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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE PEOPLE’S CAR Adolf Hitler made very few intelligent decisions that benefited the German People and the world at Large. Thank goodness he did make one good decision and that was the order to his lieutenants to “build a peoples car”. The order to build a “people’s car” was given in 1938 and of course […]