African Muscle Cars - Forum

Lino

You are posting some really historic pictures on this site which I cannot see due to the firewall thing.

Would you mind sending them to me via E mail please.

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The Leon Booysen car was the ex Zu Bentheim car, but not the Animal ! When Zu Bentheim stayed in Windhoek he built his own version of a racing XR8. The car was apparently quite successfull up there but never ventured to the Cape. Zu Bentheim then moved to Paarl, bought the genuine Animal from Hepbur...

Hi Lino Re the original ANIMAL. Yes it went from Hepburn to Jurgen Zu Bentheim. He raced it for some years in the W P Super Saloon formula. The car went through many changes over the years. It was lowered, made wider, was fitted with the later type Sapphire nose, got a full NASCAR V8 engine from U.S...

Friend of mine just sold his one. It was an imported Falcon Ute. But sadly its gone back home to Australia. When he bought it more than a year ago the intention was to spray it blue and white as per the original Ranchero used by the Meissner racing team in 1969. He is racing a replica of the origina...

Hi Z A Perana

A friend experienced the exact same situation with his racing Escort 10 days ago.

Turned out the flexible hose from the inner fender to the strut was partly blocked.

A replacement (used) pipe was fitted and even braking was resored.

Good luck.

Hi Lino Yes the boys really celebrated after oom Koos beat up the GM V8s in his 3 litre Cortina. But the story I heard was that they smashed 2 Capri Peranas following after race celebrations. In any case it makes a very entertaining story, especially when told by oom Koos. For those who are interres...