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 […]
PERSONALISED PLATES FOR A BEAUTIFUL MACHINE Coming to the WestRand Car Show on 31 Aug 2019 This beautifully turned out example of how an AC Cobra should look w8ill be on display at the 2019 WestRand Car Show on Saturday 31 August. Owned by Gordon Chapman the car is fiited with the small block Ford […]
The Datsun 280 ZX was the second of six generations of the Z Car. The Z Car was initially launched in Japan in 1969 as the Datsun Fairlady, with a 2.0 L engine. When launched in the US in 1970 the engine capacity was increased to 2.4 L and it was branded the 240 Z. […]
KNOWN IN AMERICA AS “THE SUCCESSFUL PLUMBERS CAR” The Chevrolet Corvette was launched in 1953, two years before the Ford Thunderbird. Since then the Corvette has been through 7 generations and in 65 years just over 1,700,000 units have been sold. The Thunderbird has sold over 4,400,000 units. The very first Corvettes were drop hood […]
Tatra Cars were built from 1897 until 1999. The original company was a carriage and wagon builder. The first car was built in 1897 but the Tatra name was first used in 1919. Car manufacture was suspended during the war years while the company continued building military vehicles. The first car was called a Prasident […]
The Mazda Motor Corporation produced over 1,200,000 cars in 2016 which was about 20% less than in 2015. Still, it’s am awful lot of new vehicles. When Mazda started in 1920 it was called the Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd. Mazda sounds a little easier don’t you think? Mazda started making a three-wheel truck that looked […]
The Original Holden Company started life as a saddlery making leather saddles used throughout Australia’s vast farming regions. They built their first car in 1908. In 1931 it became sa subsidiary of General motors and the company was renamed General Motors-Holdens Ltd. It was again renamed in 1998 and 2005. For many years Holden successfully […]
There is a chap in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the USA who specializes in selling rare and classic vehicles. Since a young student John Snell has been dealing in motorised art. If it’s beautiful, or ugly in a beautiful kind of a way and if it makes a noise, which indicates there’s life under the engine […]
MADE FAMOUS BY BOND, JAMES BOND Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. These two gentlemen had been selling Singer Motorcars before deciding to build their own car. Their first car was built from a four-cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 Isotta Fraschini. Over the years two […]
THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOTOR VEHICLE IN THE WORLD Bugatti – La Voiture Noire – “The Black Car”. The most expensive motor vehicle ever built, and sold. This one is, according to rumour in the motoring fraternity, is already sold to the ex boss of Volkswagen. That in itself is quite ironic. Here’s the catch though. […]