Rare cars on SA road

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Chingha

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Oi, back to rare stuffs.

Never seen one of these IRL before.

2 wheel drive, Russian side car. Ural motorbike
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Ivan Leon

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2 convertibles spotted on my way home from Beacon Bay to Gonubie earlier this morning (pics cropped from screenshots off my dashcam):

Triumph TR6

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Renault Megane

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Ivan Leon

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Without reading your post, I thought these were screenshots from a 70s TV show like CHIPS or something...

Ha Ha!- I had to zoom in quite a lot to get them in the frame as I was going in the opposite direction to them, and I used MS Paint to crop the screenshots. My bad!
 

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Restoration of a forgotten icon: the SA-only built BMW 530 MLE

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The restoration of the SA-only built BMW 530 Motorsport Limited Edition (MLE) is now at an advanced stage. In April this year, the revival process of the legendary classic car began.

The car was stripped down from its rusty condition, cleaned and received its first coat of paintwork. A number of new and old parts were neatly laid out waiting to be assembled into various parts of the car.

At the beginning of July 2019, car number 100 was painted to its original Chamonix White metallic paint. Friday, 12 July saw another milestone of the restoration being reached – the body shell mounted onto the suspension of the car.

The bare engine was also started for the first time after more than 20 years by Mr Tim Abbott, CEO of BMW Group South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Mr William Mokwape, a retired former employee of BMW Group Plant Rosslyn who built the car in 1976. The engine will soon be installed into the vehicle.

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Read the full article at the link below:

https://www.wheels24.co.za/News/Cla...n-icon-the-sa-only-built-bmw-530-mle-20190715
 
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