03 May Rear-view Mirror
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A regular look back at old motoring and motor sport items...
03 May SA’s Very First Car
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It is fairly common knowledge that the Protea, shortly followed by the GSM Dart, were South Africa’s first locally-manufactured production cars. They appeared within six months of each other in 1957. But there were a couple of locally-designed and built cars that preceded these two...
30 Mar Queen Sabine
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Sabine Schmitz, Queen of the Nürburgring, professional race driver, Top Gear presenter and universally regarded as one of life’s great individuals, passed away on March 16 after a long battle with cancer. She was 51. The vast number of tributes paid to her memory from...
30 Mar Spanner Works: Michael van Graan
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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 and varied collection of vehicles. This month we feature Michael van Graan, a man in a bubble...
30 Mar Rear-view Mirror
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A regular look back at old motoring and motor sport items...
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 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...
18 Dec Rear-view mirror
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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...