There the unhappy duo stood, still, silent, spent, in the left lane of the N3 Umhlanga to Durban. A red VW Golf 6 GTI and its arch-rival from Ford, a bright orange Ford Focus ST. Not only was the smok...
A late in life shift in focus from lawyer to self-taught journalist in the making has been a bi-polar struggle. That I’m here at all means that my car-crazy sub-conscious wins the day. For this rookie it’s a belated kick-off, and being legally-versed can’t hurt my progress. There’s a welcome touch of the back to the future here, which brings a bounce to my step, one which I could never have anticipated.
There the unhappy duo stood, still, silent, spent, in the left lane of the N3 Umhlanga to Durban. A red VW Golf 6 GTI and its arch-rival from Ford, a bright orange Ford Focus ST. Not only was the smok...
I don’t think I’d ever done it before, and certainly never since. Sat in the car, that is, and told the attendant to ‘fill it up’. No grapevine stories for me on getting a dose of the wrong fu...
The magic slowly goes out of it, like that candle in the wind desperately clinging onto the wick. I’m talking about the quality windshield time of the long distance road, time spent on the contempla...
Ushered to the front of the long, long queue of people waiting to sit the mandatory renewal of your licence eye-test were four ladies of a certain age. Mutterings of ‘unfair, unfair’ were inevitab...
We’re shopping in this household. But only of the window kind at this stage, and Toyota has itself to blame. We’re not about to step inside with any real intent yet. A resounding own goal for ...
Recently I tuned in to our local radio station here in Durban which threw out a limited choice ‘answer a, b, or c’ census on the merits of charging with murder motorists who through their actions ...
There are very few prospective owners who approach their new wheels purchase without some emotion in the mix. We motoring nuts like to jibe, of course, and I for one can’t help myself. To prove the ...
Let’s ponder on the Great Levellers. The obvious Grim Reaper who’s just picked your name out of the hat. The equally obvious substance addictions that make a slave of your mind and then your body....
What do you do when the very same classic Mercedes Benz LHD W107 280SL you last drove in the late ’80s and haven’t seen since comes up for sale some 20 years later? You buy it, of course, over...
In Part 1 under this heading, I spoke of control “surfaces” and my views as to whether or not the manual gearbox qualified. Whether you agree or not you’ll still be needing to accessoris...
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