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...
Today, 12-cylinder cars are something of a technology and performance overload, but back in the 1930s such engines had more down-to-earth applications. Mike Monk drives an art deco example that ‘goes like the wind’...
‘The name’s Bond. James Bond.’ Well, not really. It’s Mike Monk, who adopts a double-oh persona agent and drives an Aston Martin that the world’s most famous secret service agent would surely have enjoyed...
Part 3, the final episode of the story behind a trio of Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk.IIs that were sent to Carrozzeria Touring of Milan in 1955 to be fitted with some distinctive and innovative Superleggera bodywork. This month’s featured car is the least well known...
Part 2 of a three part story behind a trio of Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk.IIs that were sent to Carrozzeria Touring of Milan in 1955 to be fitted with some distinctive and innovative Superleggera bodywork. This month’s featured car is the one that is now...
Part 1 of a three part story behind a trio of Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk.IIs that were sent to Carrozzeria Touring of Milan in 1955 to be fitted with some distinctive and innovative Superleggera bodywork. One of these rare cars is part of the FMM...
