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Edwin Brown’s ‘plagiarised’ hybrid Ford/Holden
Written By Matthew Lombard | 10 March 2017 Plagiarism is most commonly associated with written work, but even motor vehicles can be ripped off. The 1920 Palm Tourer is an excellent home-grown example of this. It is the best known work of Melbourne car salesman and budding auto magnate, Edwin Brown. ...
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Bigfoot, aka the Andamooka Buggy
Written By Paul Rees | 10 February 2017 This monster vehicle is the most recent acquisition at the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. It was driven in the 1985 film, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, by the character known as Ironbar Bassey, played by lead singer with popular 80s band Rose Tattoo, Angry...
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The cars of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’
Written by Mick Bolognese | March 31st, 2016 Warning: if names like ‘the War Boys’ and ‘Imperator Furiosa’ mean nothing to you, you’ve obviously not seen ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. Get a copy and watch it (make sure the sound’s up) before you read ahead. ...
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Selling a tiger: advertising the 1966 GTO Pontiac
Written by Michelle Toft| February 5th, 2016 Don’t let the stylish exterior fool you, the 1966 GTO Pontiac is a 389 cubic inch four barrel V8 with dual exhaust producing 335 horsepower. This car would have certainly turned heads. Pontiac’s advertising team dubbed the GTO the ‘tiger’, encoura...
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In a puff of… steam
Written by Mick Bolognese | November 24th, 2015 The mysterious disappearance of Birdwood’s Watt steam engine James Watt isn’t necessarily a household name. Watt was the Scottish inventor who, among other things, came up with a way to measure a machine’s power (by comparing it to the power of...
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