Aussie Ghosts

Want to get out on the track but can’t find the historic racing car you really want? This month our man in Australia, Patrick Quinn, reports on a growing number of Aussie enthusiasts who are building historic racing cars that never were. Cars that typify those care-free amateur days of pre–World War–Two motor racing and designs restricted only by the ingenuity of their owners. Perhaps such a trend might be just the thing for historic racing in the U.S. too?

Historic motorsport usually means vehicles built after World War Two. To have a little fun on the circuits in Australia we have to find a car with a genuine racing history or a classic production car that could have been raced. The numbers of genuine post–WW2 historic racing cars are, of course, finite although it is possible to reconstruct a car providing the original has been destroyed. However, such a vehicle is suitably and correctly tagged a reconstruction.