The Fiat 126 was a small rear-engined Italian car which replaced the famous Fiat 500. It was first built in 1972. Production ceased in Italy in 1993 and in 2000 in Poland, where most of the Fiat 126 were built. A total of 4,673,655 units were built. Apart from Poland and Italy, the car was […]
The Ford Eifel was manufactured in Germany between 1935 and 1940. The Eifel replaced the Ford Koln and was itself later replaced by the Ford Taunus. One can see the similarity to the Ford Prefect and the Ford Anglia manufactured at Dagenham in the UK. The model was named after the Eifel mountain range in […]
In 1955 Fiat replaced the Fiat Topolino with it’s first rear engined car – The Fiat 600. Two years later Fiat launched the Fiat 500 which was a little smaller than the 600 and looked more like a worthy replacement of the Topolino. This Fiat 500 was known as the Nuova 500 and was in […]
Al wat ons weet van hierdie karretjie is dat sy nie meer ‘n gewone ou kewer nie. Kyk mooi, haar stert hang op die pad, die bande is vet, die vensters is donker en daar is nie “bumpers” nie. Dit beteken daar’s min wat by haar kan bly en niks voor haar, so sy het […]
The first Audi 100, developed by Volkswagen’s subsidiary Auto Union at Ingolstadt, was shown to the press as a four-door sedan on 26 November 1968. The Audi 100 was the company’s largest car since the revival of the Audi brand by Volkswagen in 1965. Audi followed up the introduction of the four-door saloon in November […]
The SEAT 600 is a city car made in Spain by SEAT from May 1957 to August 1973 under licence from Fiat. It was a relatively inexpensive vehicle (then 60,000 Spanish pesetas) and was based on the 1955 version of the Fiat 600. Technically, the car was basic and not very modern with a rear-engined […]
Another entrant for the 2019 WestRand Car Show is Reyaaz Sallie’s restored Burgundy 1600. This car has an interesting history according to Reyaaz, so I will be updating this post after the show. Judging is going to be tough this year as entries start to come in. With over 21,000,000 cars built the Beetle is […]
OUR FIRST LADY ENTRANT FOR 2019 In celebration of South Africa’s Women’s Day we are pleased to announce our first woman entry of the 2019 WestRand Car Show. Claudia Lanzendorff will be showing her 1978 Volkswagen Golf Mk 1 for only the second time. Her 41-year-old car is almost perfect and she is busy working […]
LIEWE LULU WILL VISIT US AGAIN Following the story of Volkswagen demands huge amounts of concentration to understand their model numbering, style changes and multiple production plants. The original and most famous Volkswagen was the Type 1 or as we all knew it – The Beetle. The Volkswagen Type 2 we know as the Kombi […]
On 30 July 2003, 65 years after its original launch, the last Volkswagen Beetle, nicknamed “El Rey” which is Spanish for “The King” after a legendary Mexican song by José Alfredo Jiménez – rolled off the production line in Puebla, Mexico. It was the 21,529, 464th Beetle ever built and it is said that it […]