When I first moved into Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs many, many years ago (some years before the establishment of the Melbourne Bloke Centre) I spotted this car in traffic.
Even back in the 1990s,
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Reader’s Rides sponsored by Shannons: Bali – Old-Car Tour
I recently returned from a two-week Bali vacation with my brother and our partners, and before my departure I did some research on Holdens in Indonesia.
Apparently several thousand Holdens were exported
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Finding out more about Honda’s little hot rod
It’s easy to stroll past the limited edition silver 1971 Honda Coupe 9 without recognising its significance.
Apart from the distinctive Pontiac-like, twin-headlight grille, it looks a lot like any other
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When it comes to tiny cars, the immortal Mini is up there
When British Motor Company (BMC) launched its compact front-wheel-drive Mini in 1959, it had no idea that it was also launching a cultural icon that would appear in movies, TV series and advertisements,
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Gold Coast Motor Museum: One in a Million (or more)
When the first Morris Minor debuted at the Earls Court Motor Show in London in 1948, no one could have predicted that the company would go on to build 1.6 million of the diminutive cars by the time production
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Gold Coast Motor Museum: Claustrophobic Casket
If you’re old enough to remember The Munsters TV series and two spin-off movies, and your pacemaker is fully charged, you might want to take a blast in this particularly claustrophobia-inducing creation.
The
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No No – Not a Goggo! Have you heard of the Lloyd?
In the same part of the Gold Coast Motor Museum is an Australian version of the ‘mini car’ concept, this one with a particularly interesting history.
(I will surrender here to the urge to quote the
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Dainty or Deadly? That’s the question about this micro beauty
Isetta is Italian for claustrophobia – or at least it should be.
As I stood looking at the perfectly restored example of the Italian-German microcar, I imagined being imprisoned in a canyon of fast-moving
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Check out these three kings of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo stable
Gathering a trio of JDM legends in the city, before sunrise, has a frisson of naughtiness to it. These are ’90s cult cars. Not just from the World Rally scene, but the after-dark performance street-car
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Reader Resto: 1973 Jensen-Healey MK 1 – Labour of Love
Though less well-known than the likes of E-Types and Austin-Healeys, a properly sorted Jensen-Healey can be a very competitive sports car. Under the bonnet you’ll find a 2.0lt twin-cam 16-valve Lotus inline-four, otherwise known as the Lotus 907.
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