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Old 13-06-2023, 05:06 AM   #1
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Hi,
I’m going to Melbourne very soon and was wondering if there is still a Ford Museum of any sort at Broadmeadows or Geelong.
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Old 13-06-2023, 06:04 AM   #2
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I’m going to Melbourne very soon and was wondering if there is still a Ford Museum of any sort at Broadmeadows or Geelong.
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No. The Ford Discovery centre in Geelong closed quite a few years ago.
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No but there is the Geelong Museum of motoring which i believe has some Ford stuff in it.
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Old 13-06-2023, 11:38 AM   #4
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No but there is the Geelong Museum of motoring which i believe has some Ford stuff in it.
That may have closed as well.
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No but there is the Geelong Museum of motoring which i believe has some Ford stuff in it.
What happen to first Orange AWD Ford Territory?? Did end up in car crusher??
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What happen to first Orange AWD Ford Territory?? Did end up in car crusher??
Ford either kept or donated the contents of the old Ford Discovery Centre.
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It was at the Geelong Museum before they closed along with many other ex Ford Discovery displays, you can see it in the old website images below:

https://www.gmom.com.au/wp/gallery/
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Old 13-06-2023, 03:20 PM   #8
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Thanks for the reply everyone……. I’ll just have to go and visit a local MG dealership and walk around then……. Ha ha
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If you are passing via Shepparton, there’s a car museum there, or 2 Holden ones, 1 in Echuca and one in east Gippsland in trafalgar
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Probs a bit out of the way, but there is the Gippsland Vehicle Collection located in Maffra, about 200km east of Melbs.

https://www.gippslandvehiclecollection.org.au/

Not specifically Fords, but they do have a varied collection.
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Amazing Ford tractor museum in Nyah Victoria.
Not cars but an amazing collection of Ford tractors and a few trucks collected from all over the world.
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Lindsay Fox has a pretty good car museum in Mebourne, might be worth a look.
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Lindsay Fox has a pretty good car museum in Mebourne, might be worth a look.
I did the tour of his museum back-to-back with a factory tour of Broadmeadow's. This was circa 2003 when Broadmeadow's was at capacity.
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I ended up going to the car museum at Launceston as it was part of our trip. They had a couple of nice Falcons there plus the HQ Monaro that almost fell off the Tasman bridge in Hobart in 1975 when one of the pillons was struck my a ship called the MV Lake Illawarra.
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