Rare cars on SA road

[AirWolf]

UK Licence plate code - HS is for the Hampshire and Dorset area - Portsmouth - 19 is the year of first registration (2019) - and LGX is the individual 3-character identifier for the vehicle with the DVLA.

That's only 17576 combinations per place per year. How do they get around that?

 

[Moereloos]

That's only 17576 combinations per place per year. How do they get around that?

The two middle digits change every 6 months, i.e. March - August and September to February.
Next month new cars will have 69 as the two digits.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

The two middle digits change every 6 months, i.e. March - August and September to February.
Next month new cars will have 69 as the two digits.

Haha 69 LOL

 

[Neuk_]

Check that grill!

WTF are BMW thinking

 

[ArmatageShanks]

WTF are BMW thinking

Have you seen Lexus?

 

[Gtx Gaming]

WTF are BMW thinking

That 5.0D model does have 4 turbo chargers that need some cooling lol

 

[FiestaST]

Check that grill!

Damn son!

 

[Neuk_]

That 5.0D model does have 4 turbo chargers that need some cooling lol

Pfft, Bugatti (VAG) had four turbochargers a long time ago.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Pfft, Bugatti (VAG) had four turbochargers a long time ago.

And they didn't have massive holes in the front, sort of.

But if cooling was the reason they would take the air from underneath the car.

 

[Neuk_]

Have you seen Lexus?

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LOL

 

[Neuk_]

And they didn't have massive holes in the front, sort of.

But if cooling was the reason they would take the air from underneath the car.

They had 10 radiators I think it was, and obviously the engine was in a different place completely.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

They had 10 radiators I think it was, and obviously the engine was in a different place completely.

And Muuuuuuuch bigger

 

[Neuk_]

And Muuuuuuuch bigger

And generating muuuuuuuch more power which is on of the main reasons for all the radiators.

 

[Chingha]

Niiiiice

Where is it?

This was in Bloem

 

[Ivan Leon]

For (more than) nostalgia's sake - cars.co.za

For motorists accustomed to living with modern road machinery, classic car ownership – with its vagaries and fussy maintenance requirements – represents a tantalising, if fraught prospect.

Follow our columnist's emotional journey to rekindle his love affair with a car of tremendous sentimental value, while he considers the realities of what owning car of a 42-year vintage will entail...

Why the fuss?

Let’s park sentiment for a moment and focus on what makes the Chevrolet a great car as well as a classic. There’s the fact that it’s a bonafide muscle-car in the sense that in South Africa it received, via aggressive shoehorning, a 4.1-litre straight 6 into its Opel Commodore-derived body shell.

Then there’s the fact that the Chevrolet 2500/3800/4100 series was, at one point, the best-selling car in the country – and offered performance comparable (in some cases superior) to 6-cylinder BMW's and Alfa Romeos of its era.

The fact that, by today’s standards, it’s simple to run, and its commonality with several Opel models, means it shares a fair number of easily attainable parts and can still be maintained with little fuss.

Also, the fact that despite its Germanic origins (beneath that American bowtie) it represents a time before the pursuit of record-breaking Nurburgring Nordschleife lap times came at the cost of comfort and on-road compliance.

Being an executive saloon of the 70's era also means that if you can forgive the absence of creature comforts such as cruise control and aircon (we’ll get to that later) you’ll be rewarded with wooden trim, comfy seats all round and generally a luxuriously appointed cabin.

Again, the car dates from 1975, so manage your expectations accordingly.

Rear the full article at the link below:

https://www.cars.co.za/motoring_news/for-more-than-nostalgias-sake

 

[FiestaST]

Calvin Fisher’s ride.

 

[Ghoster79]

your SO works in an Alfa Dealership?

Not technically, multi franchise dealership - she works for one of the other brands.

 

[tRoN]

 

[Chingha]

Had a GT3 RS and some friends come screaming past me today.

Then spotted a 355 wif a wing, and what could be a '50s Chev

 

[Messugga]

Hmm pretty sure I see that Cayman at the gym most mornings.