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The VCCCK Annual Run 2011
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eMag Nov 2011
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In This Issue
Page 4.............................................................Committee Contacts Page 5.............................................................Chairman’s Desk Page 7..................................................................Editor’s Desk Page 8……………………………………………………………………….Forthcoming Events Page 9 - 13……………………………………………………………………….Outings – VCCCK Annual Run 2011 Page 14 - 16………………………………………International Article – Ferrari Page 17……………….............Sokoni Page 18 - 20….....’Hapa Kwetu’ – East African Classic Safari Rally Results Page 21………………………….Chill Out Corner Page 22…………………………Club Page
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Committee Contacts Chairman - Monte Singh
Vice Chairman - Raju Chaggar
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vicechair@vccck.org 020 – 552854 PO Box 18381 – 00500 Nairobi
Treasurer - Nitin Pandit
Membership - Brian Nicol
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Secretary - Cilla Young
Editor - James Dyson
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Merchandise - Peter Young
Events - Pavi Panesar
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Chairman’s desk: Dear Members, It was very satisfying to have such a good response to our Annual Run especially since we had shelved this event due to number of entrants dwindling a few years ago. Part of the route that we took this year had serious road works going on – a fact that the committee overlooked – and also despite having rain, all entrants managed to brave it through and ended up for a late lunch at the Polo Club in Gilgil. The Sopa Lodge was also great and my thanks go to all the entrants who took the opportunity to bring out their cars for the run. We are currently arranging CDs of the various photos and videos that were taken during the run and we’ll be giving these out to all of you who entered. Christmas is just around the corner and with it our annual year end Christmas Lunch. Numbers look good and we have a new caterer this year who has promised to surpass herself. My thanks to John and Maureen Wroe who have very kindly agreed to host us at their home in Karen. I look forward to meeting with many of you there at our Club’s last function of the year. May I wish all of you a very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year and also thank you for all the support you have given to keep the club running. Have a safe and wonderful holiday,
Monte Please be aware that the contents of this magazine reflect the opinions and experiences of members of the Vintage and Classic Car Club of Kenya and are not to be used as legal advice. Whilst we attempt to ensure the enclosed information is as reliable as possible all matters relating to motoring law, or any other legal / official matters should be pursued with the relevant legal authorities. We cannot accept any liability for loss or damage based on of the following advice as it is given in good faith only.
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Editor’s desk: Dear Members, Welcome to the November edition of this year’s magazine. In this issue there is an article on the history of Ferrari and the results of the East African Safari Classic Rally. Inside there is also a write-up and photos of the VCCCK Annual Run 2011 to Naivasha. The outing was a lot of fun and Sopa Lodge proved to be a great place to stay. The animals there (including hippos) could walk right up to the door of the rooms! I’m currently working on some CDs of the photos and videos we took during the run and we’ll be handing these out to all entrants of the annual run on Monday during the Christmas lunch. Regarding the ‘test yourself’, there is a new question this month which is not to guess the car but the price at which it was auctioned for. Please email your answers to the email address provided below and you could win a VCCCK Polo Shirt. I’d also like to thank Mr Brian Nicol for the write-up on the annual run. Content for the magazine is always appreciated. Hope to see you on Monday,
Karann karann_kalsey@yahoo.co.uk
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Forthcoming Events Save These dates… December 12th – Christmas Lunch
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Outings
After a gap of some years the Committee decide to put an overnight non-competitive run on the events calendar. The event proved more popular than was at first anticipated and eventually 12 cars participated with a record number of Classics entered.
There were Two Morris Minors, One old Dodge, One Triumph TR4, One VW Karmann Ghia, One MG and One Ford Mustang . This meant that out of 12 cars participating over half were classic cars. Here are pictures of the start of the run at Sean Garstin Motors.
At the Starting Point at Sean Garstin Motors Above and Above Right: Paul Chemngorem’s VW Karmann Ghia, Peter Young’s Morris Minor and Roger Steadman’s MG. Right: Johnny Wroe’s Dodge
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Left: Paul Chemngorem’s VW and John Sawers’s Triumph. Bottom: John Sawers’s Sparkling Triumph Engine
Top: Alexander Braunmuhl’s Morris Minor which developed spark plug problems. A new set of spark plugs soon put the Morris back on the road. Right: Richard Hooper’s Ford Mustang
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Top Left and Right: Leo all prepped and ready as we wait for the Members to arrive at the Polo Club for a late lunch. Bottom: The Polo Club where the lunch took place
From Sean Garstin’s garage on James Gichuru Rd, the run proceeded to Gilgil via Njabini and Ol Kalau. Part of this road has been re-built but some parts are still rough so the older cars had to drive carefully through the broken tarmac. This route gave us a chance to see some of the spectacular scenery along the edge of The Aberdares as we travelled close to the forest edge in many places. As usual in this area, we ran into rain nearing Ol Kalau causing two old cars to quickly put up some not too waterproof canvas roofs. This was quite an outing for some of the older cars but it was only marred by a puncture and two members nearly running out of fuel!!!! A late lunch was organised at the Gilgil Polo Club by the Club and Leo was on hand to serve some excellent food which all enjoyed in spite of the persistent rain. aaaaaaa
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Left: The cottages at the Naivasha Sopa Lodge Below Right: The swimming pool at the lodge. Bottom: One of the many giraffes and other animals roaming freely around the lodge
About 4.30 the cars started to leave for Naivasha Sopa Lodge for an overnight stop. We were all soon booked into the Lodge with no further car problems on the way except for the Triumph. Members met in the bar for drinks before dinner and all present had a very good evening. Members left for Nairobi during Sunday morning and early afternoon. All in all a very enjoyable and successful run which will certainly be repeated using a similar format.
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mmediate Past
Some of the many forms of wildlife around the lodge
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Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947. Throughout its history, Ferrari has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has had great success.
History In 1928, Enzo Ferrari formed Scuderia Ferrari, meaning Ferrari Stable and normally used to mean Team Ferrari, which was a sponsor for amateur drivers. Scuderia Ferrari, which was headquartered in Modena prepared and successfully raced various drviers in Alfa Romeo cars. But, in 1938, Alfa Romeo took its racing program in house and instead hired Enzo Ferrari to head their motor racing department. After 10 years of working on his own, Enzo Ferrari found it difficult to work for Enzo Ferrari Alfa and in 1939 he left. Due to his contract however, Enzo Ferrari was not allowed to use his name in any connection with racing for 4 years. This wasn’t so bad as WW2 prevented racing for the 4 years after that anyway. During the 4 years though, Enzo Ferrari started producing machine tools and aircraft accessories under the name Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari. In 1943, Ferrari moved from Modena to Maranello where it still remains today.
Identity The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is the Cavallino Rampante or the Prancing horse which is a black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters S F (for Scuderia Ferrari), with three stripes of green, white and red (the Italian national colors) at the top. The road cars have a rectangular badge on the hood and, optionally, the shield-shaped race logo on the sides of both front wings, close to the door. This logo originated on 17 June 1923 when Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in Ravenna where he met Count Francesco Baracca and the the Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco original Cavallino Rampante on the Baracca, an ace of the Italian air force and national hero plane of World War I, who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked Enzo to use this horse on his cars, suggesting that it would bring him good luck. The original "prancing horse" on Baracca's airplane was painted in red on a white
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The Ferrari 125S
cloud-like shape, but Ferrari chose to have the horse in black (as it had been painted as a sign of grief on Baracca's squadron planes after the pilot was killed in action) and he added a canary yellow background as this is the color of the city of Modena, his birthplace. The Ferrari horse was, from the very beginning, markedly different from the Baracca horse in most details, the most noticeable being the tail that in the original Baracca version was pointing downward.
Ferrari Road Cars and Racing History The 40s In 1945, Ferrari began work on the 12 cylinder engine that the company would be famous for and in 1947 Enzo Ferrari drove the 125 S, the first ever Ferrari, out of the factory gates. The 125 S was powered by a 1.5 L V12 and was the beginning of Ferrari’s racing cars. The 50s During the 1950s, Ferrari had legendary engineers like Lampredi and Jano on the payroll, and bodies designed by the legendary Pinin Farina. Every time a race car was improved, the road car was the beneficiary. In 1951, a Ferrari 375 brought the team its first victory - over Alfa Romeo, no less. The 357 America hit the market in 1953, as did the first in the long line of 250 GTs. Production of all Ferrari cars grew from 70 or 80 a year in 1950 to more than 300 by 1960. Enzo suffered a personal tragedy in 1956, when his son Dino, who had helped develop Ferrari's V6 engine, died of muscular dystrophy at the age of 24. 1951 Ferrari 375 F1 Car The 60s The '60s started out pretty good for Ferrari: Phil Hill won the Formula 1 championship in 1961 using a 1.5-liter V6 race car nicknamed "Dino." It was the era of the sexy, swooping 250 Testa Rossa. But things got rough for the Prancing Horse, like when Carroll Shelby brought his Cobra to European race tracks. After years of rivalry, the Texan beat the Italian in 1964. Ferrari was having financial troubles as well resulting in Enzo Ferrari considering selling the company to Ford. Ford spent millions of dollars to audit Ferrari’s assets and legal negotiations only to Phil Hill in the 1961 Ferrari 156 F1 have Ferrari cut off talks at a late stage. Henry Ford was Car enraged at this and directed his racing division to build a
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car capable of beating Ferrari on the world endurance circuit. As a result, the Ford GT40 was born in 1964 and the car managed to beat Ferrari 4 years in a row at the 24 Hour Le Mans from 1966 to 1969. In 1969, Enzo Ferrari sold part of the company to Fiat. The 70s The V6 engine made it to a production model in the Dino 246 in the early '70s. In 1972, the company built the Fiorano test circuit next to the factory. Ferrari introduced the Berlinetta Boxer flat-12 engine to the world at the 1971 Turin Motor 1985 Ferrari Testa Rossa Show in the 365 GT/4 Berlinetta Boxer, and the car hit showrooms in 1976. The next year, Carozzeria Scaglietti di Modena, Ferrari's design house, was officially incorporated into the company. Cars were churned out, by Ferrari standards, with some models being built in the thousands. But the '70s ended on an odd note with the introduction of the automatic--but still V12--400i. The 80s In 1985, when one of the most iconic of all Ferraris appeared on posters across the world: the Testa Rossa. The '80s also saw the convertible Mondial and the realization of Enzo Ferrari's dream, the F40. It was built to commemorate the company's 40th anniversary, with a carbon-fiber body, a giant wing, and Kevlar panels. The F40 was, at the time, the fastest production car in the world and the first production car to break the 200mph barrier. In 1988, Ferrari F40 however, Enzo Ferrari died, at the age of 90. Fiat's share of Ferrari rose to 90%, and son Piero became Vice President. The 90s In 1991, Luca di Montezemolo took the reins of the Prancing Horse. The supercar streak continued with the F50. The '90s also had a wider offering of smaller engines, like the V8 in the F355 series. There were still V12s to be had, of course, like the Testa Rossas that 2003 Ferrari Enzo continued to be built through the mid-90s. In 2003, Enzo Ferrari got his due, with a 230-mph supercar named after him. On the track, the hot-blooded Ferrari cars met their match in the cool German driving of Michael Schumacher, who raced Ferraris to seven F1 championships between 1994 and 2004.
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sokoni For sale
Chevrolet Pickup Year of Manufacture: 1938 Registration Number: Q 98 Price: 1,000,000 Negotiable The car is currently undergoing bodywork repairs Contact Crispin Murua for more details: 0723-323189 Please note: The car pictured above is not the one for sale.
Wanted
To advertise for any parts or cars for sale or wanted, please email the product as well as a picture to karann_kalsey@yahoo.co.uk
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‘Hapa Kwetu’ – East African Safari Classic Rally 2011
The East African Safari Classic Rally 2011 was held from November 19 to November 28, starting in Mombasa on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast. On the last day of the 2011 Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic rally the priority of Gregoire de Mevius at a muddy water splash in his all crews was to drive their cars over the Porsche 911 finishers’ ramp at Mombasa, come hell or high water. And there have been plenty of both on this incredible adventure of a rally. Out of the forty-six crews that started the rally on November 19th, forty-three crews set off from Voi for the final day of the competition. This is an impressive number of survivors on this epic event that combines endurance with high speed competition over some of the toughest terrain and through some of the toughest conditions. Last Day of the Rally On the first 27 km section in the Taita foothills Gérard Marcy and Stéphane Prévot set fastest time by only five seconds from Steven Funk and Andrew Doig in another Porsche 911, while third fastest time went to Ian Duncan and Amaar Slaatch in their Ford Capri. Waldegard set only twelfth fastest but with, twenty-four minutes in hand over Bell, it was clear that the former World Rally Champion had a safe steady finish in his sights. The Stig Blomqvist negotiates a corner in his Ford Escort RS 1800
other former World Rally Champion on the event, Stig Blomqvist, had problems on the road section when the engine cut out but, having changed the coil, the car continued.
The second section of the day was the rally’s first section in reverse with a small twist in the centre. Funk was clearly getting into his stride on this fast open section, setting quickest time by over half a minute from Duncan, while Perez, who also went well in the first section, set third fastest. Waldegard set eighth fastest time and his lead over Bell had now been diminished to twenty-two
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minutes but, with only 45 competitive kilometres and the road section back to Mombasa left to go, the Swedish crew clearly didn’t want to take any risks. However the last section was not without its problems. Second overall crew Geoff Bell and Tim Challen hit problems in their Datsun 260Z when they had two punctures in quick succession and bent a rim, losing at least ten minutes. Fortunately for Bell he had a substantial lead over third placed Blomqvist and managed to maintain his second place overall, putting him between two former World Rally Champions on the podium which is no mean feat! This meant that Waldegard’s lead extended to thirty-five minutes over Bell, whilst the gap between second placed Bell and third placed Ian Duncan in his Ford Capri Blomqvist was reduced to just under forty-one minutes. Steve Troman and Michael Nutt set fastest time on this last section in their Porsche 911 with Marcy setting second fastest and Duncan setting third fastest. This meant the top three remained the same from yesterday, as did the top ten indicating that everyone was adopting a cautious approach to ensure a safe finish. Multiple Safari competitor Marcy finished in fourth place in his Porsche 911, followed by Steve Perez and Staffan Parmander in their Datsun 260Z in fifth place. The Kick Energy rally team had battled through a fair amount of adversity from the offset and moved up an impressive 28 places from the first day when they were lying 33rd. Sixth place was taken by Steven Funk and Andrew Doig in their Porsche 911 who had put in a reliable performance throughout the rally and set their first fastest time on today’s second section.
Gregoire de Mevius’s Porsche in action
Current Kenyan Rally Champion Ian Duncan finished in seventh place alongside co-driver Amaar Slatch. The Ford Capri crew were in the top three for the first part of the rally but dropped down to 22nd place due to mechanical problems on the third day but managed to pull up to seventh place overall. Having driven a consistent rally, the Kronos Vintage Porsche 911 crew of Jean-Pierre Mondron and Nicolas Gilsoul finished in eighth place whilst John Lloyd and Adrian Cavenagh were in ninth place. A keen fan of the Safari principles of rallying, Lloyd has promised that this WILL be his last Safari but only time will tell. Making up the top ten was another Kronos Vintage Porsche 911 crew in the hands of Philippe Vandromme and Frédéric Vivier, whilst a third Kronos Vintage Porsche was eleventh in the hands of Grégoire de Mévius and Alain Guehennec. De Mévius, who is a former Production Car World Rally Champion, led the rally on the second day but broke his suspension on the fourth day and dropped down to 15th place. At the beginning of yesterday he
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had pulled up to sixth place but then dropped down to 13th after hitting a rock and then losing a wheel in a mud hole in yesterday’s final section. Bjorn and Mathias Waldegard, who were leading the event by twenty-four minutes going into the final day, and ended up winning the rally, took it cautiously in their Porsche 911, setting respectable times but by no means the fastest. Waldegard commented on the win, “I’m very glad to be here and very, very glad to have won the rally. (Co-driver) Mathias has done an absolutely brilliant job and done everything 100%.” Alastair Cavenagh’s Ford Escort Mark II
Second-placed crew Geoff Bell and Tim Challen were also taking things easy in their Datsun 260Z but still suffered two punctures in the last section. “We had two punctures only 400 metres apart from each other,” said Bell. “And we managed to bend a rim. I’m very glad to be here. We’ve been taking it easy today but maybe that was problem!” Third placed Stig Blomqvist and Ana Goni also decided not to push too hard in their Ford Escort. “It’s been a really hard rally this year,” said Blomqvist. “But that’s the way it is on the Safari.” As the cars went over the ramp at the Sarova Whitesands hotel in Mombasa there had been no change in the top three on the final day. After an impressive battle with several top crews Waldegard was the overall winner by thirty-five minutes from Bell. This is the first Porsche victory on the East African Safari Classic Rally. Third place overall went to Blomqvist who, despite hitting major problems with a broken axle on the first day, had climbed up from thirty-first position and was forty-one minutes behind Bell. Considering that the majority of the cars in the rally were Porsche 911s, the final 1-2-3 of a Porsche 911, a Datsun 260Z and a Ford Escort provided a nice diversity. Top: Bjorn and Mathias Waldegard – Winners of the 2011 East African Safari Classic Rally. Right: Bjorn and Mathias Waldegard’s Porsche 911
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Chill out Corner
An old man was eating at a truckers stop when three rough-looking bikers walked in. As they passed the old man, the first biker stubbed out his cigarette into the old man's pie, then laughed and took a seat at the counter. The second biker picked up the old man's milk and poured it onto the floor. The third biker turned over the old man's plate before joining the others at the counter. Without saying a word to the laughing bikers, the old man put his money down, got up, and left the diner. One of the bikers said to the waitress, "Not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied," Not much of a truck driver either. He just backed his Scania over three motorcycles!"
Last month’s answer: 1931 Lancia Dilambda
The car pictured is a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic and was auctioned on 5th May 2010 becoming the world’s most expensive car bought at an auction. Guess the price and stand a chance to win a VCCCK Polo Shirt. Answers can be emailed to karann_kalsey@yahoo.co.uk
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