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PHDS 27689/13 CONTENTS August/September 2013 ONE, NOT FIFTY SHADES OF RED THE DEVELOPMENT GAME 04 A tour of Maranello and Modena 66 Ford’s Fiesta compared with classics HIGH OCTANE FAST ON TWO & FOUR 08 Coucher, Wilbur Smith and a 70 Racer, cyclist and business man Porsche 911 Andy Terlouw NEWS & EVENTS CLASSIC WINTER MIGRATION 12 Latest from the South African 74 A trek to Cars in the Park classic scene Pietermaritzburg A MASTER STROKE TWO MINIS & THE ROOF OF AFRICA 20 BMW 2002 Alpina A4 76 Retracing the hardcore race in a pair of Minis COWLEY CARS 24 100 years of Morris CLASSIC & HISTORIC RACING 78 Motorsport action from around CAPE DISCOVERY the country 28 South Africa’s Volkswagen Caracal SIMPLY FABULOUS LUANDA OR BUST 82 Jaguar’s latest F-Type 30 Jimmy de Villiers wins in Angola WHY PUSHRODS ARE OUT SPREADING WINGS 90 Combustion chamber designs, 34 The iconic 1959 Chevrolets benefi ts and downfalls YOUTH PROJECT GEARBOX 40 Building a fi rst car – 92 Classifi ed adverts a classic BMW 2002 LETTERS THE SUPER VANS 94 Have your say 44 The Van der Linde dynasty BOOK REVIEWS PIN-UP PERFORMANCE 96 Motor Books 48 Lamborghini at 50 and the ultimate Countach A FORGOTTEN PIONEER 48 54 The story of Walter Christie FANTASTIC FULVIA CELEBRATIONS 56 Enjoying 50 years of Lancia’s front wheel drive star THE A-FRAME 62 Kawasaki powered Bimota race winner www.cpca.co.za | August/September 2013 | 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 Fred Phillips [email protected] 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, Colin Brown, Eric Ackroyd, Colin Mileman, Mannie de Villiers, Tony Seiler. Business Manager Derek Hulse [email protected] aging through old in such a manner makes it a viable, 082 451 3899 magazines recently reliable and safe car for a youngster. Marketing/Subscriptions & Accounts I realised that South This will hopefully encourage the Allison Phillips Africa has an extremely youth to learn about classics. Besides [email protected] strong motoring history, the bi-monthly magazine updates you Northern Regions Marketing Pespecially when it comes to making can follow the build on our website Dave Hastie local specials. Of course we all know www.cpca.co.za and Twitter by [email protected] 083 418 0372 the likes of the Perana, Can Am, Opel following @ClassicCarZA. If you are SuperBoss, BMW 333i and 745i but more about original power plants Subscriptions, Advertising & Editorial there are a host more mundane but in classics, see the awesome Alpina- [email protected] Stuart: 082 921 4583 equally unique attempts like the 3-Litre inspired 2002 on page 20. Fred: 082 772 1909 Ford Cortina Bakkie and Chevrolet Vehicle celebrations continue in Fax: 021 790 5183 Kommando. What about the Caracal? 2013 so Mike Monk recalls a personal PO Box 26961 Nope, I’d never heard of it either but link to 100 years of Morris and I play Hout Bay you can read about this Volkswagen with a poster perfect Lamborghini 7872 Golf-based machine in this issue and Countach as that marque reaches 50. look forward to more local cars in future Greg Mills visits the Ferrari factory, editions. We were an innovative bunch. just down the road from where the CPCA also kicks off a series this Countach was made, Gavin Foster month, which like so many South talks Bike trickery via a very special African specials, sees an engine Bimota and Roger McCleery catches up swap at the core. The car is a BMW with one of the biggest names in South 2002 which will, over time, receive a African motorsport – the van der Linde The publishers makes every effort to ensure this magazine’s number of modern additions to make family. Other profiled personalities contents are correct. All material published in Classic and Performance Car Africa is copyright and unauthorised it a suitable first car. Some might include Jimmy de Villiers and reproduction is forbidden. The opinion of contributors, as published, are not necessarily the opinions held by the argue that it is diminishing the stock Andy Terlouw. publishers or editors of Classic and Performance Car Africa. The publishers and editors make no representations, nor do of original classics in SA but on the There is also news and a look back at they give any warranties, guarantees or assurances, for any other hand the car had been consigned recent local events. Please enjoy. goods or services advertised herein. to the scrap heap already and updating Stuart www.cpca.co.za | August/September 2013 | 3 TOURING MODENA & MARANELLO ONE, NOT FIFTY SHADES OF RED Lancia-Ferrari D50 on display in the Jan Kaplicky desinged Enzo Ferrari Museum - Modena. Greg Mills has been in Bellagio, Italy for a month trying to write a book on external intervention in failed states, but he has been distracted and tells us why. constructor creates,” accumulated 16 Constructors’ and 15 Finland 46 and Italy 43. Reflecting this said Enzo Ferrari, Drivers’ Championships, including consistency, of the 740 drivers who “by transforming dominating the 2000s. have started a Grand Prix to date, there shapeless, forged Up to April 2013, Ferrari had won have been only 104 different winners, materials into big 219 GPs, compared to the second, third with the first being Dr Giuseppe Farina “Amachinery, into a harmony of sounds.” and fourth place McLaren, Williams at the 1950 British Grand Prix. Il Commendatore saw the car “as man’s and Lotus with 182, 114 and 79 wins Then again Ferrari has pretty much conquest for freedom” while racing cars respectively. In terms of titles, McLaren carried the Italian flag single-handedly, were “like sons ... when you think sons is again in second behind Ferrari with with only bit-part roles from the represent a continuation of ourselves.” eight Constructors’ and eleven Drivers’ likes of Alfa with ten victories and This thinking, such passion, Championships with the likes of Modena-based historical rival Maserati explains Ferrari’s unique longevity Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Alain with nine. Although Benetton raced and success in the otherwise fickle Prost, Ayrton Senna, Lewis Hamilton under an Italian licence for a while in world of motoring and Formula One and Mika Hakkinen. Despite a poor deference to its sartorial sponsor, it was in particular. The son of an affluent run since the mid-2000s, Williams has based in the UK throughout. Modena businessman, Ferrari’s career achieved nine Constructors’ and seven This makes the Ferrari story, one took off managing Alfa Romeo’s racing Drivers’ titles, while the original (Colin in virtual isolation by comparison to team in 1929. Although he built his Chapman) iteration of Lotus won six the critical mass of the UK motorsport first, eponymous car in 1940, the Tipo Drivers’ titles in the 1960s and 1970s industry, that much more impressive. 815, it was only until after the war that with Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jochen Based in Maranello, 18km from Ferrari’s business took off. Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Modena, just west of Bologna, Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari has been a force Andretti, along with seven Constructors’ is a force because of engineering in Formula One since the World titles and two Indy 500 victories. excellence. Money has helped of course; Championship’s inception in 1950. Its Although Ferrari fans once scorned Fiat part-ownership since 1969 tided longevity is all the more remarkable the English ‘garagistas’, epitomized it over in difficult days. But this too given there have been 136 F1 teams in by the Cosworth-Hewland ‘kit-car’ would not have been possible without a various iterations in the last 63 years.