It CAN reliably be said that the Cape Hell Drivers at the Goodwood Showgrounds were among the chief instigators of the wilder side of the local petrolkop scene.
With names like “Popeye” King, Deon de Waal, Johnny Clifton and Jack Holloway, many of the old-school folk will tell you “those were the days”.
Stock car racing at its finest, these guys brought revved-up methanol monsters to the track to launch the club in 1964, and the crowds would go bos as the drivers hurtled around the track. Local legends were made in those days.
The Cape Hell Drivers, now in its 55th year and the oldest oval-track club in South Africa, is going strong as they are about the host their biggest event ever – the final leg of the…
