Ep 121 is ready to listen to either via the Motoring Weekly site or through your favourite podcast app, Spotify etc. I have a chat with Colin Loudon from the Jervis Bay Moke Club who was with a group heading to the Mini Moke Roundup in Tamworth. Listen here. … [Read more...]
Motoring Weekly Recap
With Motoring Weekly now available in many different podcast players, it's time to do a small recap. Here are the most recent podcasts - subscribe to get them as they are published! EpisodeContent116We're Back!117The Porsche Six-Stroke Engine118Club Maserati Australia Concours119McCarrolls Classic Restoration120James Nicholls - Sydney Harbour Concours & Halcyon … [Read more...]
The Motoring Weekly Podcast is back!
After 14 years, we have brought back the podcast - in 2008 when Motoring Weekly started, it was a podcast - when podcasts weren't that popular! After two years - and 115 episodes - a change of tack lead us to write long-form articles that can still be found on this site. Over 600 were written along with Instagram videos and other content whilst our editor worked full-time on … [Read more...]
De Soto
Back in the 1920s and 30s the major American brands all looked to soak up the differing and growing market segments. Chrysler bought the Dodge Brothers company and also created a second brand to target the mid range price point. This article is about this creation, named after Hernandez De Soto, a Spanish explorer of the 16th Century. The original De Soto was the first … [Read more...]
Tom Tjaarda
Last year the world lost one of the most prolific car designers, Tom Tjaarda. Tjaarda was born in Detroit in 1934 - his father worked in the Lincoln division of Ford and his claim to fame was that he worked on the Lincoln-Zephyr cars from the late 1930s. He had designed a vehicle that Ford used as a basis for their Zephyr. The Tjaarda surname came from a Dutch background with … [Read more...]
