is Pre-1975 and the entry list will top 300!!

It is going to be H - U-G-E & most importantly F-U-N!!

August 13th, gates open at 7am, qualifying at 8am and racing at midday.

Willowbank Raceway, Ipswich QLD.

Check out the website by clicking on the above image, for all the details on this great event.

We will be racing our;

• 1963 Falcon Sprint
• 1966 GT Fairlane
• & hopefully Anthony Tenkate's weapon 1967 Mustang
• Clive will bring something suitably silly to run.

Click on the photo above to learn more about the Drags.

That's me in the Sprint and David in the Cobra lining up. We bought the Ron Thorpe Cobra at the last moment, when the GTA wasn't going to be ready. I don't think anyone minded...

We had a great day!! Thanks to Wayne from Cruzin Mag and Roly Leahy, plus anyone else who told us to get along.

Now you're going to have trouble getting rid of us!!!!!

QLD Historics 5-6th of August

Chev's are it for this grrrrrrrreat weekend.

With Group C, Group A and Group S all competing this is going to be brilliant!!!!!!

Get along to Queensland Raceway this weekend and enjoy our great and booming Historic Racing series!!

We will have on display our;

• KB Camaro
• F-350 Transporter

Check out www.hrcc.org.au for more details

2006 Muscle Car Shootout Photo's

Not sure if the shootout is worth the effort? The check out

some of the great photo's from

www.dealphotography.com.au

It's mostly the on track stuff, but shows why more and more people are coming from well interstate to compete in this cracking little muscle car bonanza.

Suncoast Classic Media Launch

Come along to Gympie Terrace in beautiful Noosa to attend the media and official launch of the Sun Coast Classic, to be held in July 2007.

We will be there to support the event and will have on display our;

• 1955 300SL Gullwing
• 1971 Wild Violet XYGTHO (Ex John French)

10.30am-12.30pm, 18/07/06, Gympie Terrace, opposite the Boathouse

Floating Restraunt. For more details contact Bob Carpenter on 0427 242454

What a nice way to spend mid-day. Surrounded by dignitaries and legends and even high up police, who like the idea of a chance for people

to have a 'legal' hoon.

This is going to be a corker event!! Get in quick to avoid disappointment!

This is myself and Sir Jack and our Gully at the media release. He is obviously quite impressed by how close I am and I'm clearly not VERY happy to hang out with someone like him.

Evening of the 28/6/06

Bowden's Own heads back

to Townsville!

Where it all started for the collection; Early 1974, Townsville.

Up until David saw the Phase 4, all the GT's in the family were turned over. It was love at first sight, a collection was started and the rest is history

To learn more about the team and why we are making our own car care products, come along to an open night for all car enthusiasts. You'll learn all about our cars and how we look after them & how you can look after yours.

Nibblies and beverages supplied.

Born at Lot 6 Mahoney's rd Victoria and shipped to Townsville QLD, the mighty Phase 4.

Queensland

Vs.

Victoria

1 Weekend of pure

grudge match racing.

A group of cheeky Mexicans from Victoria are coming up to Queensland to compete in the annual Muscle Car Shootout, held in the middle of May.

They have been openly boasting about how their cars, driving and beer is vastly superior to that of the local, more humble Queenslanders.

The quiet locals have been provoked enough.

To quote Douglas "Chippo" Chippendale:

"We shall beat them on the race tracks and we shall beat them in the pubs. No Victorian is coming up here and beating us in any way, shape, or form."

I feel that, while Chippo is correct, the Vicco's will definitely beat us at losing,

as they are very good at that.

The above story is what started it all. BORT member Phil "Grunt" Grant decided to slag off QLD beer,

whilst talking up his negligible driving ability.

While we agree with him, our local beer is mostly crap. Only WE can say such things.

Now the Vicco's are going to PAY.

• How the QLD Racers are going to do it:

• Chippo is going to furiously polish his dipstick
• Marty White is going to triple turbo charge his Mustang
• Gurney might show up
• Shane Cowham is going to remove thy finger.
• Jim Hodgson is going all out in his Sports Sedan ultra rare 1964 Mustang Fastback; He's taking out the cigarette lighter & putting helium in his tyres.
• Paul McCamely is going to incite easily angered FPV owners into actually racing their cars.
• I'm going to take the air filter off the Falcon Sprint.
  

• What the Victorian racers are going to do:

• Wet their pants.
• Come up with some brillant excuses (Weather's always a good starter lads).
• Bring up a keg of VB.
• & if in the unlikely event that they win: Cheat.

The 2006 Shannons



Muscle Car Shootout



The Grudge begins...

Get your Muscle Car along to Warwick's, Morgan Park Raceway, for a couple of days of HORSEPOWER HEAVEN!!

Promoter Paul McCamely is at it again, organising what will be a great weekend for people who love watching old cars go fast. For people who love racing their old cars in a safe environment, this will be an EXCELLENT weekend, maybe even the best of the year!

All who attended 2005's event praised the track and the event,

promising to make 2006 bigger and better.

Competitors will be coming from all over Australia

to attend this cult race meet.



We will be running our:

1963 Falcon Sprint. PLUS...
A couple of Mad Victorians coming up in TC Cortina's
Chippo in the dirty old maroon 1966 Mustang.
A couple of very historic ex-Bathurst E49 Big Tank Chargers
Heaps of GT falcon's
Torana's of all makes
Camaro's
Corvette's
MOPAR's
Phil "Grunt" Grant will be lurking around the ladies toilets.
Anything Muscle is going to be there in an abundance!!


Practice on the Friday. Just rock up with all the relevant gear and $75.00.
Gates open 7am on the Saturday and Sunday to watch the racing.
Special parking will be set aside for Muscle Cars, so bring them along for everyones enjoyment!!
Racers should rent a shed for the weekend, only costs $50.00.
Make sure your cars are looking pretty for the Bowden's Own Show and Shine!
For further details, contact Paul McCamely on

musclecarshootout@hotmail.com

2006 Muscle Car Shootout

Morgan Park Raceway, Warwick

19 (practice) -20-21st of May 2006

AutObarn Virginia Display Day

Come along to Autobarn Virginia on the 18th of March, to have a look at a couple of our cars and watch some product demonstrations.

Meet Dan and Chris and try and mooch some stickers off us!!

We will have on display our:

• KB "Channel 9" Camaro.

• XA GTHO Phase 4.

The family who own AutObarn Virginia are very nice people, with more than just a passing interest in hot cars and motorsport, so come along and support this great store!!

March 18th, from 10am.

1870 Sandgate Road, Virginia.

PH 3865 5553 for more details.

Brisbane International Motorshow

Those exceptionally good people who put on the Biggest motoring show that comes to "Bris Vegas", have invited us along this year to really add some spice to the event.

We will be displaying a timeline of Australia's Motorsport history;

• Series Production: Moffat's "64E", the 1970 Bathurst winning XWGTHO
  
• Improved Production: Beechey's 1970 ATCC winning HT GTS 350 Monaro
  
• Group C: KB Channel 9 Camaro
  
• Group A: Ex Richards & Longhurst JPS 635 BMW

For more details on what is a massive event, check out

www.brisbanemotorshow.com.au

3-12th of March, 2006.

At the Brisbane Convention centre.

Car Collection Tour

Click here for details on this first time opportuntity!

What a fantastic way to spend a couple of sundays.

To say that everyone at the Bowden's Own team was flattered by the level of attendance and the distances covered to get here, is a huge understatement.

People's reactions were very moving also, with many commenting that it was an experience of a lifetime. Guest appearances by KB and his mighty Camaro were lapped up, as was the chance to hear the GT40 and the even mightier Superfalcon.

I'm not at liberty to print what people wrote in our guestbook or emailed to us later, but those kind of positive messages are the perfect tonic for the excellence needed to outwit the big players in the car care game.

We are going to be the finest car care company in the world. And after hanging out with and hearing great feedback from the few hundred people we entertained over the last couple of weekends, we know that with our customers support that we are going to do it well.

To answer what everyone is asking: "Are we going to do it again?", very probably yes. But not in 06.

T

AUSTRALIA DAY

CELEBRATIONS AT

LOGAN CITY AUTOBARN

Come along to AutObarn at Logan City for Australia day.

The staff and management there want to are celebrate all things Australian, so expect people from Nulon, Bowden's Own & Penrite to be there ready to answer your questions and sign autographs.

We will be displaying our:

• Ex Geoghegan GTHO Superfalcon

hree top ten's for Australian Muscle Car colours: Iconic, rarest, and weirdest.

Because it too is a RIPPER

Australian car, that once

loved sticking it right up the imports.

From all the crew at Bowden's Own:

HAPPY

AUSTRALIA

DAY!

AutObarn Kawana Waters

Grand Opening

Come along on Saturday the 19th of December, to help celebrate the big opening of this brand new AutObarn store.

To help celebrate, we will have on display our

• Moffat F350 Coca Cola Transporter
• Moffat 1969 Trans Am Boss Mustang
• 1963 Falcon Sprint

Take advantage of the store wide specials, while quizzing Dan and Chris about Bowden's Own and the three beautiful vehicles on display.

AutObarn Kawana Waters,

224 Nicklin Way,

Ph 5493 3955 for more details.

Noosa Hysteric Hill Climb

A real drivers event and probably my favourite track to have a spirited run on. But if you don't treat it with respect, it will bite!

The Noosa Beach Classic Car Club and the HRCCQ co-run the event and do a damn good job I might add. Set in beautiful National Park, on some of the twistiest bits of tarmac on the Sunshine Coast, this is a premium event for competitors and spectators alike.

The event generally attracts around 170 competitors, ranging from early 1930 racing "specials", to road going supercars like my 1963 Falcon Sprint (heh-heh). If you like seeing powerful cars getting sideways, in the type of surroundings your better half will appreciate, this is the event for you!!

We will be racing our

• 1963 Ford Falcon Sprint (Class winner 2003, First loser 04)
• 1973 911 Carrera RS Porsche (Class winner 2003, 2004)
  

John English strutting his 6 pack stuff.

It's going to be muscle car madness! Going from last years pre-73 touring car group, there will be at least;

• 8x 1964-1970 Mustangs, ranging from 289's to 429's and one 66 Shelby.
• 9x GT Falcons; XR, XT, XW, XY, XA & XB .
• 1x HK GTS 327 Monaro (Starlight blue, just beautiful)
• 1x 1968 Rambler Javelin.
• 1x Torana GTR XU-1
• 1x Crazy Dutchman in a BMW 2002
  and the dark horse...
• 1x Leyland P76

www.noosacarclub.com

12th and 13th of November.

The Hillclimb is on Gyndier Drive, Tewantin, about 10 minutes drive west from Noosa.

What a great weekend! The old Falcon Sprint ran like a jet and the track was the best it has ever been. The track record tumbled down to 55 seconds and of 180 entrants there were only 4 crashes! Not too bad for a bunch of amatuers

The highlights were definetley Vern Schuppan in the 962 Porsche and KB in the Procar Monaro. To see a 962 belting up the hill amongst the gum trees, blowing flames while popping against the rev limiter was not only spectacular, but also kind of surreal, in the pinch yourself manner of surreality. HUGE thanks to Rob Sherrard for making all that happen. Bloody good effort! Plus congrats for winning your class in the GT40 (P1109).

In the pre-1965 Touring Cars over 2000cc, I managed a second (again) against Jim Hodgson and his ultra rare 1964 Mustang fast back. The car went well so, I'm pretty stoked with the result!

Bring on MORE of "The Hill"

New Zealand Targa

Look out for "Deals & Gurney" on the 24th-29th of October as they blast all over NZ in the 996 Turbo 911, for the Dunlop NZ Targa.

"Big Nige" will be in the LX A9X Torana Sheep Chaser too.

Check out www.targa.co.nz   for more details...

Well, what an eventful Targa NZ it was for "Deals and Gurney"!!

Big Nige did great, getting 2nd in class and 33rd overall, which has nicely acquitted the sheep chaser and its crew.

Deals was about 20k's into a 28k stage and decided he didn't like the colour of his Turbo 996 Porsche and put it over the edge at 100kph. Scott explains his emotions leading up to the fateful corner in his usual high pitched lisp: "Well the whole silver Porsche thing is just sooooooo two minutes ago. I got to the 19km mark and I was thinking how black, or maybe a nice magenta would be a much more unique colour, not to mention slimming, so I thought bugger it!! I'm going to pith this rolling tribute to mediocity down the cliff...It was only when I got all 4 wheels airborne I remembered it wasn't insured..."

The result of his decision was a very bumpy ride down a 250 meter slope. After 30 or so rolls, the hapless car was completely destroyed and the boys are very lucky to be alive.

Looking down from the road, at the slope Scott chose for his flight. Use the tree in the middle, between the two land slips as a guide for the next shot.

You can see tree from the above shot. The piece of silver on the bottom right is from one of the cars 15 impacts on the way down.

The view from the other side of the ravine.

Gurney had his own take on the event: "It was my fault, I blame myself: At the start of the stage, I told Scott to lay off the buffet breakfasts, as he was starting to fill out his race suit. He flashed a cruel look at me and muttered something about how silver always made him look fat. I knew then and there, he might do something drastic. I just didn't know to what extent..."

Chilling proof of my you should NEVER call Scott Juniper a fatty.

Both of the racers only recieved minor injuries explained Scotty: "I was fine, but when we got out of the car, Danny started slapping me with an open hand, whilst hissing furiously. It was then that I was deeply hurt."

Scotty re-enacting his position after Danny and him stopped fighting and made up.

And for the car? "Well the panel shop has looked at it and decided with a bit of bog and a chisel, she will be looking fine soon. On about the 19th roll, I decided magenta with white side stripes would just look simply super!"

The above recorded events may or may not be true.

Australian Muscle Car Magazine

presents the inaugural

Start frothing now, because come October the 30th, There is going to be a full-on race day dedicated purely to

Beautiful Aussie Muscle Cars.

It will consist of;

• The obligatory show and shine
• Muscle Car Club displays
• Group Na, Nb and the mighty 500hp+ Nc
• PLUS, our favourite, Group - FREAKING  - C!!!!!!!
• Group A cars
• Heaps of the legends
• Heaps of the legendary cars
• Heaps of people like me, trying not to instantaneously combust looking at what is happening all around them.

Come along and check out our:

Mighty "Moffstang"

Very Horn Photo courtesy of Autopics.com.au

• The Kevin Bartlett Channel 9 Camaro

Photo courtesy of Autopics.com.au

• 1978 ATCC & Bathurst winning Brock "05" A9X Torana

Moffat F350 "Coca Cola" Transporter.

This one's going to be REAL BIG!

Australian Muscle Car Masters,

30th of October 2005.

Eastern Creek Raceway, just a little bit west of Parramatta.

Check out

www.chevron.com.au

For more details on what you can expect

What a great day! It was consistently the wettest motorsport event I have ever been involved with. Yet thousands of people showed up. Everyone, from the organisers & drivers, down to the officials was wrapped with the event.

The question that will now remain unanswered is how big would it have been if Nature had played ball? We'll never know. But you can be assured next year will be MASSIVE.

I was very impressed with the amount of people from interstate and overseas that showed up. Their dedication is very heartwarming: It's always nice to know there are more loonies like yourself out there.

I must send out a VERY BIG thank-you to all the people who came and took the time to say nice things about my families car care products and how we present the cars. Very good stuff and keeps us aiming high!!

Another nice endnote is that with the pouring rain, we let everyone into our marquee area, the cars were not roped off and were surrounded all day by thousands of wet, wide eyed people. Usually in those circumstances, we have to get a bit concerned. That was not the case at all; of the thousands of people who crammed in, I only had one person decide the Camaro looked like a nice place to sit. That is pretty bloody impressive & something we are thankful for!

Good on you Chevron and the ARDC

for putting an a corker event!

Bathurst 1000 Schedule

Unfortunately we aren't attending this years GREAT RACE, but if your like us and joined by the hip to a TV for the duration of the event, get your recording stuff ready, as Channel 10 were recently in the sheds and paid some attention to some of our more famous touring cars.

Armed with some rare archive footage of the cars racing, and footage of how they are today, the breakouts will be a huge bonus for muscle car fans.

"...If I hear one more ginger joke out of you buddy..."

The one and only Mark Oastler on his favourite topic: Muscle Cars.

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"Front engined hey...who would have thought"

Middle man Steve Wood, producer of channel 10 Motorsport, getting a guided tour from another self confessed "Moffstang" fan, MO.

PLUS...

Channel 10 were also on hand to capture the debut of the KB "Channel 9" Camaro at Willowbank Raceway recently.

I can't say too much, but expect on track and in car footage of the car, with the inimitable KB at the wheel. There will also be rare period footage and what will have to be another classic KB interview (Is there any other?).

Grrrrrrr...

MO: "Geez, that Bowden's Own wax looks good, but does she GO KB?"

KB: "Yes."

Noosa Beach Classic Car Show 2005

The Noosa Beach Classic Car Show, is a what you would call a "pleasant" event. It is very well run and always has a wide selection of interesting cars and people.

Combine this with shady trees and the close proximity of the cafe mecca that is Hastings St, and you get an event that is very....well, pleasant!

This year Lamborghini is the Marque of the show. Expect a large number of great looking cars from all over Queensland and NSW, conking out, overheating and blowing up enroute to Noosa.

Keep an eye out for the odd AC Cobra getting around Noosa on that day!!

October the 2nd, at that nice little park on the left, as you head into Noosa Heads.

www.noosacarclub.com

Picture a beautiful warm day, in one of the nicest parks on the Sunshine Coast, surrounded by some of Australia's finest cars. Then combine it with an infectious happy mood and you have the 2005 N.B.C.C.S.

A BIG congratulations must go to Noosa Beach Classic Car Club on a very successful day. Best of show was a "Bowden's Own" car and so was the all important People's Choice. So we are more than happy with the results!!

The highlighht of the day has supplied by the chap who bought along his 1950's Chris Craft runabout (Of course the park is waterfront, this IS Noosa!!).

BEAUTIFUL boat! Got my choice as the most gorgeous thing there and the chap won a bottle of Bowden's Own metal polish...

"Just because"!

WE LUUUURRRVVVE S.O.T !!!!!

Terrible shame about that Roger chap. ( Just ignore him.)

Speed on Tweed is the benchmark for historic sprints in Australia, with great emphasis placed on quality of cars running and the brilliant atmosphere.

A constant stream of classy entertainment is organised by the tireless volunteers, that seem to come out of everywhere in droves to make the weekend a success.

This is one event that's really worth marking in your diary and making the short trek to Murwillumbah for.

We will be running our:

• 1964 Mk 2 AC Cobra (Ex Ron Thorpe)
• 1965 Mk 1 GT40
• 1963 Falcon Sprint
• 1973 Porsche 911RS

Frank Gardner giving our "Gully" a good seeing to, at SOT.

www.speedontweed.com

17-18th of September.

Murwillumbah, just 20 minutes south of the QLD border.

What a fantastic weekend!! I caught a mild flu, biffed my beloved car and came last in my class, yet I'm still smiling about what a great weekend SOT 2005 was.