“Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, your sons and daughters are beyond your command.” – Bob Dylan 1960’s By the mid 1960s World War II babies had grown up. They knew little about depression and war. They wanted to do their own thing, so a new […]
A great day for the Legends! Every competitor in our series put on a fantastic performance, which was attended by the public and international guests. It was a great honour to have David and Liz Piper, and Mike Knight join us. David was, in fact, the pioneer of the Springbok Series in the sixties and […]
1939-2023 Racing Ace, Engineer, and Entrepreneur Then icon for cars that he raced, and on track for demo Mustang (Briand Rowlings/Oliver Broome) Chev Can-AM – The Little Chev (Rudi de Vos) Formula Atlantic Chevron (Colin Frost) Alfa GT 202 (TAR – John10/ Arnold Chatz) Lotus Cortina (Carel Pienaar/Ben vd Westhuizen) […]
David Piper/Tony Magg’s Ferrari GTO 1963 Nine Hours. This is a 45-minute endurance race with a 3-minute compulsory pitstop, two-driver race, reminiscent of the great South African 9 Hours of the late 1950s featuring racing sports and GT cars. Heading the 25-car field for this event will be the Shelby Daytonas of James Temple and […]
The spectacular Legends V8s of the 1960s generation go, go, go with 4 on the floor and the liberation of speed. There should be 20 competitors in this event with entries from Holland – “The Dutch Safari” legendary by Michiel Campagne in his fearsome 7-liter Galaxie. Entries from the UK include Mustangs and Camaros on […]
Twenty of these pre-1966 Formula One cars return to South Africa, most with South African history, such as the John Love Cooper, which came so very close to winning the SA Formula One World Championship Grand Prix at Kyalami on 2nd January 1967—an unbelievable feat for South Africans. It opened the way for the 3 […]