GWR’s Mustang Doorslammer = Sex on slicks!

Gavin Wilkins at GWR is well-known for his insanely strong Ford Sierra drag car, among other street conversions of course.  His monster Sierra has obliterated the drag strip on a time of 8.4-second at 262km/h - a serious time for a V8 running nitrous and no force-fed induction.  Even though the Sierra is mint and can easily win a concourse event, Gavin decided it was time for a change and so he set about  the simple conversion of fitting a new shape Mustang body.  Well that was the theory - Gavin had to rebuild the entire car and this is the end result.  Spyke and Wally headed round to his Alrode workshop to snap some pics for y’all…How friggin hot is this Mustang?!  We can’t wait to see it’s debut on the drag strip, but from the looks of things it seems a low 8-second pass is on the cards - hell, who knows, maybe there’s a 7-second pass somewhere in this monster Mustang’s future!

Group N replica racer @ Zwartkops

Yup, it’s here, Chris Davison’s awesome Group N replica Superboss.  We’ve been following the build of this car since it started, and as with everybody else who’s known about it, we’ve been very impressed.  This car started out as a scrapper and has ended up being one of the most talked about Opels in a very long time.  It even attracted the attention of the man who raced the original one in the early 90s, Mike Briggs.  Chris embarked on a ground up restoration of the tired superboss, and it now rivals his white one that we used for our Cult Car section of the Magazine.  The car makes great power and handles like no other front wheel drive I’ve been in, and no, it’s not just for show - the car will be seen in the Superhatch series for the 2010 season.  It doesn’t just look like a racecar, it IS a racecar!  Wally and myself found that out for ourselves during the shoot at Zwartkops when Chris took us for a few laps at pace.  I think there’s still combined fecal matter on the passenger seat…

335i Droptop at Stoneridge

So Rodrigo’s not a stranger, he had the LS-doored Honda S2000 we featured on the cover a while back.  That means he definately knows how to make a pretty car.  He’s since moved on from the S2K and was driving a Mk5 GTi for a bit, but he finally has his new ride all sorted out.  Myself and Warren headed out to Stoneridge Mall in Kempton to snap this car at Q-ba.  We decided a night shoot would be great for this car and yeah, we were right.  We arrived and the owner of Q-ba decided to take the night off and then ignore our phone calls but luckily the manager convinced centre management to let us snap pics in the forecourt and basement parking.

Rodrigo opted for a BMW this time, a 335i and he made sure he could still have his hair blowing in the wind by getting a droptop.  The 335i is already a good looking car, but with a few tasteful styling cues it becomes a tarmac sex symbol.  Rod’s car is now a two-tone affair and from a distance it can be confused with an Audi S5.  It’s running with all the good mods a 335i should, which means it’s fast, it kills M3 and most other cars he comes across.  It’s definitely a unique look, but my favourtite part is the rimmage - take a look at those puppies!  YES PLEASE!

SNS at MPH ‘10

Yeah, we were there with a huge kick-ass Rockford Fosgate trailer pumping some wicked tunes.  Kris Budnik’s E46 M3 that was featured on the cover of Issue 101 was on dsplay as was a wicked ICE’d out Series 4 RX-7 and an airbrished, HellaFlush carbon fibre-bodied Opoel Corsa.  At the back of the stand we had A.S.E’s insane Subaru WRX STi hatch as well as a sweeeeeet new Skyline GTR in a fresh light metallic blue paint, a complete change from the factory colours on offer.  Read more

Low down and dirty with the Monstermob

Just before the start of the October round of The Rock club drifting challenge, we met up with Otto Graven and the Monstermob R33 twins to get the low down on what goes on in Kimberly.

The interview with Otto is in Issue 98 (on shelves now) while the epic R33 Skyline twins will feature in one of our upcoming issues.

I was once again the brave (read: insane) sod who hung out the window while Otto and Ronnie drifted in tandem around The Rock. I was bruised for days in places I didn’t know I had. When you don’t have a seatbelt or harness to hold you in place, hanging out the window of a stripped out drift car is a challenge.

Here’s some teaser pics.

Cult Car Shoot

Here’s a sneak peek at our Cult Car for the next issue we’re working on.

It’s the revered Volvo 850 T5-R that enjoyed celebrated success in the BTCC. It punches out some healthy figures for a 14 year old street car.

Read up about it in Issue 99.

In the mean time you get to stare at the back of Wally’s head as it cooks in the sweltering sun.

Speed and Sound Desert Warfare

A couple of the die hard Speed and Sound drag racers recently headed across our border for some desert warfare in Namibia. Their weapons of choice you ask? Nothing other than their trusty drag cars. As usual they were in very high spirits and had an awesome time amongst the dunes.

Legendary!

The Jouberts are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the race track! They have been known to build some of the quickest cars in the land for both straight line applications as well as for the track. What’s more, they can pilot as well. we hooked up with Charl Joubert and his crew at Zwartkops Raceway for a day on the track with two of his Lotus Elise’s,( One a track car and the other a street car). Damn good day I must say!

Matte Black Italian!

I spotted this matte black integrale some time ago and have trying to get hold of the owner for quite some time. Out of the blue, Zak our sales guy got hold of him for advertising and hooked us up with his details. We decided Kyalami would be the ideal spot for a couple of stills and some motion shots. This was the outcome.

Sting in the Tail!

I trekked all the way to the land of Curry and Rice to shoot this very bright Mk5 GTi. This is my favourite shoot to date and the fact that the car is super hot and owned by a very good friend of mine had very little to do with the final product of the shots. Zubair, the owner who is mad about anything VAG has lived his childhood dream by having his car featured in a national publication.

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