Southward Car Museum

The Southward Car Museum is an automobile museum housing a group of over four hundred cars, in addition to three plane, placed on Otaihanga Road, Otaihanga, simply north of Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. The museum is run via a charitable believe, included in 1972. Approximately an hour's force from downtown Wellington and is situated among the North Island Main Trunk railway to the west and State Highway 1 to the east. The museum is a motive-constructed building, providing a 6000 square metre exhibition hall, engineering workshop, gift store, and small cafe, prepared in park-like grounds.

The building also includes a 474-seat theatre, and features a 1929 Wurtlitzer theatre organ, which become originally set up in the Civic Theatre in Auckland. The middle-vehicle series became the private work of Sir Len Southward and his spouse Vera. A pioneering marine engineering and speed enthusiast, on 22 February 1953 he powered his boat "Redhead" throughout Wellington harbour to emerge as the first man in Australasia to travel at over 100mph on water.