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1956 Land Rover Series I (short wheelbase)

You have to double-clutch each gear, pump the brakes every time you want to stop and need serious strength to handle the steering wheel, but when Leo du Plessis of Stellenbosch gets into his yellow...

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1961 Unimog 411

Where a baboon needs a walking stick, boffins say, a Unimog can drive. The baboons may not be too worried about Eniel Viljoen from Villiersdorp’s restored 1961 model, but his handiwork has recently...

FIRST-CLASS. Eniel Viljoen’s restored 1961 Unimog was awarded the best vehicle title at the national Veteran Tractor and Engine Show in Cradock in November last year.

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1972 Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer 710M

Willem de Lange’s 1972 Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer 710M turns heads everywhere. And people always have the same reaction …

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1973 Chevrolet C20 4x4

It may be a relic from the days when bell-bottoms were the in thing, but Pierre Strauss from Sasolburg isn’t planning to trade in his sprightly Chev C20 for something younger.

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1975 Land Cruiser FJ43

Guy Boardman from Durban reckons there’s nothing to beat an old Land Cruiser in the bush (well, that’s apart from an old Willy’s Jeep of course).

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1976 Jeep Wagoneer

From the moment Erich Herbst of Johannesburg saw his father-in-law’s Jeep Wagoneer, he tried to buy it from him. After three years, he finally succeeded and Erich was so excited all he wanted to do...