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...
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...
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),...
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...
US-based friend of FMM, Greg Harris, recently sent through copies of a Caltex postcard printed many years ago about an 1898 Covert that was undertaking a ‘Round the Union’ trip – in 1954! Seemed like quite a task – especially when I discovered that the...
The UK-based Historic Grand Prix Car Association (HGPCA) has brought 16 cars to South Africa to take part in the annual Passion For Speed races at Zwartkops on January 26/27 and Killarney on February 2/3. And six of the cars entered have South African connections...
Charles Dickens Is King! After twenty years of sponsoring South Africa’s most prestigious weight-for-age mile horse race, Gaynor Rupert and her Drakenstein team finally celebrated a victory in the 163rd running of the L’Ormarins King’s Plate at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth Race Course on January 6, courtesy...
The Festival of Motoring, renowned as Africa's premier celebration of automotive excellence, is pleased to announce the 7th edition will take place from 31 August to 1 September 2024, at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit. It marks the renewal of WesBank's naming rights partnership for...
On December 3, a group of 15 people from the UK visited FMM as part of a 12-day self-drive 4x4 tour of the Cape organised by Classic Grand Touring, a well-established company that organises classic and supercar tours and adventures around the world. The company...
A regular series about the museum’s motoring memorabilia and behind-the-scenes activities, compiled and written by FMM’s Assistant Curator Sian Theron. This month, it’s all about miniatures...
