Marv’s Garage: BMW stuff a Le Mans V12 in an SUV
It doesn’t get much crazier for car company shenanigans than stuffing a Le Mans-winning V12 into a large SUV, just ‘cause.
Marv’s Garage: When the supercars got RUF’ed up.
When a noted tuner brought a Howitzer to a fight with Europe’s hottest supercars… and blew them all into the weeds.
Marv’s Garage: Busted at 197mph on a public motorway
One of Japan’s top tuners went rogue on a quick trip to the UK, and it built his legend.
Marv’s Garage: Salt horses
If Ferraris don’t belong salt racing, then why are they so good at it?
Marv’s Garage: The Veskanda was too fast for Australia
This ground-effects V8 monster from the ‘80s proved it was capable of running with the top dogs in WEC.
Marv’s Garage: Australia’s forgotten speed hero
Did you know Australia had land speed legend?
Marv’s Garage: The Bapmobile
Bap Romano ushered in a new era of sports car performance with his brutal Kaditcha.
Marv’s Garage: La Pantera Bianca; the white panther.
La Pantera Bianca, the white panther, rewrote how intense Aussie race car builds would be.
Marv’s Garage: Briggs Cunningham was an American badass.
Everyone knows Carroll Shelby, but years before the Cobra King battled Ferrari at Le Mans another American came close to conquering La Sarthe.
Marv’s Garage: Gatebil is car enthusiast for “party”
If you like off-tap Euro cars being beaten on like they owe the drivers money, then Gatebil is your kinda party.
Marv’s Garage: Giocattolo, wombats can fly.
When is an Alfa not an Alfa? When it’s a mid-engined V8 calleda Giocattolo.
Marv’s Garage: Group 5 was a party
Big wings, big turbos, big wheels and big balls. Group 5 was for racers who liked to PARTY.
Marv’s Garage: wing cars didn’t just rule NASCAR
We typically think of Chrysler’s infamous wing cars (the Charger Daytona and Roadrunner Superbird) as purely NASCAR fodder but did you know they had a salt career too?
Marv’s Garage: Of course Australia had a 3000hp burnout truck
When you’ve got poisonous snakes through your major cities, sharks and crocs in your waterways, you probably need a burnout truck to keep them all in line… or something.
Marv’s Garage: NASA's hot-rod helped build the space shuttle.
When NASA needed a heavy duty high-speed vehicle to assist with space vehicles, it got a brand new Pontiac and souped it right up.
Marv’s Garage: Making a monkey of NASCAR
Back in the 50s Tim Flock had a co-driver, who was a monkey.
Marv’s Garage: Bob Jane had TWO ‘69 ZL-1 Camaros
The Aussie tyre tycoon had two of Chevy’s baddest muscle cars; one for touring car racing and one he sent drag racing
Marv’s Garage: A Corvette that’s actually a one tonne ute.
Yeah, we’ll need more spew bags for this one as well. Sorry.
Marv’s Garage: Aussie truck racing is the right kinda madness
Big rigs powersliding in clouds of soot: Aussie Super Trucks are comedic motorsport, and they’re awesome.