02 May Vehicle Design
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With a flair for the artistic, Acting Curator Sian Theron delves into automotive design...
02 May Mustang Celebration
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Acting Curator Sian Theron reports on FMM’s participation in a Ford Mustang celebration – and dressed up for the occasion...
02 May The Lady Racers
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The pre-war South African GPs attracted the world’s finest female competitors. Wendy Monk recalls their achievements...
02 May Forward Thinking
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Raymond Loewy’s glass fibre-bodied, four-seater high-performance grand tourer was advertised as the inspiration for all ’63 Studebakers, but the concept was doomed from the start...
02 May A Rugby Star
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These days we are all well aware of various automotive brands being part of a group, but when did it all begin? William C Durant was a pioneer of the concept, and Rugby was only one player in the game plan...
02 May Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
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Mike Monk delves into the paranormal and relates the remarkable history of FMM’s Silver Ghost...
02 May Rolls-Royce Extravaganza
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Apart from the longer-term hall display changes, a Rolls-Royce road show took place from April 19-21 in Hall B. Rolls-Royce provided a number of cars for display and combined with the museum’s examples, the range of models ran from FMM’s 1915 Silver Ghost right up...
06 Mar Lemons 9-Hour Race
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The Lemons 9-Hour Race is set to make history in Cape Town as Africa's largest motorsport happening holds its inaugural mother city event, the Mischief Garage 9-Hour, on July 5-6 at Killarney International Raceway. Building on the success of the 9- and 24-Hour races in...
06 Mar Motor Mech Show
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Excitement is building in preparation for the first-ever Western Cape Motor Mech Show, which will be held at HTS Drostdy on Saturday 9 March. HTS Drostdy is the only fully-fledged technical high school in the Boland, in collaboration with the Motor Industry Workshop Association (MIWA),...
06 Mar Caracal
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FMM recently acquired a rare South African car, the Caracal. It was conceived in the late-1980s by Intermotormakers, a Cape Town company established in the mid-1970s to assemble Lamborghinis and Lotuses, a scheme cut short when the Government withdrew an exemption clause from the industry’s...