One of the more attractive post-vintage pick-ups in the FMM collection in the 1936 International C1 Flatbed. Mike Monk describes the background to a vehicle that helped save International’s existence...
There was a period when America boasted a ‘Big Three’ of motor manufacturers – Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. That’s not the case today, but just over a century ago one of those early giants – Chrysler – came into being. Mike Monk describes a...
Mike Monk relates the story about the rise and fall of an innovative American motor manufacturer...
For the third year in a row, FMM participated in Knysna’s Simola Hillclimb but rather than doing demonstration runs with one of the museum’s classics, this year we actually took part in the Classic Car Friday event in the weekend’s proceedings. And appropriately, the competing...
Mike Monk recalls a childhood memory behind the wheel of one of Britain’s iconic sports cars of the Fifties...
In the midst of a local revival of the MG brand in SA, Mike Monk describes and drives one of the models that established the company’s sporty reputation 70 years ago...
Two inventors, one goal – the automobile: on 29 January 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for his three-wheeled ‘vehicle with gas-engine drive’ – effectively the birth of the automobile. Shortly afterwards, Gottlieb Daimler built his motor carriage. Together, the two vehicles formed the...
Mike Monk drives an iconic sports car built just up the road from where he was born that set a global standard for sports cars...
Mike Monk gets to grips with a rare animal. Almost...
Mike Monk revives fond memories of a classic Alfa...
