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YAMAHA TZ KREIDLER MOTORCYCLES ISUZU BELLETT R47.00 incl VAT November 2017 GIULIA ALFA ROMEO’S COMEBACK KID McLAREN M6BGT MERCEDES-BENZ 450SEL 6.9 A CANAM RACER FOR THE ROAD THE CALM BEFORE THE AMG STORM CHARLES SORENSEN | MASERATI A6GCS REPLICA | JAGUAR XK120 Porsche Classic_210x276.qxp_Layout 1 2017/10/11 11:18 AM Page 1 Location: Weissach. Grade: Porsche. For all generations since 1948. Porsche Classic Motoroil. Developed in Weissach. Made in Germany. The elixir of life for all air-cooled Porsche horizontally opposed engines – for maximum protection against corrosion and wear. CLASSIC Available in 20W-50 and 10W-60 variants. Now at your Porsche Classic Partner and in your Porsche Centre. Porsche Centre Cape Town Corner Century Avenue and Summer Greens Drive, More at www.porsche.com/classic Century City Telephone 021 555 6800 www.porschecapetown.com CONTENTS — CARS BIKES PEOPLE AFRICA — NOVEMBER 2017 AGE DOESN’T MATTER VEE FOR VICTORY 03 Editor’s point of view 68 Yamaha TZ Twins CLASSIC CALENDAR THE SMALL-CAPACITY KING 06 Upcoming events for 2017 72 Kreidler Motorcycles NEWS & EVENTS STAND BY ME 08 All the latest from the classic scene 78 Charles Sorensen IN FULL BLOOM MY FIRST LOVE 18 Classic book review 82 Reader’s Ride MY DRIVE BACK TO THE FUTURE CAPE THRILLER 20 The Hurst Shifter 86 NRC Classic Rally Class WELL-TUNED PLATINUM CELEBRATION 22 Backseat Driver – 88 Killarney 70th Anniversary a female perspective ON A HINOTE LETTERS 90 75 years of Hino trucks 24 Have your say GEARBOX THE PURR-FECT ADDITION TO 96 Classified adverts 28 ANY OCCASION Carbs & Coffee THE COMEBACK KID 32 Alfa Romeo Giulia COMMUTER CANAM 38 McLaren M6BGT BUCKING THE TREND 44 Maserati A6 GCS replica THE CAT THAT GOT THE CREAM 50 Jaguar XK120 THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM 56 Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 RING THE BELLS 38 62 Isuzu Bellett www.classiccarafrica.com | November 2017 | 1 PART 2 OF 3 | WATCH THIS SPACE Exotic Car Servicing & Repairs Mechanical & Cosmetic Restoration Custom One-Off Projects From specialist metal fabrication, Vehicle Interior Restoration welding, cutting, panel restoration and spraypainting, right through to glass restoration, auto trimming, electrical work and mechanical rebuilds. 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[email protected] constantly. The magazine sales Although unintentional, it seems as if we’ve Tel: 082 330 3446 Dhave seen an increase and judging by the gone a bit Italian this month. Apart from Fax: 086 568 0193 number of mails I get asking about where to Cameron’s Fiat, Graeme Hurst also catches Advertising look for a classic, a restorer, parts supplier up with an insanely beautiful Maserati A6 GCS [email protected] or insurance backer for a new-old toy, our replica painstakingly built in the Cape, and I game is no longer just for the ‘anoraks’ with take a look at the Alfa name that’s on the rise www.classiccarafrica.com years of experience. For some, investment is both in a classic and modern sense – the Alfa Postnet suite 27 the reason but for the most part it’s the stroll Romeo Giulia. Private Bag X20 down nostalgia lane, the joy of preserving Balance is restored to the mix as Sivan Cresta something, a break from the monotony of a Goren gets to grips with the iconic Jaguar 2194 modern machine and the camaraderie shared XK120, and Mike Monk drives a road-legal between similar minds. CanAm racing-derived McLaren M6BGT as It struck me just how powerful this bond is at well as a 6.9-litre super saloon Mercedes- a recent event we hosted with Rim & Rubber. Benz 450SEL. Jake Venter conducts a In one corner sat a Model A Ford, a pair of fictitious interview with Henry Ford’s right- 60-odd-year-old Rolls-Royces and a Fiat 500, hand man Charles Sorensen, and to celebrate while at the other end were a Ferrari 328GTB, Isuzu’s 80th birthday, I find the coolest offering Porsche 911, BMW 635CSi and Audi RS4 from the brand – no it’s not a KB bakkie, it’s a wagon of much newer vintages. In between Bellett 1600GT. there were Beetles, Triumph TRs, MGBs, For the bikers out there, Gavin Foster delves Minis, Alfa Spiders, BMW 2002s, a behemoth into the small-capacity Kreidler motorcycle Cadillac and some tastefully built café racer- history and triggers our racing memories with styled custom bikes. Picking out the owners a feature on the Yamaha TZ racers. of each car was not as easy as one would Of course there is all the usual, like The publishers make every effort to ensure this magazine’s contents are correct. All material think – they all sat talking the same talk and our calendar of upcoming events, news, published in Classic Car Africa is copyright and admiring each other’s machines, and just when motorsport coverage, shows, model and book unauthorised reproduction is forbidden. The opinion of contributors, as published, are not you thought the older gent would climb into reviews and more alongside our favourite necessarily the opinions held by the publishers or his pre-war machine, he blipped the remote section – your letters. Keep these coming, this editors of Classic Car Africa. The publishers and editors make no representations, nor do they give to unlock his old model Porsche. In a similar is just as much your magazine as it is ours. any warranties, guarantees or assurances, for any goods or services advertised herein. fashion, the Fiat 500 owner was not old enough to drive his own car – his Dad drove him down. Stuart www.classiccarafrica.com | November 2017 | 3 FRANSCHHOEK MOTOR MUSEUM NEWS A VIANA 745 CELEBRATION There was a double celebration at FMM on Sunday 8 October when a group of overseas and local BMW International club members visited FMM to view the museum’s exhibits and sample some of the L’Ormarins wines. A surprise for the visitors took place when Paolo Cavalieri performed a couple of demonstration laps around the quadrangle in the legendary Winfield BMW 745i that won the 1985 Group One Modified Saloon Car Championship in the hands of Tony Viana. The previous day, Paolo had raced the car in the Access Auto Classic Car event at the Power Series meeting at Killarney Raceway, finishing third – but only after a slight coming-together with another competitor in an early-lap multicar melee in Turn 2 caused some slight damage to the left-hand side of the car. The large crowd was certainly thrilled at the sight and sound of the distinctive red-and- white liveried Beemer. Earlier in the day, FMM workshop manager Lorenzo Farella received a painting of this unique BMW, presented to the museum by Paolo and Alec Ceprnich, a BMW technician who runs Evolution 2 Motorsport (that restored and maintains the car for Paolo). Originally built by Viana and Kobus van der Walt, the 745i is powered by an M88 3.6-litre version of BMW’s immortal straight-six engine as used in the M1 sportscar and measured at the Reef, the twin-cam 24-valve motor pumps out 262kW at the rear wheels. Peak revs are 7200. The gearbox is a Getrag close-ratio 5-speed with dog-leg first. Together with upgraded brakes and suspension, the 745i stands out as a prime example of successful race car innovation that South Africa has produced over many years. A BLOOMING CENTENNIAL TRIUMPH This year the annual Darling Wildflower Show celebrated its centenary and wheel with two cams FMM supported the event by providing a 1917 Triumph Model H that was replacing separate cam displayed in the centre of the main hall. Placed on a flower-bedecked wheels for the inlet and stand, the motorcycle stood proud, elegantly twinning its age with that of exhaust valves, and a the show’s existence. new design of cylinder Bicycle manufacturer New Triumph Co. Ltd. was founded in 1887 by two casting. Valve head German immigrants, Siegfried Bettmann and Moritz Schulte, and a year later diameter was enlarged and the valves were spaced further apart. The began making motorcycles in Coventry, England utilising Minerva-based Model H was fitted with a Sturmey-Archer 3-speed countershaft gearbox engines. Subsequently, JAP and Fafnir engines were also used, but by 1905 operated by a hand gear-change lever. The Triumph proved reliable in Triumph was building motorcycles based entirely on its own designs. wartime conditions, despite a weakness in the front fork spring, which was Also known as ‘The Trusty’, the Model H is powered by an air-cooled prone to break on rough ground, so despatch riders would strap a leather 3kW 549cc single-cylinder engine linked to a 3-speed gearbox, and was belt around it as a precaution.