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NASH AMBASSADOR TALBOT 14/45 FORD GPA R46.95 incl VAT • December/January 2013/14 HEY PRESTO! SOUTH AFRICA’S MAGICAL FORD SIERRA XR8 HOMOLOGATION SPECIAL UNLEASHED FERRARI F40 WINDHOND Pure and cool, the last real Ferrari Kalahari Speedweek’s air-cooled show stopper SCAMP PORTER | GOODWOOD REVIVAL | JIMMY PRICE FOR BOOKINGS 0861 11 9000 proteahotels.com PROTEA HOTELS MOTORING FOR GOOD. 5% OF ACCOMMODATION BOOKINGS FOR THE MIDAS GEORGE OLD CAR SHOW 2014 WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITY. TO BOOK THIS & MANY MORE GREAT MOTORING SPECIALS VISIT proteahotels.com/motoring MIDAS GEORGE OLD CAR SHOW VENUE: PW BOTHA COLLEGE, YORK STREET | DATE: 8 - 9 FEBRUARY 2014 This year Protea Hotels are putting motoring to work for good in George, with 5% of all accommodation paid being pledged to a local home for the elderly in George. This sleepy town comes to life with the beautiful noise of purring engines once a year at one of the biggest Classic Car events in South Africa. What better way for Protea Hotels to breath back life into the local community than to give back to them from the monies raised at this event. We invite you to be our GUEST and support the local elderly and vulnerable in George with these all inclusive action packed packages. PROTEA HOTEL KING GEORGE PROTEA HOTEL OUTENIQUA Protea Hotel King George is an upmarket, centrally located hotel Protea Hotel Outeniqua is a cozy hotel located just up the road from nestled between two of the country’s top golf courses. With the the car show in York Street. 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PHDS 28516/13 CONTENTS December/January 2013/14 HIGH OCTANE THE WRONG WAY AROUND 04 Robert Coucher looks at record 66 Don Bristol’s intriguing classic car sales custom bike builds KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE TWO-WHEELED TAKE-OFF 08 SA’s leading sportscar builder 70 John Galway’s rise from motorcycles Jimmy Price to commercial airliners NEWS & EVENTS LOCALS LAP GOODWOOD 12 Latest from the classic scene 74 SA’s Team Incomplete at the Goodwood Revival LIKE AN (OILY) RAG TO A BULL 20 An original Talbot 14/45 GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR 78 The art of attracting and NASH-VILLE maintaining a sponsor 24 Nash and the Ambassador story BUMPER YEAR THE FRENCH CONNECTION 80 2013 historic motorsport role 30 Part 2 of the Scamp Porter tale of honour PURE & COOL LETTERS 34 Ferrari F40 - the greatest 90 You have your say road-going Ferrari ever GEARBOX DIE WINDHOND BLOWETH 94 Classifi ed adverts 40 Kalahari Speedweek’s show stopping Beetle BOOK REVIEWS 96 Motor books SURF & TURF 44 How a few amphibious Jeep GPA machines landed in SA HEY PRESTO! 48 Ford South Africa’s Sierra XR8 40 homologation special FOR BETTER OR WORSE 54 Jake Venter talks the how and why behind technological advances WHAT’S IN A NAME 56 Part three of our BMW fi rst car project THE BEAUTY OF SIMPLICITY 62 The wonders of the old sidevalve engine www.cpca.co.za | December/January 2013/14 | 1 Jaguar. Not manufactured, but created. Powerful, agile and instinctive in everything it does. Eight-speed electronic automatic transmission with Jaguar Sequential Shift provides velvet- smooth control: gear changes completed in just 200 milliseconds. Beautiful bi-function HID Xenon headlamps illuminate the road with power and intelligence. And every day the leather interior continues to surprise and delight. Feel it. Be moved. And ask yourself: “How alive are you?” JAGUAR CENTURION 400 West Street, Centurion Tel. Tel: 012 678 0022 www.jaguarcenturion.co.za Untitled - Page: 1 2013-02-15 09:11:42 +0000 EDITOR’S POINT OF VIEW Publisher Zig Zag Publishing Editor Stuart Grant [email protected] Sub-Editor Thora Paver Art Director Ronel van Heerden www.nineninetynine.co.za Contributors Greg Mills, Robert Coucher, Mike Monk, Dave Hastie, Gavin Foster, Oliver Hirtenfelder, Jake Venter, Roger McCleery, Jesse Adams. Advertising Sales Derek Hulse [email protected] 082 451 3899 Marketing/Subscriptions & A CLASSIC YEAR Accounts [email protected] 082 921 4583 Northern Regions Sales nd just like that 2013 talks Nash Ambassador and an original Dave Hastie [email protected] is done and dusted. Talbot sporting some much-desired 083 418 0372 It’s been a good year patina. Greg Mills catches up with for classic cars with a supercar builder extraordinaire Jimmy Subscriptions, Advertising & Editorial renewed enthusiasm Price and follows up with his second [email protected] for buying, restoring and ultimately instalment on Scamp Porter, Jody and Stuart: 082 921 4583 A using the old bangers. Robert Coucher racing Renaults. Gavin Foster tells of Fax: 086 568 0193 talks insane classic car sales for the the ingenuity of Don Bristol, who makes P.O. Box 987 year and gives us hope that we are not the most Frankenstein-like two wheeled Jukskeipark 2153 squandering our hard-earned money machinery, while Roger Gaisford sets on toys. South African weather plays sail in a Jeep. into the hands of classic owners and the If you are going away or just taking a number of events and tours continues break from the grindstone this festive to grow. 2014 is going to be just as full; season kick back, relax and enjoy you can get some idea from our news the magazine. Good news is that we section in this issue. And remember, if have managed, from 1 December, to you or your club have any preview or get C&PCA into a number of Engen, post-event press release, send it through BP and Total garages. We are still in to me at [email protected]. various CNA, Exclusive Books and Spar The publishers makes every effort to ensure this magazine’s contents are correct. All material We continue looking at unique-to- Superstores around the country but the published in Classic and Performance Car Africa South Africa models with a brutal Ford most hassle-free way to get your copy is copyright and unauthorised reproduction is forbidden. The opinion of contributors, as Sierra XR8. Although not a factory is to subscribe. And it makes a perfect published, are not necessarily the opinions held by the publishers or editors of Classic and special, the Kalahari Speedweek stocking filler. Performance Car Africa. The publishers and editors make no representations, nor do they give Windhond Beetle racer is something All the best for the festive season and any warranties, guarantees or assurances, for any goods or services advertised herein. special and shows just the spirit we here’s to another classic year in 2014. want to see from this event. Mike Monk Stuart www.cpca.co.za | December/January 2013/14 | 3 HIGH OCTANE Another year races by. And wider variety of of your average banana republic, which historic race meetings is up from last year’s US$265 million. what a year it has been for are now better This result does camouflage some the historic racing and classic attended than ever of the nuances of the collector car car world. A ‘Vintage’ year, before with drivers market where this year 57% of cars Acompeting ever harder in highly on offer sold, against 66% last year. you could surmise. More prepared equipment. But this year – This indicates that whilst the market challenging racing from 2013 – has seen a real step change in remains bullish, the best cars are Laguna Seca in California, to the ‘collector car’ arena, where prices attaining top money but not everything Goodwood and Silverstone of the best and rarest cars have gone is following. Bottom line: the best is the off the charts. The bellwether for the best and the rest remains the rest. in England, the Oldtimer collector car market is always the Some really special top-line classics Grand Prix at the Nurburgring Monterey Week, where half a dozen sold extremely well but how about in Germany and Spa auction houses offer up the world’s these: a 1969 Alfa Spider Veloce went for best automobiles. In six days, 760 cars UD$121 000; a tidy ’58 Aston Martin DB Francorchamps in Belgium. sold for US$308 million, about the GDP 2/4 soared to UD$ 440 000; and a 1961 4 | December/January 2013/14 | www.cpca.co.za Robert Coucher was born in Cape Town but has lived in London since 1988. Previously the editor of Classic Cars and the Bentley magazine, Robert started Octane magazine ten years ago and it now sells around the world to discerning motoring enthusiasts and racers. www.octane-magazine.com BEAUTY THE BEAST The Monterey Week Mercedes-Benz 190SL, probably one courses – the top 10 cars that ranged of the most unenlivening of cars ever in price from US$27.5 million for a was dominated by the screwed together in Stuttgart, made Ferrari down to a mere US$4.65 US$269 500! Oh, and a dinky Fiat million for a vintage Bentley.