Road to ILamuna Update 1 | So we bought an old racing Beetle

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It was the morning of September 16 when I fielded a WhatsApp call from my mate and air-cooled Porsche restorer, Wernher Hartzenberg, says the writer.

Now in case you don't know what the hell this is the inaugural 24 hours of ILamuna is an endurance race based on the famous 24 hours of Le Mans. Except instead of piloting cutting-edge prototypes and exotic GT sports cars, you are required to turn up at Red Star Raceway on October 30 in a ratty old lemon bought and track-prepped for R50,000 or less.

Enter the baby-blue 1965 Volkswagen Beetle you see here. I'll do a more in-depth story about this bug's checkered past at a later stage but for now just know that for the past 30 years it's been raced on tracks around the country by a gentleman named Harry Lombard. *R60,000 is a fair chunk of change in anybody's book, but split among four drivers , it's kind of doable. So after wrangling ex-Star Motoring scribeand another chap named Wihan Tiedt into the fray, well, the piggy banks were pillaged and the transfer made. Team Short-Shifters was go!

 

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