Ride that pony! Mike Monk gets nostalgic about one the world’s most iconic sports cars...
Hupmobile is an automotive brand that is not familiar to most people. The company lasted less than four decades, but the cars were a bit special. Mike Monk describes a Roadster that has recently been put back on the road...
In their heyday, Beetles never really appealed to me but nowadays I can better appreciate their contribution to motoring life. Mike Monk takes a light-hearted look back at Beetle mania, and in the wake of the passing of SA motor sport legend Basil van Rooyen,...
Today’s cars are full of technology, and the more upspec the model the more it contains. Back in the ’60s and ’70s automobiles were far less sophisticated but nonetheless offered plenty of driving pleasure, especially for old-stagers like me. Mike Monk enjoys a Ford that rekindles...
From naval officer to wasp...
Mike Monk tells the story a car whose dynamic Art Deco design approach was considered too advanced for its time...
Mike Monk tells the story of an unsung hero, a little-known car that broke new ground in the German auto industry...
Today, quattro is a mainstay of Audi’s vorsprung durch technik product line-up, but 60 years ago Ingolstadt produced a four-wheel drive vehicle with more utilitarian use in mind. Mike Monk goes off the beaten track...
Close friend of the Mostert family and an associate of Hennie when he was competing, Patrick Vermaak provides the background to Hennie’s career and the success of one car. And Mike Monk drives the mountain machine...
Mike Monk has a sense of déjà vu behind the wheel of a rare-in-SA Mini Cooper...
