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...
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...
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...
Last month we reported on the Crankhandle Club’s 7th Oily Rag Run that took place on November 22. The event also marked a debut appearance for FMM new newsletter compiler, Jade MacDonald, who took pictures pre, during and post the Run that capture the spirit...
Some interesting historic images from FMM’s and the Mike & Wendy Monk photo archives, some with a story, others without. This month a look back at what identified cars 100 years ago...
A new, 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 and how he set about making an 81-year-old Mercedes-Benz get up and go...
Something a bit different for this Christmas newsletter – a look back at a local racer who was lightning quick...
Summer’s here and time to let the hood down in a fin-tastic example of American automotive excess. Mike Monk goes cruisin’ in Cadillac’s outrageous Series 62 convertible...
The Crankhandle Club’s 7th Oily Rag Run for unrestored cars built before 1966 took place on Sunday 22 November. Eighteen vehicles took part, completing a 112-km scenic route starting and finishing at FMM, which for the first time included a couple of laps of the...
Take a special wild horse then add some snake venom and you create a unique load carrier with a Shelby link. Mike Monk rides a pony cart that somehow did not tame the Wild West...
