Xavier Martin

While Nigel Warr never completed restoring his 1974 Holden Monaro himself, it didn't stop his family from picking things up where he left them after he died last year.

Residents of a tiny community about 80 kilometres from Alice Springs are blending their Catholic heritage with Indigenous traditions.

The burning rubber proved unmissable for thousands of motoring enthusiasts as Red CentreNATS roared back into Alice Springs for burnouts and drag racing.

Metal heads from around the country are travelling to one of the most unique locations for a metal concert around the world this weekend for the Blacken Open Air festival.

For four decades Peter Hondow searched for his 1967 Holden HR Premier sedan in scrub land outside Alice Springs. Then late one night he saw it while scrolling through a Facebook site.