Decades ago, someone found a beautiful, discarded, old book, The Motor Car in Western Australia. He took it home for safekeeping and, in 2016, donated it to Museum of Perth.

The focus of this exhibition is not cars, so much as the extraordinary pioneering motorists on those pages, and how the Automobile Club of Western Australia, now known as RAC, helped transform Perth, and more broadly Western Australia. Explore Perth’s early automobile history, see the magnificent 1899 Renault (Type A), said to be the oldest Renault in the world, and a 1905 De Dion Bouton Q. See how Perth’s early motorcar owners helped shape the laws and landscape of driving today.