01 Sep Power to the People
While celebrating the early years of Mercedes-Benz, for a bit of fun here is a model far removed from Gottlieb Daimler’s motorised carriage and illustrates what five decades of development can produce...
01 Sep Ponton: Mercedes’ Smooth – and Safe – Operator
There have been a number of landmark models in Mercedes-Benz’s production history, one of which was the Ponton...
04 Aug Colourful Auburn
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The Great Depression following the Wall Street crash in 1929 left America in a sorry state and the country’s motor industry was badly affected as a result. The triumvirate of Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg was amongst the casualties and the surviving models make one wonder...
04 Aug A Brute Beaut
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Mike Monk gives the background to a unique GMSA pick-up...
30 Jun An International Saviour
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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...
30 Jun The start of a big Three Player
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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...
02 Jun Championing The Cause
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Mike Monk relates the story about the rise and fall of an innovative American motor manufacturer...
07 May FMM takes the Mostert Gordini to Simola
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...
08 Apr Austin-Healey 100-6
Mike Monk recalls a childhood memory behind the wheel of one of Britain’s iconic sports cars of the Fifties...
27 Feb A FOR AWAY
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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...