Trade Unique Cars

Trade Unique Cars

Australia's leading hub for muscle cars, classic vehicles, collectibles, and high-performance automobiles.

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  • 2 days ago | tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers

    It is hard to know what inspired Jaguar engineering chief Claude Baily to start work on a 12-cylinder engine, but the sound of Ferraris howling through the darkness at Le Mans maybe played a role. Development of a V12-powered Jaguar reportedly began shortly after the C-Type’s 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour victory and with the brand’s greatest achievements still to be recorded by D-Types with straight-six power units.

  • 2 days ago | tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers

    Reaching the heights of social status during the 1960s meant living in an exclusive suburb, joining the right clubs, owning a boat with permanent mooring and driving a car that instantly defined your success. Cars that made a statement were rarely cheap and never nondescript. British celebrities might have got away with customised Minis, but that would never work here.

  • 4 days ago | tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers

    More than 15 million ‘Beetles’ were built during a life-span of 60 years. Nearly half of those arrived before 1967 when the car’s only significant restyle occurred. With the notable exception of early Minis, cars that challenged the Beetle during the 1960s have failed to survive it. Even once prolific Japanese models like the early Corolla, Mazda 800 and Datsun 1000 that cut deeply into Australian VW sales are effectively extinct, yet early Volkswagens remain easy to find.

  • 1 week ago | tradeuniquecars.com.au | Alex Catalano

    Pontiac’s Tempest was launched in 1961 as affordable transport for Middle America. Few were sold and those that did were ignored by the market’s surging numbers of younger buyers. Then, along came GM executive John De Lorean who, in conjunction with ad-man Jim Wangers, concocted a performance package that would reposition the Tempest in a way that captured those younger guns, their parents and uncles as well. First on the Must Have list was a name.

  • 1 week ago | tradeuniquecars.com.au | Cliff Chambers

    First up (or under) was North Queensland, then a fortnight later the destruction moved to the South Eastern corner and parts of Northern NSW. Again. People with cars needing protection from cyclonic winds were given plenty of notice, but moving something that is in bits or under restoration isn’t always possible. And where would it be truly safe anyway?