CAR Magazine features
Posted: Sun 24 Jul 2016, 15:05
Lately I've spotted old single issues of CAR Magazine being sold off on Gumtree, and it's interesting to note some of the featured articles.
I have a a book, titled "Cranked Up, confessions of a petrolhead", by Hannes Oosthuizen previously an editor at CAR Magazine, and included in the book, is a database of all the road tests done by CAR Magazine between 1957 and 2010. But as far as I know there is no database/reference, other than the magazine itself, of other types of features published in the magazine on the different models of cars.
For instance, June 1965, some interesting road tests - Basil Green twin-cam Anglia 1800, Ford Meissner Corsair (Wonder what happened to these cars? Does anyone know of cars with these conversions in a collection in SA?)
December 1972
http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-car-accessor ... 0003940809
New Products - Meissner Lubricants (any relation to Willie Meissner?)
New Models - Ford Granada 2500 and 3000 range(I never new there was a 2500cc Granada available?)
New Models - Alfa Romeo 1600 Rallye and GT 1600 coupe(Were the Guilia 1600 Rallye, a SA only special?)
January 1983
http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-car-accessor ... 0003940809
Road Test - Ford Capri 2,8 fuel injection (were evaluated by Ford's Product Engineering Division in PE)
BMW 535i with sports gearbox(SA's quickest 4-door car, at the time)
Ford Escort XR3 Perana (quicker than a Cortina XR6)
I have a a book, titled "Cranked Up, confessions of a petrolhead", by Hannes Oosthuizen previously an editor at CAR Magazine, and included in the book, is a database of all the road tests done by CAR Magazine between 1957 and 2010. But as far as I know there is no database/reference, other than the magazine itself, of other types of features published in the magazine on the different models of cars.
For instance, June 1965, some interesting road tests - Basil Green twin-cam Anglia 1800, Ford Meissner Corsair (Wonder what happened to these cars? Does anyone know of cars with these conversions in a collection in SA?)
December 1972
http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-car-accessor ... 0003940809
New Products - Meissner Lubricants (any relation to Willie Meissner?)
New Models - Ford Granada 2500 and 3000 range(I never new there was a 2500cc Granada available?)
New Models - Alfa Romeo 1600 Rallye and GT 1600 coupe(Were the Guilia 1600 Rallye, a SA only special?)
January 1983
http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-car-accessor ... 0003940809
Road Test - Ford Capri 2,8 fuel injection (were evaluated by Ford's Product Engineering Division in PE)
BMW 535i with sports gearbox(SA's quickest 4-door car, at the time)
Ford Escort XR3 Perana (quicker than a Cortina XR6)