Every one of us harbours a secret.
Behind the sophisticated veneer of café latte sipping, Ralph Lauren-wearing, Peugeot-driving and Game of Thrones-watching, lies a love that cannot often express its name.
But today I reveal it! Australians love muscle cars. And they love Australian muscle cars even more. Tomorrow I’m spending my birthday and $500 driving a V8 Supercar around Sandown. And I’m not alone. There’s a whole muscle car industry out there. Last week record crowds hot footed it out to Sydney’s Eastern Creek for the 2013 Australian Muscle Car Masters to see the universe’s biggest collection of Bathurst 1000 cars including Mark Skaife’s and Jim Richards’ Godzilla (Nissan GTR), the 1986 and 1997 winning Commodores and the 1967 Needham Motors Studebaker Lark.
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