A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE ON THE KAPITI COAST

The Southward Car Museum is an automobile museum housing a collection of over 400 vehicles, as well as three aircraft, located on Otaihanga Road, Otaihanga, just north of Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast.

The museum is a purpose-built building, featuring a 6000 square metre exhibition hall, engineering workshop, gift shop, and small cafe, all set in park-like grounds. The building also includes a 474-seat theatre, and features a 1929 Wurtlitzer theatre organ, which was originally installed in the Civic Theatre in Auckland.

The museum’s collection includes:

• 1895 Benz Velo, imported to New Zealand in 1900.
• 1915 Stutz Indianapolis race car
• Gull-winged Mercedes-Benz
• 1934 Cadillac V-16 Town Cabriolet – once owned by American actress Marlene Dietrich
• 1939 Mercedes-Benz 770 – believed to have been intended as a gift for Edward VIII after the planned German invasion of Britain
• 1950 Cadillac “gangster special” – belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen
• DeLorean – best known from the Back to the Future movie series, the only DeLorean on public display in New Zealand.