13 Dec On Yer Bike: 1978 Yamaha AG175
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This month FMM Curator Wayne Harley describes a bike with a mission in life...
13 Dec Anniversary Celebration: 1932 MG Midget J2
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A regular feature covering vehicles in the FMM collection that are celebrating an anniversary during 2022. The last one for 2022 is a superb example of a classic British sports car. Mike Monk gives some barefoot impressions...
13 Dec Collection In Action: 1975 Citroën Méhari
If ever there was a vehicle that epitomised the adjective ‘utilitarian’, the Citroën Méhari is it. ‘Built for a purpose’ is perhaps too simplistic a phrase to describe what the Méhari represents but its bare-bones persona is, in reality, full of character. Mike Monk goes...
28 Nov Alvis Revival
FMM’s Mike Monk was born within a kilometre of the Alvis factory in Coventry, England, and still remembers as a child seeing the new cars and armoured vehicles running around the site. Now, the 103-year-old car company says it is making brand new vehicles using...
28 Nov Rear-view Mirror
A regular look back at old motoring and motor sport items...
28 Nov Stories From the Stacks – Picnic Chic
A regular series about the museum’s motoring memorabilia and behind-the-scenes activities, compiled and written by FMM’s Assistant Curator Sian Theron. This month, Sian goes picnic chic...
28 Nov Spanner Works: JP du Plessis
A regular feature by senior workshop technician JP du Plessis outlining the activities of FMM’s workshop personnel who are responsible for repairing, renovating, refurbishing and restoring the museum’s large and varied collection of vehicles. This month JP and Lorenzo Farella join forces to bring a...
28 Nov On Yer Bike: 1978 Suzuki
This month FMM Curator Wayne Harley describes another wonderful donation to the museum’s collection, a 1978 Suzuki...
28 Nov Anniversary Celebration: 1922 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8
A regular feature covering vehicles in the FMM collection that are celebrating an anniversary during 2022. November marks the 100th anniversary of FMM’s majestic Isotta Fraschini, and also the centenary of Tutankhamun’s tomb being discovered – and there is a link between the two along...
28 Nov Collection In Action: 1926 Chevrolet Pick-up
Light commercial vehicles have played vital roles in the development of countries around the world, not least on the African continent where South Africa stands proud amongst its fellow nations. Mike Monk drives a superb example of an early Chev bakkie, the likes of which helped...