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This car started its life back in 1983 and as an 8-year-old boy, I remember looking in amazement at this particular Porsche 944 model with its pop-up headlights and flared arches. Years down the line, I kept spotting these cars on the road. I had never kept any of the cars I owned as standard and I figured that modifying one of these Porsches would differ from the mainstream cars a lot of the guys are changing.

The origin

The rumoured $142 million 1955 Mercedes Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe has allegedly been sold by Mercedes Benz to a private collector.

The interesting fact is that even though the two Uhlenhaut Coupes were built out of the regular SLR chassis for the 1956 sports car racing season, they never saw action. This is no thanks to Mercedes pulling out from motorsports after the tragic 1955 Le Mans incident.

Pics by James Lipman.

THIS LS-SWAPPED HILBORN-INJECTED DATSUN 510 IS IN A CLASS BY ITSELF.

Marcus Fry of Redwood City, California inherited the hot-rodding bug from his dad, whose involvement in motorsports dates back to the 1960s. They were into going fast long before I was around, he says. If you didnt have a fast car back then, you didnt have a girlfriend!

Jerry, who was 30 miles north of his home in Lucas, Texas, had driven out to fix a broken air conditioner in a mobile home. The property was vast, with little more than the house, a few buildings, and the mobile home on a dirt road. The car owner, wearing bib overalls and no shirt, was dealing with chickens and an old refrigerator in the front yard. Jerry helped feed the chickens and, while repairing the A/C with a simple capacitor fix, asked if the car was for sale. The owner, skeptical but intrigued, was offered $2,500 on the spot.

Built By Karl Ebel

Karl’s mind started racing, and he knew he had to have one. He wasn’t sure exactly what he’d do with it at first, but when he finally told me he’d finished his 1927 Track T Roadster, I was beyond excited. Here’s the story of how Karl’s first Miller Track T, affectionately dubbed the Radster, came to life.

Rudi Van Der Merwe from Pretoria is the proud owner of this unique 1955 Chevy 210 4-door beast he affectionately calls Lucky Lucile. Rudi’s story of his beloved Lucky Lucile is one of passion, grit, and a love for raw power.

Ettiene is no stranger to SA HotRods. We all spent hours glued to our screens watching him build Riaan Venter’s 1941 Chevy Coupé, which was featured in Edition 10. But what many people didn’t notice was what was lurking in the background: fibreglass moulds of a 1932 Ford Pickup, something Ettiene had been quietly working on for some time.

Well, Eddie van der Walt from Bethal didn’t just imagine it—he made it a reality. Eddie isn’t your typical rodder, and this build is anything but ordinary. He’s a guy who follows his own path, proving that we don’t need to look across the pond to figure out what we should be doing.

Article and Photos by Joe van Zyl

Jeremy shared the backstory of his masterpiece on wheels, the 1939 Chevy Master Deluxe. “I’ve always wanted a '39 Chevy,” he told me. “To me, it’s the original gangster car, the kind of ride Al Capone would have cruised around in. But I never thought I’d actually find one.”