The Roaring Season

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I have just heard of the passing of Basil Green, creator of the Perana cars. RIP Basil.

John Mck, You asked for videos of saloons racing of the Perana era, Couldn't find any. Here is a saloon car race on the old Kyalami circuit. Unfortunately, it is via FaceBook so I hope the link will work. Commentary in Afrikaans and English, so hold on the English will be there. https://www.facebook ...

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Other photos of racing Renaults in SA in various shapes and forms. These were mostly privateers racing after the R8 Gordinis weren't made and they became the "handbuilt" stuff without agent sponsors.

Roger, yes that was the series sponsor. The VW was raced as can be seen in the one photo. They were fairly quick because they used the 2000cc barrels from the Combis and bored them out to 4" with Chev V8 pistons. That gave them around 2500cc and sthen some were stroked to increase that even more. My ...

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I don't know why that one is upside down. Tried again but no luck.

Frans.

Hi, Jody was quick in that car but the majority races was in East London, some 1300 ks away. I saw him at Kyalami with that Renault when it was supercharged. The sidesways style must have suited him well because at the time the racing tyres was crossply and in the photo you can see how hard they ...

The Renault make was much stronger in SA than over here and because of the performance and race wins it became much strongerbecause of the old saying "win on Sunday, sell on Monday". Scamp Porter was in a perfect position working for Renault on the the Renaults and racing them. I think that meant a ...

Hi, Out of hiding again, back from Aus and 42 degrees. People living there are all going to heaven, they have hell on earth. Yes it is my Gordini in the NZ Autocar, bought it in 1980 when it was 10 years old and still have it. I can tell a lot about the Renaults, however they weren't very common in ...

Sports and GT.

Porsche 917 John Love/Richard Attwood 1970 9 Hour

Porsche 917 Jo Siffert/Kurt Ahrens 1970 9 hour

Ferrari 250LM David Piper 1966 ( hour.

Ferrari P4 Paul Hawkins

Ferrari 412 David Piper 1968.

John, For you but scarce. A few for you John, but not always the best quality. Our Saloon car champ in both the Can-am and Mustang. Unfortunately the Can-am came too late into that series where the Perana ruled the scene. The Can-am ran away from the Perana and with ease but not for long and they ...

1) Lunch is enjoyed at I think SA's racing chairman's house, Francis Tucker. I can see Jackie Ickx, Pam Scheckter, Jody 2) Scheckter, Denny Hulme. I'm sure others will complete the names. 2) Petersen, Ickx, Warr, Chapman looking worried. 3) Ken Tyrell having a word with the drivers. Plenty known ...

Jackie Stewart,

UOP Shadow,

Vittorio Brambilla,

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Jacques Laffite.

Jean-Pierre Jarrier.

Peter Revson.

Hi, I have access to multiple photos from many years ago. It was taken by various photographers and all honour to them whoever they may be. All these were taken in South Africa at the Grands Prix held there. First is Graham Hill, wife Betty, Colin Chapman. Then James Hunt and Others. You, the ...

A few more and I'm sure that the names rings a bell for all petrol heads. Ronnie Peterson http://i63.tinypic.com/j16p2s.jpg Nicky Lauda. http://i68.tinypic.com/24pw3si.jpg JP Jarier. http://i66.tinypic.com/2ic4f1h.jpg Jody Scheckter. http://i64.tinypic.com/4t90kl.jpg Jack Brabham. http://i64.tinypic ...

I have a few photos from way back when we still had Grands Prix in South Africa. I hope the ID's are correct. I will follow up on more similar as these are stolen from the WWW. Howden Ganley http://i64.tinypic.com/vf8mc.jpg Bruce. http://i63.tinypic.com/2q9fb78.jpg Hulme, Wiesel, Siffert. http://i66 ...

Hi All,

Been a member for a while but reading mostly. I race the Renault Gordini in the ERC series and my interest is long running since my childhood in South Africa.

Regards, Francois.

Will be interesting to see how the grid numbers stack up this year, especially 2kcup and ERC, where I think a lot of budget racers will take this as the last straw........btw, is there enough FHR's in the country to supply this new requirement? And if it's not in Schedule A is it legit? Between ...