Automotive
SA Hot Rods
Modest Mortimer
It’s really difficult to write an article about Geoff Mortimer. In a motorsport career spanning more than 6 decades, Geoff has excelled at everything from racing and rallying with distinction to building winning racecars and managing the teams that race them.
7 min |
Edition 89
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Fresh Classic
Wynand and Alfonso van der Westhuizen from Classic Restoration have been in the sandblasting industry for years.
2 min |
Edition 89
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Big Red Behind-The-Scenes
R.J. Gottlieb is the only man who has ever driven Big Red with one exception, the car’s creator Bill Osborne.
10 min |
Edition 89
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Glory Days
Walter and his crew at Coastal Customs in Mossel Bay were approached by Vernon Kemp, who owns a 1954 Chevrolet Thrift Master project that was taken away from a shop in Kempton, Gauteng after he was not happy with the paint job that they had done.
2 min |
Edition 89
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Gymkhana Grid 2017 Heads To South Africa
Gymkhana Grid 2017 Heads To South Africa
1 min |
Edition 81
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Poor Man's Belair
3 -SPEED AUTO
2 min |
Edition 81
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New Sick Customs Shop
New Sick Customs Shop
1 min |
Edition 81
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Dream GT40
Dream CT40
2 min |
Edition 81
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Mean Machine
1956 FORD F-100 “THE GREEN MACHINE"
3 min |
Edition 81
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Lady & The Beast
Lady & The Beast
1 min |
Edition 84
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Chevy
Chevy
1 min |
Edition 84
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Hill Climb For Hospice
Hill Climb For Hospice
3 min |
Edition 90
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Stefan's Auto Art
Stefan's Auto Art
3 min |
Edition 90
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Yellow - Bellied Beast
Yellow - Bellied Beast
2 min |
Edition 90
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American Made
American Made
1 min |
Edition 90
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Moonshot
Moonshot
5 min |
Edition 90
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How To Install Holley Sniper EFI
How To Install Holley Sniper EFI
7 min |
Edition 90
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Sticky Situations & How To Cope With Them
Sticky Situations & How To Cope With Them
3 min |
Edition 90
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Work In Progress
Work In Progress
1 min |
Edition 90
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Gavin Wilkins
Our local SA motorsport Legends are not only created from the long circuit.. we have our share of Legends in every category of motorsport. One of our best-known drag racing Legends has to be Gavin Wilkins, famous for his 7 second Mustang!
5 min |
Edition 91
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Stencil Worx
Steve Erwin is a Cape Town based artist who specializes in painting classic and contemporary cars and bikes using a combination of mediums; stencil, air-brush, acrylics, water-colours, pens and pencils. He is a self-taught fine artist however is also a qualified interior designer with a B-tech from UJ specialising in 3D renderings.
3 min |
Edition 91
SA Hot Rods
T Bucket
In last month’s edition of our magazine, we met up with Jan Troskie, a retired airplane pilot who has a passion for mechanical and aviation designs and is also renowned for building the Ravin 500 airplane from scratch at his workshop in Pretoria.
2 min |
Edition 91
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Royal Purple Synthetic Oil
Power Performance Lubricants is a privately owned South African company that has been in business since 2016 and is owned by Johan van der Linde and Mario Vingos. It all started off when Johan was looking for a high-performance lubricant for the Millennium 7 project cars they build. After months of research they selected Royal Purple and immediately started testing.
5 min |
Edition 91
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Street Cred
JP Jonker has always had an avid interest in cars but it was when he turned 16 that his interest in Hot Rods started. Some new neighbours had moved in next door and they were car people.
5 min |
Edition 98
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Charged
Kobus and Sons Classic Cars advert in the magazine has become a firm favourite amongst all of our readers. We hear very often that it is the first ad many of our readers check before looking at any of the others.
2 min |
Edition 98
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Elemental
In the December/January edition of the magazine we spoke about the Legend Promotion – a 1957 Chevy Apache that was built as a giveaway car to be won by one lucky person.
4 min |
Edition 98
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Grandeur
The Grand National Roadster Show is now in its 70th year, and has the distinction of being the longest running indoor car show in the world.
3 min |
Edition 98
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Cars!
The 23rd George Old Car Show, proudly driven by Oakhurst Insurance, was held on the 9th and 10th of February in the heart of the majestic Garden Route.
1 min |
Edition 98
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Roco-Mamas #ROCKMYSTREET
The ethos of RocoMamas “we’re not normal” is more than just a tagline, it’s how we approach everything we do.
3 min |
Edition 99
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The Waiting Game
My 2019 motorsport season has started with more of a whimper than a bang… the first major event on my team calendar is the Jaguar Simola Hill Climb in May!
2 min |