Take a pick

a couple of Chevy Bel-Airs from the classic car show.what's your flavour?

Gang green goblin

Words  :  Tebogo Mashale

Images: Toby Strange

One of the things I look forward to when attending the Classic cars meet Japan vs Germany car show which is held twice in the year, is that someone will bring out a ride that will literally shut down the entire show and draw a lot of the crowds’ attention to it. Back in July, an 850 horsepower three tone matte ‘69 Dodge Challenger (which the owner asked me not to publish) came for a brief moment, dropped jaws, garnered attention from major car publication and left without committing to a feature. Four months later, as I navigated through the multitudinous cars of different eras and customization cultures, I came across a popular exhibitor at the Show Pablo, the founder of Nancefield auto paints. Year in year out he brings his tantalizing yellow Gallardo to the show along with a few of his flagship rides to showcase N-A-P’s outstanding aesthetics work which range from Mark 1s golfs and Corollas. In the last classic car show for 2014 ,he brought out his very own Hulk in a form of a Nissan Skyline GTR which his Nancefield paints team painted in a mint green colour shade with so much depth ,you’d be tempted to run your tongue all over it (gross but true).

After chatting about his latest addition to his fleet, which aside from the Lambo comprises of a Mercedes Vito and an Aston Martin, He made me aware of the performance improvements to his ride which included bigger turbos, Custom exhaust, and ECU tuning and custom transmission. All these additions result in a whopping 800 horsepower power plant that sends the green goblin past Porsches Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Pablo doesn’t plan to stop there, in 2015 the plan is two raise the bar by another 200 ponies. At this stage, keep your eyes wide open if you’re ever in the Lenasia area but don’t blink, you might miss it.

Japanese grand prix after party

Images and words:Toby Mashale

McLaren South Africa  ,a division of Daytona group partnered with formula 1 sponsor ,french champagne maker ,GH MuMM to host a far-east themed celebration of Lewis Hamilton's victory at the Japanese grand Prix in October.They even brought out one of the most talked about hyper cars of 2014 ,the McLaren P1 ,a successor of their legendary pride and joy the F1 to cement an already impressive line up of McLarens including the 12c ,12c spider ,650s and the 650s GT.Here's a visual strip of what went down at Daytona group's Sandton based headquarters.

Grant exiting the McLaren 650s GT

Some Japanese couture

Lala Hiriyama

Maps Maponyane with the 650s

The infamous 903 horsepower hybrid McLaren P1

Legendary race car driver and advanced driving instructor Gugulethu Zulu

Anther shot of the 650s

Family matters

Sinazo Yolwa

Spirit of ecstasy

Gerri pops champagne like a boss lady.

Car of the day:1956 Chevy Bel-Air

Pick for the day

Like a well mannered woman ,this G6 squats properly on its 20 inch Giovanna Monzas.

Car of the day

Custom rat rod

Pic of the day:

McLaren 12C