Motorclassica was held in late October in Melbourne’s beautiful Royal Exhibition Building. This year’s event featured one of the best displays of rare, beautiful and desirable, vintage, veteran and classic cars. With over 180 vehicles on display, Motorclassica is easily Australia’s largest Concours.

The Porsche club of Australia were on hand to help celebrate 60 years of Porsche in Australia. The large display featured a board range on vehicles from Porsche’s 60 years. Highlights include a Kombi fitted with a Porsche motor, 911 Carrera CS and a 550 Spyder Replica.

Not to be out done by the club, the Porsche museum brought out a 956. This is the classic Group C Le Mans racer, Porsche used to dominate sports car racing in the mid 80s. This car was unstoppable in it’s day, with it’s 2.65ltr turbocharged Flat-6, producing approximately 635 hp (474 kW), mated to a traditional 5-speed manual.

A great video on the history of the 956/962 can be found here.
Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WveoD2jovNs
Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP5g0G5FV94

Australian classics also featured quite prominently. With cult cars like the Ford Falcon XY GT, GT-HO Phase III and Falcon XB Coupe. Bathurst made them legends and now GT-HOs are a well sort after collectors item. Some of which have sold for over $500,000 at auction.

Ford’s XY GT-HO Phase 3 was the last of the companies Falcon based GT-HO muscle cars. The Super car Scare in 1972 combined with changes to the Group C production car racing regulations put an end to Australian muscle car era. It was at the 11 hour Ford pulled the XA Falcon based GT-HO Phase 4. Al thought it was never officially released, Ford did end up using all the GT-HO Phase 4 parts that were stockpiled in XA GT Falcons.

Holden showed of it’s fully restored 1969 Holden Hurricane Concept Car. Originally built as a design study into the future of motoring, this car was well ahead of it’s time. Power for the two seater sports car came from an experimental 4.2-litre mid-mounted V8 engine behind the driver. The vehicle featured many futuristic ideas, included an electronic instrument display, climate controlled air conditioning, automatic route indicator and CCTV rear vision camera. Holden captured the public’s attention with this car, then gave us the Kingswood.

The still futuristic and space age looking Citroën DS.

Motorclassica keeps getting better. We had a great time at this years event and we are looking forward to the next Motorclassica in 2012.

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