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Australian Historic Touring Cars have raced in Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix support events no fewer than seven times: four in the Adelaide parklands, and three at Albert Park in Melbourne – but the story goes back much further…

Before The Bend there was Mallala Motor Motorsport Park and the little circuit 60 clicks north of Adelaide is still going strong some 62 years after its birth. Devilishly hard on brakes, the former RAAF training base promotes close racing and seven JUST CARS Victorian Historic Tourers journeyed across the border.

There were tears shed when Phil Barrow’s Famous Family FJ seriously smacked the wall at Phillip Island in early March. Could it be fixed? In a year, six months? Try six weeks, at home after work. Just one man and a helluva wife… There was another race meeting to be contested! A breathless Phil Barrow recounts the story…

An entry nudging 80 JUST CARS Historic Touring Cars again showed the huge appeal of competing at the VHRR’s Phillip Island Classic. Two big fields of large and small classics saw the locals face Australia’s best – and interstate cars took home the major ti

Historic Touring Cars have always been a replica category, allowing ‘new old cars’ to be prepared for Motorsports Australia’s Historic 5th Category. Fifteen years after pre-65 Group Nb appeared in 1980 the pre-72 Group Nc category hit the tracks. New builds now appear regularly but some very special ‘originals’ have been around for almost 30 years. This is one of them.

The JUST CARS Historic Touring Cars opened their 2023 account  at Sandown on 18-19 February. After a heatwave Friday practice session, great weather favoured a weekend of excellent Historic Touring Car action. The famed power circuit was in its element with an entry dominated by V8s.

The JUST CARS Historic Touring Cars 2022 HTCAV Club Championships have been run and done, with some surprise results in the Top 10. Just like a modern race enduro, the Championships are notoriously difficult to win and often come down to the wire. But before we unpack the year’s topline results, what’s HTCAV Club Championship all about?