CITROËN MÉHARI CORVETTE C6 Z06 LONDON TAXI R49.90 incl VAT March 2018 LANCIA DELTA INTEGRALE THE WORLD RALLY SIX-SHOOTER GIVEN THE BOOST EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES FIAT UNO TURBO VOLKSWAGEN 1600-S SUPER BUG WYNN’S 1000 | ALCONI RENAULTS | SCAMP PORTER Porsche Classic_210x276.qxp_Layout 1 2018/02/07 12:07 PM Page 1 Over 70 percent of all Porsche vehicles ever built are still on the road today. We make sure it stays that way. Porsche Centre Cape Town. As a Porsche Classic Partner, our goal is the maintenance and care of historic Porsche vehicles. With expertise on site, Porsche Centre Cape Town is dedicated to ensuring your vehicle continues to be what it has always been: 100% Porsche. Our services include: • Classic Sales • Classic Body Repair • Genuine Classic Parts CLASSIC Porsche Centre Cape Town Corner Century Avenue and Summer Greens Drive, Century City Telephone 021 555 6800 www.porschecapetown.com CONTENTS — CARS BIKES PEOPLE AFRICA — MARCH 2018 FORCE-FED CLIMBING THE VW FAMILY TREE 03 Editor’s point of view 62 Visiting Wolsfburg’s museums CLASSIC CALENDAR ENGINEERED LIKE NO OTHER 06 Upcoming events 66 COLLECTION Carbs & Coffee at the Mercseum NEWS & EVENTS 08 All the latest from the classic scene UNLOCKING COMBUSTION’S 70 MYSTERY THE HURST SHIFTER Engine designer Sir Harry Ricardo 16 The high-mile club WYNN SOME, LOSE SOME THE YOUNGTIMER 74 The Wynn’s 1000 race legacy 18 Rain stops, let’s play AN EXPERIMENT AHEAD OF HAVE WINGS, WILL FLY 80 ITS TIME? 20 Zakpeed Escort RS replica SA’s supercharged Renault R8 BUILDING DREAMS IT’LL NEVER HAPPEN NOW 22 A focus on Piazza Motorsport 84 Unheard bike racing nuggets LETTERS OVER THE HILL? NO NEVER! 24 Have your say 86 The 2018 Ford Veteran and Vintage Tour THE INNOVATION DRIVER 28 Remembering Scamp Porter CLASSIC RALLYING 101 88 Looking at how to rally in the THE TALK OF THE TOWN Classic Class 30 Fiat’s deceptive Uno Turbo GEARBOX LONDON CALLING 96 Classified adverts 36 History of the London Taxi TAKE AIM & FIRE 40 A look at the record-setting Lancia Delta Integrale 30 THE VETTING PROCESS 46 Reunited with a modern Corvette Z06 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES 52 SA’s own 1600-S Super Bug THE CAMEL ADVENTURER 56 A go-anywhere Citroën Méhari www.classiccarafrica.com | March 2018 | 1 WE’VE MOVED! VISIT US OUR NEW PREMISES AT 28 ENGWENA ROAD, SEBENZA Exotic Car Servicing & Repairs Mechanical & Cosmetic Restoration FUEL Customs has been in the motor trade Custom One-Off Projects for the last 15 years, specialising in intricate Vehicle Interior Restoration and comprehensive complete custom builds and renovations. 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FED Subscriptions & Editorial [email protected] Tel: 082 330 3446 Fax: 086 568 0193 e are often asked how men that had a hand in it, Scamp Porter. Advertising we go about selecting Mike Monk bucks the trend, focusing more [email protected] content each month and on the ‘ain’t no replacement for displacement’ whether or not we follow angle in his test of a monstrous capacity www.classiccarafrica.com any theme. C6 Chevrolet Corvette. Perhaps frightened Postnet suite 27 WThe answer to the first part is that we don’t by the fuel bill he then climbs into a 602cc Private Bag X20 select the content. You, the reader, feeds the Citroën Méhari that, named after a camel, Cresta machine. On an almost daily basis an email is not only conservative on the drink but 2194 or phone call comes in pointing us towards also conquers all forms of terrain with some a story. This is what makes the magazine so quirky French style. exceptional and words can’t describe how Tracking down vehicles specific to South grateful we are for this, so thank you. Africa is another CCA penchant, and this This phenomenon gives us the answer month those honours go to the Frankenstein- to part two. No. But that said it is uncanny like VW Beetle 1600-S Super Bug that how, when looking back at the articles, combined some of Europe’s latest details with there is some sort of common thread that older tech. While talking old and new combos, runs through the print. This month we could the London Taxi article by Sivan Goren must argue that force-fed induction is at the core. take the cake in this department. First up our iconic rally-bred cover shoot With the exciting news that a locally-built sees a turbo-charged Lancia Delta Integrale replica of the 1977 Wynn’s 1000-winning looking anything but angelic under a halo- Zakspeed Escort is set to demo in this year’s The publishers make every effort to ensure this magazine’s contents are correct. All material like spotlight. Then we hit the track in one of Goodwood Members’ Meeting, we thought it published in Classic Car Africa is copyright and the few really original Uno Turbos in South only fitting to relook at the series of endurance unauthorised reproduction is forbidden. The opinion of contributors, as published, are not Africa – these too cut a fierce reputation on racers that held that name. necessarily the opinions held by the publishers or the motorsport scene. Rounding out the We hope you enjoy, and please keep the editors of Classic Car Africa. The publishers and editors make no representations, nor do they give force-fed nature of the issue there’s a look at letters, pictures and story ideas coming. any warranties, guarantees or assurances, for any goods or services advertised herein. the South African-developed supercharged Alconi Renault and a tribute to one of the Stuart www.classiccarafrica.com | March 2018 | 3 FRANSCHHOEK MOTOR MUSEUM NEWS CRASH TEST ON SHOW In late 2017, together with Global NCAP, the AA launched the #SaferCarsForAfrica campaign, displaying the crash test results of five of SA’s most popular/compact small cars. The models tested were the base versions of the VW Polo Vivo together with the Chery QQ3, Datsun Go+, Renault Sandero and Toyota Etios, sales of which account for around 65% collectively of all the new cars sold in the country. For the assessment, each car was fitted with crash test dummies representing adults in the front seats, plus a three-year-old and an 18-month- old child in the rear seat. The assessment checks how compatible the car is with the child seat recommended by the manufacturer, as well as the protection provided in the crash test. The cars are propelled at 64km/h into a solid block covering 40% of the car’s width on the driver’s side. Separate ratings are given vehicle structure was rated as stable, offering good general protection. Using for front adult and rear child safety. the child seats recommended by Toyota, the Etios achieved a three-star rating In a positive new initiative, the #SaferCarsForAfrica campaign recently for child occupant protection. donated the Toyota Etios to the museum, along with a video and explanation The crash tests represent an important step in road safety in South Africa of the actual test. The Etios has seatbelts with pre-tensioners for both front and having an example on display brings home the message to all visitors to passengers and achieved a four-star rating for adult occupant protection. The the museum. BACK IN THE GROOVE Following FMM’s successful inaugural Slot Car Championship that ran from are held in the evenings of the September to November last year, the competition is being continued in 2018. A first Wednesday of each month pre-season practice session was held in February to discuss plans for the new and the coming year looks set to season in which, amongst other ideas, an enduro to coincide with the running be even more competitive than of Le Mans was mooted. A number of new entrants and cars have already 2017. Further good news is that appeared. The majority of the cars are DTM/LM sportscars, touring cars and FMM’s 1985 Quattroporte, formerly owned by the late Anthonij Rupert and classics, and classes are being devised to complement each type. Meetings featured in CCA in June 2016, is to be renovated. ANTIPODEAN •• RECURRING DREAM •• Last year FMM curator Wayne Harley pre-event preparation, his entry number MASERATI VISIT fulfilled a dream when he took part in the plate was missing so he had to make up In mid-February, Durban to Johannesburg Motorcycle Rally one using a blank and some black tape, FMM was visited – the DJ Run – riding the ex-Ian Brodie the bike’s amp gauge fell off and time by two senior 1934 Triumph 350 3/1 sponsored by was lost trying to find it, fuel starvation representatives Marius Malherbe.