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1 week ago | 
carsales.com.au | Cliff Chambers
Being a benchmark is tough work, but since its arrival in 2012 the Mazda CX-5 has set an ultra-high standard in the competitive medium SUV marketMazda’s history as a supplier of roomy and practical family all-wheel drives dates back to the 1990s and its cooperative effort with Ford that brought us the shared-design Ford Escape and Mazda Tribute.
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2 weeks ago | 
nationalcollisionrepairer.com.au | Cliff Chambers
NEXT TIME you trawl the Internet for nothing in particular, find a photo of 1950s Sydney or Melbourne traffic. Motoring expert Cliff Chambers shares his insight into some fifties classics, at a time when many Australians were contemplating their first car for the family.
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2 months ago | 
tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
If Australians would broaden their view of automotive desirability and start buying iconic cars again, our display days and club runs would again be populated by some truly fabulous motor vehicles. Look back 60 to 70 years to a time when D-Type Jaguars, Maseratis and Ferraris raced competitively and Ron Thorp’s fearsome Cobra was setting hill climb records instead of sitting in a shed surrounded by other rarely seen gems.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
Carroll Shelby created the business model, followed in the early 1980s by Peter Brock, for selling modified versions of popular road cars with the blessing of, but no direct involvement from the manufacturer. Shelby set up his Mustang modification line at an airfield in California and received 2+2 Mustangs directly from Ford. Under the bonnets went more powerful versions of Ford’s V8s and the bonnets themselves were replaced by lighter, fibreglass panels.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
The USA Muscle Car market was well established when, in 1965, the Chrysler Corporation decided to produce a mid-sized performance model to directly challenge Pontiac’s immensely successful GTO. Without the time or money to develop a completely separate model, the Dodge division cleverly modified a Coronet Hardtop, adding hidden headlights and a fastback roofline for enhanced individuality.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
The closure of the National Holden Museum saw many lots go under the hammer achieving some astonishing prices.
They said it would be memorable and it was. They said records would be set and they were. But alongside the celebration was a sense of sadness that something so intrinsic to the nation’s motoring heritage could not have been kept intact.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
When is an ex-taxi not an ex-taxi? When it's a former wedding-car. This rare ebony black VG Valiant was found by sheer luck.
At first-glance the VG’s arrival was an anticlimax judging by the very similar overall appearance to its VF predecessor. However, once you popped the bonnet it was obvious that there was way more to the VG than just new rectangular headlights. Gone was the venerable ‘Slant-6’ engine – in its place, the new highly efficient ‘Hemi-6’.
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tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
The cars we should have bought or are delighted we didn’t ...
August 2000Rare cars are commonplace around these parts, but when was the last time you saw an HK Kingswood wagon with its original 307 V8 and Monaro wheel trims? HKs were the first Holden to really let buyers go berserk with the options chart, and there must have often been cars specified with unusual combinations of extras like the V8, power steering and air-conditioning.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
Maintaining old classics is both painstaking and rewarding. Will anyone bother with more modern machinery?
Chatting with Graham Jordan, the owner of our featured Jaguar XK120 Coupe, reinforced my admiration for the people who devote their time and fortunes to astounding restorations and are then able to maintain those cars, in far better than showroom condition.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers
The XK 120 was created to showcase its DOHC inline six-cylinder engine that remained in service over four decades.
The Most Beautiful Car In The World, Jaguar’s E-Type, has an older cousin which didn’t come with a Le Mans heritage or frantic drive through the darkness, to make its media launch on time. Jaguar’s XK120 arrived almost as an afterthought; a car to showcase the parent company’s marvellous new double overhead camshaft engine but not intended for volume production.
