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<\/a><\/p>\nThe birth of the museum\u2019s collection took place in 1974 with the establishment of a transport museum at the Heidelberg railway station in Gauteng. Initiated and backed by local entrepreneur and conservationist Dr. Anton Rupert, his enthusiasm and appreciation of the automobile led to an ongoing acquisition of a large number of vehicles both individually and from other collections, which ultimately led to a decision in 2004 to relocate the museum\u2019s contents to the family\u2019s estate in Franschhoek. Dr. Rupert passed away in 2006, shortly before the new museum was opened on 7 May 2007, but his equally auto-enthusiast son Johann has continued to develop the museum\u2019s eminence.<\/p>\n
From the rare to the exotic, from the innovative to the commercial, this superb 300+ collection of vehicles, most of which are in show condition, have been brought together not only from within South Africa but from around the globe. The oldest is an 1898 Beeston motor tricycle \u2013 a 1903 Ford Model A is the oldest four-wheeler. Among the unique models are examples of South Africa\u2019s only two totally home-grown marques, the GSM Dart\/Flamingo and the Protea.<\/p>\n
The Franschhoek Motor Museum\u2019s ever-expanding inventory rivals that of most similar private collections around the world and represents a living tribute to one family\u2019s passion for the automobile. For video and photo galleries of the collection, monthly newsletters, and any other information about the museum, log on to www.fmm.co.za.<\/p>\n\n\n The Franschhoek Motor Museum is a world-class facility situated on the L\u2019Ormarins Estate in the majestic Franschhoek Valley, which is a 1 hour\/75 kilometres drive from central Cape Town. The museum\u2019s Cape Dutch architecture reflects the area\u2019s origins and the exhibition space covers 2 700 m2. Set amongst some expansive Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[273,274,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africansafarisint.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"