Celebration of the Motorcar 2022

This weekend was a huge weekend for the motoring community with car shows in Kwinana, the Hot Rod Show in Claremont, Steaming Day at the Midland Workshops, a veteran motorcycle rally in Balingup, 'on the track' in Neerabup, American Car Show in Guildford, and Celebration of the Motorcar in Cottesloe. This is the show's 10th year since its revival in 2012. 

1960 Mercedes-Benz 190SL

1958 Mercedes-Benz 300D Adenauer limosine 

1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 Limosine formerly owned by the King of the Belgian Congo.

This was a fine vehicle and included in the boot the original leather travel cases that came with the car.

1958 Porsche 356A

1960 Porsche 356B

1934 Lancia Augusta. A new arrival from Victoria.

Alfa Romeo row

1965 Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint

1934 SS (Swallow Sidecars) SS1 Tourer. When the Second World War started, the name SS gained an unwanted association with a certain German military organization so the SS Jaguar was renamed the Jaguar SS and the SS logo replaced with the famous Jaguar mascot. 

Jaguar Mark 8

The 1910 Deasy sidles in. For a 110 year old car it sounded really quiet and smooth.

It's impressive to see pld Edwardian cars out and about at shows like this. They are under appreciated and don't get nearly enough showing. 

1970 Lanica Stratos

The very small Edwardian section

The car that got the world moving. 1913 Model T

The iconic Aston-Martin DB6.

And the DB6's modern successor - this piece of sh*t.

Maserati

Aston-Martin DB2

The magnificent 1931 Cadillac Phaeton. 

1939 Cadillac Fleetwood

1942 Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette

1929 Bentley Four and half litre 

And another - there were three

Goggomobil Dart sponsored by Shannons Insurance

G.O.GG. O

French cars in the sunken garden

Panhard and 1972 Citroen DS

Panhard PL17

1966 Renault Alpine A110

Facel Vega

Triumph row

Rolls Royce

Cadillac row

Powerhouse Motorcycle Museum, Tamworth 2022

On the outskirts of Tamworth, NSW, in a nondescript looking commercial building is the Powerhouse Motorcycle Museum. This is part of the personal collection of local collector - only about one third of their bikes are on display. All the bikes showcased at the museum are in concourse condition. 

The ground floor is a shrine to modern motorcycles.

BSA section

Ducatis

And more Ducatis

Well, one bike isn't concourse - this Harley-Davidson is 'as found'

Quite a rarity - the Noron John Player Special

MV Agusta

Honda CB1100 R

Kawasaki 1900 A4

Kawasakis

This little Ducati Sport was probably my favourite.

This is only a small museum but interesting if you like modern sports bikes. I'm more of a fan of vintage bikes myself.
https://powerhousemotorcyclemuseum.com.au/

Charlies Auto Museum, Arthur's Seat, Victoria 2022

In 2016 we visited Charlie's Auto Museum in Arthur's Seat in the Mornington Penninsula while we were driving our DKW to the Bay to Birdwood rally in Adelaide. It was a great museum with a very interesting collection. You can check out the photos here:
https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2018/03/charlies-auto-museum.html

We were in Mornington Penninsula again in October 2022 so we decided to pop in and have another look. Charlie is 94 years old now and is still manning the counter. He loves talking about cars and we had another good chat about how things are going. Some cars that were there in 2016 have been sold now. It's an amazing collection though that includes a lot more than cars and motorcycles. There is old household machinery, ship and aircraft models, and automobilia.

Welcome to the museum - CV-1 personal transporter, car of the future.

Dutch DAF and British Reliant Regal three-wheeler

Some really weird trike

Flying Corvette. It's good to see that in this age of diversity that there is nothing holding dogs back from getting their pilot's license.

A Czech Czseta scooter aka the Iron Pig and a Velocette LE.

A cute little Subaru 360. What a beauty. Few of these have survived as they're rather thin skinned and suffered terribly from rust.

A very interesting little tractorette. You see a lot of these type of machines in France in the post war period. This is powered by a small, single cylinder air-cooled industrial motor.

Fibreglass wonders - a Bond Bug

Bricklin SV-1

One Charlie's favourite cars, Tatra T613

One of my favourites, the De Soto Airstream, first year of production.
https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2016/03/1934-chrysler-airflow-first-modern-car.html

Jawa motorcycles and mopeds. The Czech Jawa sold quite well in Australia.
https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2022/07/1950-jawa-350-motorcycle.html

Kitchen and household appliances of yesteryear.

Radios and other stuff

MG TC

Some of the enormous ship models in the museum. The Titanic is some 2 metres long.

Sunbeam

This is a Volkswagen demonstrator chassis to train mechanics.

Ship modes - Graf Spee and Tirpitz - and pedal cars.

Another star of the collection is this Tatra T603.

How many old cars, bikes, machines, engines are found

In the early 2000s a group of Germans drove a Trabant around the world. The trip ended in Australia - quite literally - when one of the Trabants was rear-ended by a truck. The car was abandoned as unsalvageable and ended up in the museum. In the front is a French Solex moped.

A bizarre little off-road runabout

Fiat and Piaggio Ape

A real rarity in Australia - Wartburg 311. A lovely car.

And the iconic Australian built Goggomobil Dart.

And its 'big brother' the Goggomobil TS300 in front of a Reliant Tricar delivery van.

American postal van

Plymouth

Studebaker Avanti

The Australian Trabant - the Lightburn Zeta, one of the worst cars ever built.

Nash

Invacar. These were offered to disabled persons in the UK. They were built from 1948 to 1977. In 2003 the British government recalled all Invacars and had them scrapped. As these were only consigned to their 'owners' and not owned by them, few cars escaped destruction.

Messerschmitt KR201

Trojan built Heinkel Kabine Scooter

BMW Isetta

Bond Bug

Avanti

Ariel Motorcycle and Malvern Star moped


If you're in the Mornington Penninsula, do check out the museum. It's worth your while.
http://charliesautomuseum.com.au/