01
Classic
Pre-1980 machinery, unrestored where possible, on the west end of the hall where the light comes in off the museum glazing.
The cars · Sunday 29 November 2026
The cars at Ghost Motorfest
What is on the floor at a Cape Town car show built indoors — four themed halls, 70+ cars, and the mix of classic, sports, stance and race machinery the show is put together around.
02 — Themes
4 bands, no fences
Themes are labels, not barriers. Bays are tagged by position, so the bands blend at the boundary and no floor is lost to internal rails — retitle them freely.
02
Sports
The quick stuff. Coupes and roadsters, parked nose-out so the door lines and the stance read from the aisle.
Coupes and roadsters, nose-out.
03
Stance
Fitment, wheels and ride height. Given the most floor per car in the whole hall, so nothing crowds an arch or a sill.
Wheels, fitment and ride height.
04
Race
Purpose-built and ex-competition cars, closest to the service doors so they can be rolled in on their own wheels.
Purpose-built and ex-competition cars.
Four themed halls
The display is split into four bands — Classic, Sports, Stance and Race — laid out across the main hall and the museum floor. They are labels rather than barriers: bays are tagged by position, so the bands blend at the boundaries and no floor is lost to internal rails.
The bands exist so that a visitor can walk from unrestored pre-1980 machinery to an ex-competition car in a few steps, and so that each kind of build gets the light and the floor it deserves.
What counts as a show car
Ghost Motorfest is built around the machines people actually own and drive: classic cars kept and run, sports cars and roadsters, fitment-led builds where the wheels, stance and ride height are the point, and purpose-built or ex-competition cars that come in on their own wheels.
Every car on the floor is entered by its owner through the exhibitor application, and slots are allocated by a panel rather than first-come — so the line-up is a curated mix rather than whoever paid first.
How the line-up is chosen
Car, bike and protected display positions are capped, and selection is by the panel, not first-come. A car entry comes with tickets for the owner and a place to bring the car in through the venue's roller shutters — the doors are measured, so width and height matter and are published on the exhibitor page.
The confirmed line-up is announced as the show approaches. Until then, the photography on this site is a portrait of the kind of machinery the show is built for rather than of the day itself.
