Pomc
Car in Pretoria

Today the POMC boasts with almost 300 active members who collectively hold more than 1500 cars and motorcycles.

Members of the POMC are from all walks of life and bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience in many different fields. It brings them together and it keeps them together. The POMC also runs an active calendar covering monthly meetings at the Club House, social gatherings, formal rallies of oldies and numerous social runs. The get togethers and displays are very important components of the Club’s success. The most notable display is the annual Cars in the Park staged on the first Sunday in August every year. This is the single biggest get together of like minded enthusiasts in South Africa. Hundreds of old vehicles from all over Gauteng and other parts of the country are exhibited by POMC members and other Clubs under their own banners. There is always an interesting car or motorcycle in the clubhouse. Members enjoy the stimulating company of fellow enthusiasts, exchange of ideas and tips, news of other old vehicles up for sale, where to obtain scarce spare parts or where to insure their vehicles. Anyone is eligible to join, with or without an old vehicle. Subscriptions are modest and are often covered by savings on insurance. Enthusiasts represent all walks of life, often with the only common thread being the internal combustion engine and its trappings. Our club house is at the dead-end of Keuning Street, off Watermeyer street in Silverton (around the corner from and behind the Pioneer museum and Fire Brigade). The club house facilities are also available for rental/function. There is a definite place for the young, technology driven generation, to get involved in the movement. These are also more affordable than the really old and rare ones out there. If you do not start thinking and planning, you will most likely not get involved. Joining a club like Pretoria Old Motor Club can be of great help in the initial year or so when one needs to gain knowledge and a network of support around you. Get them and get involved with the preservation of these heritage items. Some have survived the melting pots of the recyclers, some were tucked away in a save place, same came down the family as an inheritance, many are found in an appalling state of decay. Neither here nor there, motor vehicles can be great investments and have a very high value in the monetary sense or be just a nice, well restored old vehicle with fair value. It is in the presence of these oldies that one will find the enthusiast like the members of the Pretoria Old Motor Club. We hunt the vehicles down, find them in bushes, as heaps of rust or in a reasonable condition and lovingly over many moons rebuild them piece by piece. Preservation, passion and fool hardiness are the underpinning reasons for getting involved in old vehicle collection and restoration.