It’s a New Year

Yup, 2012 is here and if we’re to believe the Mayan’s, we’d better make this one to remember – or not remember, we won’t be here to remember it now will we?

Anyway, a new year brings with it new things. New cars, new events and new, fresh and exciting content in the Speed and Sound Magazine. We’re looking at taking a fresh approach while still bringing you top notch content to drool over and inspire you. Read more

Total, Peugeot, Pirtek and Certina watch giveaway!!

As was mentioned a couple of issues back, the above mentioned companies are giving  away a Certina DS Podium watch. All they require from you is to come up with a design for their rally car using the picture of the Peugeot and the logos provided. The best design will win the watch and the design could possibly be used on the actual rally car too. Pretty cool huh?

 

You can mail your entries to krutch@speedandsound.co.za. (Please keep file sizes to no bigger than 3mb.)

 

The closing date for the competition is 10th. January 2012…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Show and Shine Charity Day

Big Boss Auto will be hosting a show and shine event at their shop at 55 Van Riebeek ave, Alberton north on 3 December 2011 . It will be an open day with everybody welcome to come and join in a day of socializing and relaxing while enjoying the variety of cars to feast your eyes on and best of all you can show off your own pride and joy. They will be collecting toys for charity to donate to children for Christmas .Last year they collected over 500 toys and would like to beat that this year so please join them for the day. Food and refreshments will be available. Open from 08h00.

Kyalami Track Attack – brought to you by BMW Car Club Gauteng

Kyalami racetrack will be abuzz with action on the 11th December thanks to a pretty wicked event that’s taking place. The track will be open for time trials between 09:00 and 17:00 so you’re more than welcome to pitch up with your daily drive and track it in a safe environment. The highlight of the day will be two big races featuring some of the fastest BMW track cars in SA. These guys will be on track at 12:30 and at 15:00 and will be worth watching. Read more

Experience Performance Dyno Day

For a great start to December, the guys at Experience Performance have decided to host a dyno event on the 4th December. It’s their second one and judging from the last one and also from the popularity of the shop, we’re guessing it will be a pretty decent event. They told us: “Our last dyno event was held over the Easter weekend and turned out to be bigger than we had anticipated. We ran 110 cars during the course of the day and drew a gathering of over 1000 people.  Read more

Cover Shoot Model Search

This is one for the girls! Well, also for the guys depending on how you look at it. In our December issue we would like to have a model posing with one of the feature cars, most likely the cover car. We could easily get hold of a model from a modeling agency, but we think that’s the easy way out, so we’re searching for a reader, or a reader’s girlfriend to pose with the car. We need all you willing ladies out there to mail a picture of yourself with your name and age to spyke@speedandsound.co.za so that we can post it in the Model Search Album.

There are rules to the whole affair though. We don’t want pics that are in your face and provocative, nothing smutty, we just want pics that are tasteful, tasteful, tasteful. You can pose next to a car, or anything you want that you think makes you look like a winner. With each picture submitted, we want a short bio on you and why you think you should win this competition, it doesn’t need to be intense of course, just something interesting. Entrants have to be 18 years old or older. Mails limited to 3mb max.

So what do you get for your troubles besides being featured in Speed & Sound Magazine? Well, we’ve scraped together all the spare change lying around the office and from the staff members’ cars and have a cash prize of R5000 for the winner. That’s a brilliant Christmas bonus for one lucky lady! We’re also really cool here, so the competition isn’t limited to Jo’burg ladies. Actually it’s not even limited to South African ladies. The competition is also open to ladies living in the neighbouring countries too, so if you’re from Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho or Zimbabwe, get your entries in. We’ll fly the winner into Jo’burg and arrange accommodation too as part of the prize.

Competition closes 17 October. This competition is in no way linked to facebook.com and by submitting your pictures you are agreeing to allow us to upload them and indemnify facebook.com.

Autostyle Show!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ever popular Autostyle is scheduled to take place at a new venue this year. Yup, it will now take place at the Gateway Shopping Mall but it promises to be everything and more that it has ever been. It is also taking place a little later this year due to a few logistical reasons and will take place on Sunday the 2nd of October. Trust me you don’t want to miss it!

Street Evolution & Aces Audio Colaboration!

Join the Aces Audio and Street Evolution crew on the 6th. of August 2011 for what promises to be a ripper of an event. It takes place at De Ja Vouz in Northlands Deco Park and will b e action packed.

MonsterMob Excel in The USA…

For drift fans that are stuck in a hole, oblivious to the world around them, it’ll come as news to you that popular South African drifter, Otto Graven, is currently in the USA, competing in the tough Formula Drift Championship this year.

Having carted two of his Nissan 350Z drift cars, Otto has been battling tooth and nail to cement his name as a force to be reckoned with.

Having missed only one of the four rounds, Otto is currently placed 19^th in the championship standings and is the second highest rookie, just behind Walker Wilkerson, who he is aiming to beat in order to claim the Rookie Of The Year award.

The fourth and most recent round of the Formula Drift Championship took place at The Wall in New Jersey where Otto qualified 13^thand defeated Matt Waldin to secure a spot in the Top 16. It was here that he was eliminated by Conrad Grunewald who went on to win the round.

Otto’s next challenge is at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Washington on the 22 and 23 July. Follow his progress by going towww.formulad.com or www.justin.tv for live streaming of the event.

* pictures courtesy of CBeN2 Photography and Monstermob.

Zoopedup Bday Bash

This industry is BOOMING !!!

On another cold rainy day, cars poured into the parking lot at Cantina Tequila in Honeydew. The day started with a few delays, but when we got going, we really got going!

EMMA ran SQ & ESQL & Zooped-up ran SPL, BB, show & shine and glow-in-the-dark.

The competition was very tough, with a lot of really good cars and a lot of new entries.

Judging was tough enough as it is with all the vehicles to get through and the weather made it tougher.

ESQL is such a hit! Even though it’s only one “introductory” class at the moment, competitors seem to really enjoy the format. I’m sure it will develop into a full league!

We really want to thank everyone for taking the time and having the courage to compete.

It’s all you guys that make it possible! I hope you will all continue to attend and enjoy our events in the future as we really enjoy having you there & seeing you grow!!

All teams, clubs, shop owners and installers are officially challenged to show EMMA what you’re made of and what you can do!  From July there will be a special award for the team with the most competitors entering into the competition and an award for the team with the most trophy takers! Who’s got what it takes?

Keep your eyes on the Facebook page and Speed and sound forum for details of upcoming events… See you out there !

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