Proud of our past, passionate about our future.
RELEASE OF ECONOMIC VALUE STUDY
Survey reveals Australia’s historic vehicle owners spend over $9.9 billion annually
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Welcome to the AMHF
Our vision is to preserve and promote Australia’s motor heritage
Located at Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek, Australia’s heart of motoring passion, the AMHF is a strategic partner of the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC).
The AMHF’s collection started with our chair Hugh King’s personal collection and has already attracted other special material including the late historian Graham Howard’s unique motor racing archive collection.
Curated and managed solely by volunteers, the AMHF is a registered charity, with Deductible Gift Recipient status for the Library. We depend on the generosity of our friends and supporters, and greatly value your support to enable us to expand our archive and champion Australia’s motoring heritage.
If you would like to join us, volunteer or provide the Foundation with a gift, please let us know.
The AMHF’s Mission
The Australian Motor Heritage Foundation is dedicated to to maintaining a comprehensive archive and library of materials about Australia’s motor heritage for the benefit of all Australians through preservation, education and research as we’re proud of our past and passionate about our future.
Preservation
We are particularly keen to help preserve the historical knowledge that exists in the thousands of motor clubs across Australia and we’re also eager to preserve our history of motor racing, of motor cycling, of aviation in all its forms, and of road haulage by truck or bus.
We have established a library and archive for this purpose. It is a research library and we are aiming to make our information available in digital form as widely as possible. Our book and magazine collection has tens of thousands of volumes. We also have a substantial and growing collection of audio-visual items that includes photos, brochures, prints and videos.
Education
We would like to assist anyone who has an interest in Australia’s motor heritage. We are open to requests from primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions and we are currently seeking government support for our program for primary and secondary school projects.
We are not ‘just a library’ (although that is a significant part of who we are). We are also seeking to foster social cohesion through public seminars, lectures and informal gatherings so we can share our passion for motoring with the widest possible audience.
Research
We also welcome approaches from those who have an academic interest in our collection. We would also like to become a source of information for the automotive and advertising industries, journalists, preservationists and inventive entrepreneurs.
We also intend to connect with and participate digitally with the many overseas foundations and heritage centres having similar objectives.
Partner Organisations and Foundations
The AMHF is part of an extended group of organisations all over the world who share common goals and values.
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BIRTLES AND THE BEAN UPDATE
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Dunedoo’s Lost Race Tracks
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So who did design the first Holden?
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A chat with Peter Davis
by Peter Robinson Peter Davis, the American designer who helped create one of the most controversially styled cars of the past 50 years, was guest speaker at the AMHF earlier in the year. Briefly, Peter’s career as a car designer…
ZA Fairlane from Design to Driveway
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