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Old 01-10-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Historic Car Racing

We have an upcoming two-stage annual event. A sizeable overseas contingent, mostly from the UK, joins in the fun. The first event is at Zwartkops Raceway west of Pretoria, about 45 mins up the road from Johannesburg, followed a week later by a similar event at the Killarney circuit in Cape Town 1,400 km away.

From the UK, ex-Le Mans racer David Piper in a Porsche 917 (check the size of the steering wheel!), followed by a local lightweight BMW M635.


Local motorsport legend Sarel 'Supervan' van der Merwe in a 7 litre Ford Galaxy. This car is massive, weighs two tons & has leaf spring rear suspension!


From the UK, an extremely rare (& prbably priceless) Alfa Romeo T33.


A Chevron B16, Lola T70, Porsche RS & a Chevron B21.
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A Ford Mustang & an Alfa Romeo Giulietta.


A lightweight E-Type Jaguar.


A locally manufactured & built GT40 kit car. This machine is immaculate & very fast. There are companies here that manufacture Cobra & Lotus 7 kit cars & most, if not all, Noble sports cars are made here.
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A couple of bikes

This is primarily a car event. There is, however, a bike class but it's run as a parade rather than as a race. I don't know why but I guess it's for safety reasons because about half the riders are already over retirement age & no-one wants to see anybody get hurt.

There are Greeves & Bultaco 2 stroke singles, Yamaha twins plus lots of four stroke singles & twins.

A Rob North Trident.


Six time world champion Jim Redman on a Honda 250-4. That bike sounds fantastic.


The Pretoria event will take place on Sat 2nd February & I've already got a ticket.

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