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Riding the Wall of Death

Posted on Tuesday 28 July 2015

Written by Pauline Cockrill | July 28th, 2015 History SA volunteer Michelle Toft has just got her motorcycle licence, so we asked her to ride the Wa...

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The Rise and Fall of John DeLorean

Posted on Monday 22 June 2015

Written by Mick Bolognese | June 22nd, 2015 Forget The Wolf of Wall Street: my prediction is that one blockbuster waiting to happen is the rise and...

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Godzilla!

Posted on Wednesday 22 April 2015

Written by Mick Bolognese | April 22nd, 2015 I left some of you with a cliffhanger last month… I say ‘some’ because ‘Godzilla’ quickly...

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Everyone knows the Leyland Brothers, right?

Posted on Tuesday 31 March 2015

Written by Mick Bolognese | March 31st, 2015 ‘… and this car was actually driven across Australia by the Leyland Brothers.’ My colleague pause...

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But why V8s?

Posted on Tuesday 03 March 2015

Written by Mick Bolognese | March 3rd, 2015 Adelaide’s Clipsal 500 is one the most popular events in Australia’s sporting calendar, and while it...

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Australia Day the National Motor Museum way

Posted on Tuesday 27 January 2015

Written by Mick Bolognese | January 27th, 2015 A look at one of our most beloved inventions and its ties to the National Motor Museum  Well, Austra...

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From usual suspect to special guest

Posted on Friday 19 December 2014

Written by Mick Bolognese | December 19th, 2014 Graber’s bus returns to Lobethal for the Christmas Pageant on Tuesday December 23 To make the Lobe...

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Throwback Thursday: the 1994 Adelaide Grand Prix

Posted on Monday 20 October 2014

Written by Mick Bolognese | November 27th, 2014 Thought the final Formula 1 race of 2014 was anticlimactic? Here’s a flashback to the drama of the...

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Get to the chopper!

Posted on Sunday 19 October 2014

Written by Mick Bolognese | October 20th, 2014 When Australian Customs contacted us to donate a backyard-built chopper from the former Soviet Union ...

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A pearl of a Packard

Posted on Wednesday 01 October 2014

Written by Mick Bolognese | October 1st, 2014 Museum staff member Caroline talks to us about entering the 2014 Bay to Birdwood run in her Packard li...

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