3 days ago
Top cars and moments from this year's Cars in the Park
Around the track there was a feast of cars. Most notable were the dozens of Datsun 1200 and Nissan 1400 pick-ups built in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.
At the other end of the scale were the special invites section. Stand-out cars were a 1937 Cord 812 owned by Sakkie van der Walt, a 1940 Lincoln V12 and a 1939 Chevrolet Business Coupe in pristine paintwork. Tom Linley's Velocette trio of motorcycles, ranging from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, were eye-catchers.
Another interesting special invite was the DKW F7, a cute little sports car from the late 1930s with fabric bodywork that made it extremely light and a twin-cylinder two-stroke motor owned by Corne Fourie. There were the usual oddballs, such as late 1930s Dodge sedan mounted on a Mitsubishi bakkie chassis and a Mad Max replica based on a trashed Sierra body, with a realistic submachine gun on the bonnet.
