25 Feb On Yer Bike: Moto Guzzi
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FMM Curator Wayne Harley wishes Moto Guzzi a happy 100th birthday...
25 Feb Rear-view Mirror
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This month another hotchpotch of old motor items: a Dawn query, racing driver payments and courtesy on the road...
25 Feb Spanner Works: Wenstley Wicomb
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A regular feature outlining the activities of FMM’s workshop personnel who are responsible for repairing, renovating, refurbishing and restoring the museum’s large collection of vehicles. This month we feature Wenstley Wicomb’s revival of a Strato Chief...
28 Jan Rear-view mirror
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Something a little different this month. As many of us crave to be able to physically attend a motor sporting event and experience the sights, sounds, smells and excitement again, 85 years ago South Africans were having the same desires – which, thankfully, had nothing...
28 Jan Viper On View
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A new exhibit on view at FMM is a Viper GT2 Competition Coupe currently belonging to Cape Town’s Harp Motorsport. Following Dodge's official end of its factory-backed racing programme in 2001, as well as the redesigning of the Viper in 2003, the first generation GTS-Rs...
28 Jan Tyrrell On Track
While on a regular visit to South Africa, UK classic car celebrity Iain Tyrrell and his fiancée Melanie recently made an impromptu call at FMM that coincided with some of the museum’s race cars being exercised on PlaasPad. So, a plan was made for the...
28 Jan On yer bike: BMW F900 XR
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A relief from COVID restrictions for FMM Curator Wayne Harley as he Beems himself to Rooi Els...
28 Jan Collection in action: Ford Model A 1928
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Following on the Queen’s Plate’s blue-and-white theme, Mike Monk goes back to ‘A’ beginning in Ol’ Henry’s second runaway sales success...
28 Jan L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and FMM
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Jet Dark, the only three year-old in the 2021 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, delivered a knockout blow to accomplished older horses in a 1 600-metre epic run at Kenilworth Race Course on Saturday January 9. Ridden by Grant van Niekerk, on the finishing straight Jet Dark...
18 Dec L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and FMM
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L’Ormarins has confirmed that the country’s year-opening horse racing event, the Queen’s Plate Racing Festival, will take place on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 January 2021. It will be a landmark event in more ways than one – 2021 not only marks the 160th running...