Highlights of the Fox Classic Car Collection! | Melbourne, Australia

My wife, our son and his girlfriend took a vacation to Australia, with stops in Melbourne, Cairnes, and Adelaide. I aways try to find time to see classic cars and I was able to do so in Melbourne. In Melbourne we visted the Fox Classic Car Collection; a private car collection in downtown Melbourne open to the public.

Here are some highlights of our visit and details of the classic car collection.

Lindsay Fox: The Founder

Lindsay Fox built his logistics empire from a single delivery truck into Linfox and used that success to assemble one of Australia’s most serious private car collections. The Fox Classic Car Collection was assembled over five decades by Lindsay Fox and opened to the public as a museum in 1997, formed from his lifelong passion for cars and motoring culture. The collection is maintained as a trust with the aim of supporting charities and giving the public access to rare and historically important automobiles

Fox Classic Car Collection

Ferrari appears throughout the collection, from iconic road-going thoroughbreds to mid 90s hyper-cars. The museum has exhibited Ferraris such as the F40, F50 and Enzo-class models that showcase Ferrari’s evolution from race bred engineering to road legends. Mercedes-Benz is strongly represented with classic Gullwing and SL models that trace postwar luxury and performance. The collection also displays rarities like the Jaguar XJ220 and important Porsche and Bentley examples that speak to both speed and coachbuilding traditions.

Rotating Exhibitions

The Fox Collection is curated as an evolving show rather than a static archive. Cars rotate through themed displays and special exhibitions — for example ‘Porsche v Ferrari’ or ‘Best of British’ — so each visit can reveal new pairings and stories about design, competition, and technological innovation.

Visitors’ Experience

Visitors move through the Queen’s Warehouse between polished metal and descriptive placards while guides and interactive elements bring individual car histories to life. Racing simulators and hands on displays complement the archival experience and invite people to engage with motoring culture, not just look at it. The young ones enjoyed the racing game and spent some time there while my wife and I explored and filmed the museum.

Closing Notes

The Fox Classic Car Museum preserves and celebrates automotive craftsmanship, social history, and engineering achievement while returning value to the community through charitable aims. It stands as a reminder that cars are more than machines: they are stories in steel, glass and leather, housed in a building that itself is part of Melbourne’s layered past.

This was a very enjoyqable stop and we all enjoyed our time at the Fox Classic Car Museum!