Star quality at Classic Car Show - Independent Online
Cape Town - If there was one word that defined the 2015 Classic Car Show at Timour Hall in Plumstead it was presence. As the annual show, held on the third weekend in January each year, has gained in prestige over the past three decades, so the stature of the cars and motorcycles that arrive each year to be shown off by their owners has risen. Among several hundred car entries - and nearly as many motorcycles - over two days, the 2015 show boasted a number of superb vintage machines that, in terms of sheer attitude, could have the shown the American muscle-cars of the 1960s a thing or two. Among them was one of the very last Rolls-Royce Silver Wraiths, ordered by the City Council of Durban in 1958 as a ‘company car’ for the mayor – a position it held until 1971 – at a cost of £5800, slightly more than half of which went to pay for... This car was one of just 32 built that year by what was later to become the Jaguar company, powered by a 2663cc Standard straight six with a special overhead-valve cylinder head by legendary tuner Harry Weslake that boosted its power to a... The Velo was driven at up to 30km/h by a 1045cc flat single that produced 2. 2kW at 700rpm. Source: www.iol.co.za
