At the beginning of September, FMM’s workshop welcomed 30-year-old JP du Plessis as the new technician. Jean-Pierre was born and raised in Cape Town and after school he attended Cape Tech where after three years tuition he graduated with a National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering...
In October, FMM’s slot car group had the second race night on the new four-lane circuit and lap times are already beginning to improve. Jon Lederle was the winner in the premier Formula Carrera category with his Audi RS5 DTM covering 113 laps, followed by...
In August, members of the local Ford Model A Club celebrated the model’s birth when some 30 examples met at the Engen 1-Stop on the N1 from where they were driven in convoy to FMM for a motoring picnic. The car was launched in 1928...
On Sunday 22 September, Garth Hendricks invited FMM to attend the Honda Hook-up world record attempt with the museum’s NSX that took place at Cape Town’s Grand West Casino parking lot in front of the conference venue. Curator Wayne Harley did the honours as the...
FMM is proud to be the custodian of rallying Springboks Ewold and Minota-Ann van Bergen’s trophy collection and recently were visited by Minota-Ann’s sister Patricia von Hohenberg with a few of her friends. In 1960, Ewold and Minota-Ann (née Van Niekerk) became SA’s first official...
This year, Bentley celebrates its centenary and to mark the occasion, Mike Monk drives one of the short-lived early-’50s Type R saloons...
FMM Curator Wayne Harley’s scoots off into history on a Vespa, which owes its existence to an Italian who disliked motorcycles...
This month, FMM Assistant Curator Cheslynne Ruiters takes a look at the history of speedometers...
Wendy Monk picks out some interesting historic items from FMM’s photos archives. We start the series with a South African record-breaking run by Dunlop On 16 August 2002, the Spirit of Dunlop, shod with SP Sport 7000Ds, set a South African Land Speed Record and a World Land Speed...
South African race fans are set for a sensational showdown when the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy comes to a dramatic head at the Killarney International Raceway season finale 9-10 November. Swede Timmy Hansen won the penultimate World RX round in Latvia...
