Seeing as the image uploader got upset with lots of pictures, I'll do it in installments.
There is a part of my trip before I got to my Perana replica - done in a hire car. See:
John's Road trip - Part 1
05 February: Flew to Cape Town - made very welcome by Lino, and finally got my hands on my favorite car again.
06 February: Went to meet Jacques, and went for a ride in a real Perana:
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07 Feb - 10 Feb Spent a few days at the Piper Races at Killarney:
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Jacques was there too:
John and Jacques.jpg
So were Henry, Craig and Theuns:
Henry, Craig and Theuns.jpg
I ended up helping out on Eddie Perk's Lehman. That's me standing in the car hanging on to the cam chain:
Eddie Perk's Lehman Twin Cam.jpg
We were two bays away from the grandfather of Perana Capris:
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11 February: Had to resort to the bus while my car was at Speedy getting brakes sorted out and wheels balanced:
Golden Arrow.jpg
13 February: Went for a drive along the wondereful bends on Chapman's Peak Drive - but I left the camera at home.
14 February: Left Cape Town late (after a quick fix to a loose rocker) and got as far as Swellendam by the time it got dark. Went for supper, and after wondering why every other table had exactly two people it dawned on me that it was Velentine's Day:
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15 February: Left Swellendam and headed for the coast.
All was good, nice quiet roads, until about 50 km outside Mosselbaai I lifted of the gas as I closed up behind a truck and there was one hell of a gear noise.
Oh shit! Put my foot down again. Noise went away. Lift off noise came back. Foot down - quiet. So I decided to try my luck to get to Mosselbaai. Crept along at around 70 km/h.
When I got there I parked up and had a look underneath. Oil pissing out of the diff at the front. Now what? I was standing there when a helpful Mr Liebenberg stopped. I asked him where I could find a garage. He recommended Fred.
At first Fred was reluctant to take yet another job on on a Friday afternoon, but he warmed up to the idea and had a look. The diff pinion nut had fallen off. But after stripping off the UJ he was able to clean up everything, refit the seal tighten up the nut with Locktite this time, topped up the oil and we were good to go.
Great bloke who really knew his stuff. I think Fred enjoyed his little test drive:
3 Diff Repair - Mosselbaai.jpg
Dove on. Stopped at Blouwkrans Bridge - the world's highest commercial bungee jumping spot.
To get and idea of the scale look at the size of the car on the bridge. Now look at the while markers on the rope way below the bridge on the rope on the right. That is is bounce zone!
Watched a few crazy people throw themselves into 200 metres of fresh air:
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Carried on to Jeffries Bay where I stopped for the night.
Edited:Added more Cape Town stuff