Franschhoek Motor Museum, Automotive museum in Stellenbosch Local Municipality, South Africa.
The Franschhoek Motor Museum houses over 220 vehicles displayed across four climate-controlled exhibition spaces arranged in chronological order. The collection spans more than a century of automotive development and includes classic cars, motorcycles, and transportation equipment.
The collection reaches back to the earliest days of motorization and shows how automotive technology developed over time. It documents the role this technology played in South Africa's past.
The collection includes vehicles built in South Africa, such as the 1957 Protea, the 1962 Flamingo and the 1963 GSM Dart, shown alongside models from overseas. A 1903 Ford Model A and an 1898 motorcycle are among the older pieces. The museum sits on the L'Ormarins wine estate, which also produces Rupert Wines.
The museum sits on the L'Ormarins Estate along the R45, about 70 km from Cape Town, between Drakenstein and Wemmershoek. The four halls face a shared courtyard, so visitors move between buildings on foot. The collection rotates, with 80 of the vehicles on display at a time, so what you see changes between visits.
The museum holds an Aston Martin DB2/4 MkII Touring Spyder, one of only three such models in the world, alongside a motorcycle from 1898 and a 1903 Ford Model A. South African-built cars such as the 1957 Protea, the 1962 Flamingo and the 1963 GSM Dart are also in the collection.
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