TIME TRAVELLER
Imagine travelling up to Johannesburg from Cape Town in the early 1960s in the family Ford Prefect, maxing out at the vehicle’s top cruising speed of around 100 km/h. Suddenly, without warning, a petrol-green projectile slams past on the narrow two-way road at 220 km/h and the shock wave nearly spins the little Ford into the Karoo desert shrubbery.
The driver of the green car was not showing off. He was driving close to flat-out to try and secure his place on the starting grid for the second Kyalami 9 Hour Endurance Race. The car, a Ferrari 250 GTO, had docked in Cape Town just two days before the event; David Piper and his mechanic, Fairfax Dunn, were hightailing it to the track to beat the scrutineering deadline for the race and get in some practice.
The Ferrari 250 GTO is generally acknowledged as the most collectable and desirable of all Ferraris made since 1948.
