Classic Cars in Rhodesia

Car Club and Rally Badges

Matabeleland Car Club	Lusaka Car Club	Dunlop Car Club
Vintage Touring Association Mashonaland
MG Car Club of Rhodesia	Ndola Motor Sports Club	Sables Motor Club
Shell Reliability Run with dates for 1972 and 1973 for 1930 Ford A	Total Rally to Lorenco Marques Mocambique, finishers disc	Triumph Sports Car Club Rhodesia 1963
Vintage Car Club	Volvo Car Club Rhodesia
Thanks to Grahame Johnson for the photos above
BP Challenge Rally 1965	Donnybrook 200 Club	Central African Rally finishers badge 1971
Mashonaland Motor Car Club	PMC Total Rally 1959	Total Rhodesian Rally finishers badge 1972 and 1973
Volvo Challenge Rally 1964
Thanks to Peter Cox for the photos above
MG Car Club of Rhodesia	Dunlop Car Club of Rhodesia	AA of Rhodesia
Triumph Sports Car Club of Rhodesia	Mashonaland Motor Car Club	AA of Rhodesia
Sables Motor Club	Shell Reliability Run 1972 & 1973 for Rolls-Royce 20hp	Shell Reliability Run 1972 & 1973 for Rolls-Royce Phantom I
Thanks to Brian Goodall for the photos above
Rally of the Zambesi Valley - 1986		Southern Rhodesia Road Safety Association
Thanks to Mike Wesson for the photos above		Thanks to Ken Arnold for the photos above
Vintage Car Club of Matabeleland - WMK Collection -         Club History	Matabeleland Motor Cycle Club - Blazer badge worn by  Cecil Lyle who was John Love's mechanic in the 1950s. Thanks to Colin Lyle	Manicaland Motoring Club lapel badge - Thanks to Nevin E. Downes
Bulawayo Stock Car Drivers Association 1982 - Fred Strydom - Photo courtesy of Shane Bruce Abbott
V 20 Club of Nyasaland (Malawi) - thanks to Tony Hawken of Blantyre, Malawi
This is a short history of the formation of what is believed to be the second Motor Car Club in Nyasaland, later Malawi. The first club is the Nyasaland Motor Car Club, their badge shows a Leopard on a rock, with the sun's rays behind it. As to the V 20 club, in 1955, a small group of car enthustiasts gathered together for a braai (BBQ) at the home of John Whitelock, ChiefEngineer at the Imperial Tobacco Company. Between them they had an impressive array of vintage cars and motorcycles, together with some post war classics and it was decided to offer membership to anyone interested in preserving classic vehicles over the age of twenty years, thus was born the V 20 Club. Members at that time were John Whitelock, Colin Keeley, Carl Kilner, Max Bruessow and Dudley Taylor. Tony Hawken joined the club around July 1968. The club was not officially registered and did not have a constitution and possibly no fee. Meetings were normally braai's at members' houses on a Sunday morning. The badge was designed by Max Bruessow (an Architect) to design a suitable badge. This was done and twenty badges were cast in aluminium, polished and engraved with the simple heading 'TWENTY' under the Vee.
Cars known to have been owned by V 20 club members include: 1932 Talbot roadster, 1922 Fiat, 1925 Fiat, 1927 Austin 7, 1948 Delahaye, 1935 Bentley, Fiat 850, Fiat 124 sports coupe, 1961 Mini Cooper, 1943 Harley-Davidson with sidecar, 1955 Austin Healey BN3, 1927 Model A, 1948 Sunbeam S8s, Brough Superior, 1920s Indian, 1952 Bentley, Rolls-Royce coupe, 1951 MG TD, 1950 Mercedes Ponton Convertible, 1950 Mercedes Limousine ex Haile Selassie, 1955 MG TF, 1952 MG TD, 1948 Jaguar XK120 (rare RHD alloy body), 1965 Sunbeam Tiger, 1968 MGC Roadster, 1948 Jaguar 2.5-litre, 1958 Jaguar 2.4-litre, 1926 Austin 7, 1958 Austin Healey Sprite, 1955 Triumph TR3, 1960 Zephyr Zodiac convertible, 938 MG WA Tickford, various motorcycles, Ford Starliner V8, 1967 Ford Mustang, 1955 Pontiac V8, 1950 Austin Sheerline ex Governor General's car, Sunbeam Rapier, Humber Sceptre.
Institute of Advanced Motorists, Tanganyika, issued to C.V. Rossenrode - Thanks to Brian Rossenrode - Mr Rossenrode's VW can be seen here

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