CLASSIC WHEELS
Classic Wheels: Albury-Melbourne in two hours in a Ford Falcon GT-HO
Covering 200 miles in two hours in a Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase III was always going to generate a compelling yarn. But even in 1971, on the no-limit Hume Highway, a photo of the speedo showing 145mph raised eyebrows
HO down the Hume
Wheels’ 1971 review of the Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase III was written straight, withholding details of the author’s high-speed research. Here is the story of the Hume Highway drive behind it, originally published in sister magazine Sports Car World four years later.
Classic Wheels: Car Design for the Next 25 Years
In 1978, for the 25th anniversary issue of Wheels, we asked the leading engineers and designers from Ford and Holden to contribute their thoughts to the future of the car
From the Wheels archive: Wings across Australia – driving a Datsun Bluebird from Adelaide to Darwin
From the the July 1981 edition of Wheels, when we piloted Datsun’s then new Bluebird from Adelaide to Darwin in 30 hours to discover if the most Japanese Australian car yet was up to the challenge.
Classic Wheels: A Dilambda in a Cave!
It reads like a film script … this, I SWEAR, is exactly the way it happened
Classic Wheels: Donald Campbell and his Bluebird car world speed record
How Donald Campbell broke the world land speed record on Lake Eyre
