Back in 1969, Geoff Clark had owned his brand-new Jaguar E-Type roadster for a mere three months before it was rear-ended by a dozy van driver in the city of Newcastle, in the north of England. He says the van driver had expected him to gun it away from a set of...
Pierino Scalco is a retired panel beater who now spends his days re-creating many of the cars that he dreamed about as a young boy. And in his late teens, one of the most formative moments of his young life, was working in the pits at Kyalami, assisting the famous...
The opportunity to buy an inlet manifold for a 1953 Jaguar C-Type led to Vaal-based Jaguar restorer Kobus van Wyk embarking on a two-and-a-half year project to build an exacting replica of one of the most significant racing Jaguars of all time. “I was visiting a...
THE BEST OF THE HEALEYS Story by: Stuart Johnston, pics by Jay Groat Thys Venter says that he can recognise the sound of an approaching Austin Healey 3000 from five blocks away. “The engine note is unique, a deep six-cylinder burble, and that is just one of the things...
