25 Oct Whales, Wheels and Rotaries
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The Franschhoek Motor Museum was invited to exhibit its two rotary cars at the annual Whales and Wheels Show that took place in Hermanus on September 29. Workshop technicians Wilfred Tarentaal and Wenstley Wickham took the museum’s 1968 Mazda Cosmo Sport and the rarely seen, same era, NSU Ro80 to the annual event where they joined up with their hosts Peanuts and Rose Fouche and the rest of the Mazda Rotary Club. Collectively, they managed to put together one of the most complete and comprehensive displays of Wankel rotary-engined cars ever seen in South Africa. Even a rotary-powered lawn mower made the show, helping to make the display a cut above the rest…
