Motorsport legend Peter Brock will be honoured at this year’s 12th annual Australian Muscle Car Masters at Sydney Motorsport Park on October 29-30.

The nine-time Bathurst winner and icon of the sport will be remembered at the event that celebrates a golden era of Australian motorsport covering the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

Brock attended the inaugural event in 2005 though was killed in a tarmac rally accident in September 2006 before he was able to witness the growth of Muscle Car Masters first-hand.

Ex-Brock racecars will be on hand at this year’s event, including his 1993 Mobil 1 Racing Commodore VP Bathurst car as part of the Australian 5-Litre Touring Car Association demo sessions.

Also heading to the event will be Brock’s recently located Bathurst 12 Hour Commodore VP SS V8 that he and Tony Scott drove to class victory and eighth overall in 1993.

Displays and parades of special Brock road cars from the era where his HDT Special Vehicles operation really boomed will also add plenty of ‘Brock flavour’ to the 2016 Muscle Car Masters.

This year is the 30th anniversary of the VL Commodore Group A’s launch in 1986 and a whole host of Brock Commodore owners are bringing their cars to Sydney Motorsport Park to take part in the Feature Muscle Marque display and parade.

Also part of the 2016 Muscle Car Masters is the A9X Torana Club Nationals’ show and shine, the first time since 2005 that Sydney has hosted the A9X Nationals.

Brock’s name remains strongly linked with the racing history of the A9X having won two Bathurst 1000s, a trio of Sandown enduros and the 1978 Australian Touring Car Championship aboard the mighty Holden muscle cars.

Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore V8s from the early era of 1990s five-litre touring car and V8 Supercar competition will make their debut at the 2016 Muscle Car Masters.

The Australian 5-Litre Touring Car Association, catering for owner/drivers of cars from the 1993-2002 period of V8 Supercar/five-litre touring car racing, will bring a wide range of former Bathurst cars to this year’s event on October 29-30.

A range of important and interesting cars from the era will take to the circuit in a range of spirited demonstrations including the 1993 Mobil 1 Racing Commodore VP formerly driven by Peter Brock.

A range of cars built and raced by teams including Perkins Engineering, Glenn Seton Racing, Tony Longhurst Racing and John Faulkner Racing will wind the clock back with around 20 cars expected to join in the action.

Former ‘Castrol Cougar’ Melinda Price is due to drive an ex-John Briggs Supercheap Auto Falcon while Glenn Seton’s 1997 Australian Touring Car Championship-winning Ford Credit Falcon EL is also due on-track in the hands of owner Noel Willoughby.

“We started the Association a few years ago and heading to Muscle Car Masters has been on our radar for a while now,” says Australian 5-Litre Touring Car Association president Troy Kelly.

“The following we’ve attracted via social media and online in the last few years has been great; there’s plenty of interest in these cars and the era in which they raced.

“Sometimes you forget that it’s over 20 years since some of these cars competed at the top level of touring car racing – we have a range of cars in correct liveries that will take people down memory lane in Sydney at the end of October.”

Four-time Bathurst winner Allan Moffat heads an ever-growing list of legends of Australian motorsport who have confirmed their attendance at the 2016 Muscle Car Masters at Sydney Motorsport Park on October 29-30. The Ford icon will make a return to the 12th annual event among a list of at least 10 Bathurst-winning legends.

Joining Moffat at the ever-popular event will be 1974 race winners John Goss and Kevin Bartlett, 1969 winner Colin Bond and 1967 winner Fred Gibson.

Seven-time Bathurst winner Jim Richards will also be on-hand racing one of his former JPS 635 Group C cars in the Heritage Touring Cars category, while two-time winner John Bowe will also be competing at the event.

50 years on from their victory in the 1966 Gallaher 500, Bob Holden and Finn Rauno Aaltonen will celebrate the half-century anniversary. Holden, 83, will also be in competition at the Masters behind the wheel of one of his original Group A Toyota Corollas in the HTC category.

1965 Bathurst winner Bo Seton, his son Glenn and grandson Aaron will be in attendance for the event held on the last weekend of October.

The full list of confirmed greats for Sunday October 30 is long and distinguished: Rauno Altonen, Trevor Ashby, Kevin Bartlett, Colin Bond, John Bowe, Gary Cooke, Murray Carter, John French, Fred Gibson, John Goss, Allan Grice, Bob Holden, John Leffler, Spencer Martin, Allan Moffat, James Moffat, John McCormack, Scott McLaughlin, Charlie O’Brien, Steve Reed, Jim Richards, Garry Rogers, Barry Seton, Glenn Seton, John Smith, Bob Watson. More greats to be confirmed.

The field for the inaugural Sports Racing Car Invitational is coming together nicely and the latest stunner confirmed for these high-speed demonstration sessions is Bruce Gowan’s newly restored Repco V8-powered Toyota Celica Sports Sedan. The car’s creator, John McCormack, will be on hand at Sydney Motorsport Park to chat about the unique beast; and the Jaguar XJS Sports Sedan of Mark Trenoweth, which will also hit the track.

The Sports Racing Car Invitational is a new on-track activity for 2016. It consists of a trio of 15-minute sessions – one Saturday and two Sunday – for glamour racing sportscars and historically significant Sports Sedans. The field will comprise muscular GT, Can-Am, Le Mans-style and Big Banger ‘sporties’.

We are hopeful frontrunners from the Kerrick Sports Sedan Series will also take part.

Heritage Hots Laps is being rested for 2016.

Here’s the SRCA line-up confirmed so far:

• Wall Racing’s HDT-built F5000-powered Torana Sports Sedan
• Wall Racing’s Supra Sports Sedan (formerly Bob Jane Monza)
• Bruce Gowan’s McCormack-built Toyota Celica Sports Sedan
• Mark Trenoweth’s ex-McCormack Jaguar XJS Sports Sedan
• Steve Webb’s Elfin 360 Repco V8-powered sportscar
• Andrew Kluver’s Budweiser Can-Am Lola (ex-Newman Racing)
• Andrew Kluver’s ex-Bruce Leer Milano GT2 sportscar
• Nigel Tait’s Matich SR4 Big Banger sportscar (1969 ASSC winner)

More sexy beasts (that’s cars, not drivers) to be confirmed. Organisers are still taking expressions of interest from owners of suitable vehicles with competition history – contact amceditorial@chevron.com.au

America’s Trans-Am TA2 formula is launching in Australia and the 2016 Muscle Car Masters will see the first TA2 cars hit the track. Three examples – a Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger and Chev Camaro – will turn demonstration laps at the Masters for the class’s Sydney debut. Meantime, we have all fingers crossed that the eagerly anticipated first public appearance of the prototype FT5000 will occur at SMP on October 30. As AMC closed for press the 560bhp V8 open-wheeler was due to be fired up for the first time, ahead of initial testing. All going well, the prototype will hit the track to wow punters at the Masters!