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"LOVE CRAZY " - EXTREME ACTION SPECTACULAR.- A film by NEIL HETHERINGTON.- Set to hit our cinema screens in Easter ' 08. - SPONSORED BY:- KULULA. COM,- DIESEL for SUCCESSFUL LIVING and IMPERIAL CHAUFFEUR DRIVE.

A story of a boy and a girl, a little crazy and ....in love. But then something happened to change all that. When she discovered that not even her love could bring him back!

PRESS RELEASE - NELSON MANDELA BAY IN THE EASTERN CAPE IS EARMARKED AS THE NEW MECCA FOR THE FILM AND TV INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGION.

A fact finding mission from Nelson Mandela Bay is preparing to head north to Europe and the film studios of London. The delegation, headed by project leader Tony Els, are directors of a Nelson Mandela Bay joint venture company that have commenced construction of a film studio complex in the Port Elizabeth area. The eight day visit to London is the first stage of a five year plan by the Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB)company to establish a sustainable film & television industry in the Nelson Mandela Bay region. The five man team, will vist the Mecca of British film production at the Pinewood, Shepperton and Twickenham film studios. During their visit the team is to meet a number of international film and television producers: amongst them Sir Richard Attenborough, Simon McCorkindale and the film bosses of the three studios. Already McCorkindale has indicated his companies support for the project and has expressed his interest in making use of the N.M.B. complex once the building stage is complete. The studio project, already a talking point amongst London's film fraternity, will ensure that Nelson Mandela Bay and the Eastern Cape become the focal point of international recognition once the studio is up and running. Apart from its obvious attraction as a "exciting" new location for the international film world, the Nelson Mandela Bay studios will also offer tourists an added "plus" attraction when they visit the area. The first phase of studio construction, planned to begin in July this year, will be completed by the third quarter of 2008 whilist the second stage of construction will be completed by Dec. 2009. The facility will be home to four (4) sound stages, a back-lot for exterior filming, set building and storage facilities, film and lighting stores, a restaurant and a two storey production office complex. In creating this studio facility at Nelson Mandela Bay the directors of the joint venture company are confidently predicting that the income derived from its activities will add an excess of R100 million Rand in fiscal growth for the region during its first two years of activity. When the studios are completed in 2009 it is expected that this figure will increase by an additional R50 million Rand per annum. The company, already in an advanced stage of pre-production on its first locally produced film, "LOVE CRAZY", is currently negotiating the movie's release with local film distributor Nu Metro and others. It is hoped that the film will be completed in time for a December 2007 Christmas release, or by Easter '08. The Nelson Mandela Bay company has also announced its planned production of filmed product for the next three years. This includes production of a further two theatrical release films as well as three, 13 part television series. In addition the company has confirmed that all of it's film and television output will be shot in its entirety on locations in the Eastern Cape region. The company has announced too that it is dedicated to establishing a skills transfer programmme for those living in the Eastern Cape who's passion is to follow a career in film and television production. In regard to this, plans have already been drawn up and it is expected that the company's first production will employ at least twelve trainees as shadow crew members for the duration of the film shoot. An added bonus for the Nelson Mandela Bay region is that the producers of each of the planned productions will make use of local Eastern Cape labour, expertise and business enterprise as part of the filming process. With the eyes of the international film world fixed on the new studio development in Nelson Mandela Bay those involved in the project firmly believe it to be not only an incentive for the economical uplifting of the region, with its job creation and skills transfer programmes, but also an opportunity for those in authority to promote themselves and the region to a new global and economic market.

FRANSCHOEK MOTOR MUSEUM. - " A new motor museum has opened in the Cape which promises local and foreign tourists a wonderful ride down memory lane. The new Franschoek Motor Museum is situated on the scenic L'Ormarins estate near Cape Town and boasts a collection of more than 220 exotic saloon and sports cars, commercial vehicles, motorised tricycles and motorcycles, all of them in running order. Theres's even a precarious-looking penny-farthing pedal cycle. The selection began with the purchase of the collection from the now defunct Heidelberg Museum in Gauteng, established by Johan Rupert. The collection grew when a nunber of historic vehicles, which had been painstakingly assembled over the years by local enthusiast Bertie Bester, were acquired. Although the museum was buillt specifically for its purpose, with four humidified exhibition halls, it blends in with its surroundings on an estate that was granted to a French Huguenot in 1694. Each hall houses approximately 20 vehicles and the display will vary from time to time. Unlike most museums, this one is not only about the old. Indeed, one of the most eye-catching exhibits is a rare, modern Ferrari Enzo, named after that company's founder. An extravagantly expensive 12-cylinder supercar; the 6-litre Enzo makes use of F1 technology. It has a carbonfibre body and F1-style sequential-shift transmission. On the other end of the scale is a 1898 motorised Epsom tricycle and one of Henry Ford's first four wheeler A models - In between, there's a touring version of the Type 23 Bugatti that was dubbed the Brescia after taking the first four places in the Voiturette class at the 1921 Italian Grand Prix. Two of the most impressive American cars in the mix are a supercharged Auburn and its illustrious cousin, a V8 Cord 810. It was a relationship that began when Errett Cord took over the ailing Auburn company in 1924 and then employed imaginative automotive brains to design a top-of-the-range, front-wheel-drive car that he named after himself. Unfortunately superb styling and engineering failed to disquise the fact that at almost twice the price of Cadillac, it was just too expensive and the company folded in 1937. The model on display is one of the very few left in the world. Local ingenuity has not been forgotten and pristine examples of the S.A. built GSM Dart and Flamingo, as well as the slightly less successful Protea are on display - more than 300 Darts and Flamingo's were sold, many of them to overseas buyers. Single seaters are represented by the Formula Atlantic March 78-B with which Ian Schecter won the 1978 South African Racing Drivers Championship just one year before his brother Jody captured the world title. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm, and entry costs R60 per adult, R50 per pensioner and R30 per child. Visitors from registered motor clubs pay R50. Visit:- www.fmm.co.za for more information ". - Motoring Staff - Star Motoring.

LOCALLY BUILT SPECIAL VEHICLE OFF- ROADER BOASTS 484kW CORVETTE MOTOR. "They look like something out of a Mad Max movie and you wouldn't be surprised to see a sawn-off shotgun poking out of the hole where the windscreen should be. These are the purpose built racers you see competing in the Special Vehicle class of offroad racing, the weird-looking machines that have minimal bodywork covering their skeletal frames. We always wondered what it felt like to race these machines through dirt at such impossible-looking speeds, and the chance came when Motorite invited journalists for a ride ( as passengers ) in their new third-generation BAT car a few days before its debut in last week-end's Sun City 400 Race. It turned out to be a triumphant first appearance and the Motorite BAT won the event in the hands of offroading legend Alfie Cox, with the sister car of Evan Hutchison finishing fifth. After climbing through the roof of the Mad Max mobile - there are no doors - and getting strapped into a bucket seat with an industrial-strength seatbelt that seems designed for a horse, Evan fires up and starts the first lap of a tortuous offroad course at the Gerotek Test Facility. - We're off, charging away with a roar and a clould of dust. The next ten minutes are a barrage of violent g-forces, apparent defeating of the laws of physics, and general all-round mayhem. The most astonishing thing is how this machine can take bumps. The two enormous shock absorbers per wheel give a good clue but the reality still leaves you gobsmacked. When the first set of serious hills looms ahead and its evident Evan is leaving his braking far too late, realisation quickly dawns that he's in fact not going to brake at all. He just drives flat out over a set of humps that would have turned the average 4x4 into a battered wreak. Sure, it feels bumpy in the cockpit and doing this with a full stomach or a babalaas isn't recommended, but neither is it the organ-jarring seismic experience you expect. The car has a boulder-straddling ride height and more than half a metre of suspension travel, so you can basically aim at anything smaller than a Mazda Mx-5, gun the throttle, and simply cruise over it. It also means you can get away with whizzing around bumpy corners at a mad pace that would launch an ordinary SUV into a barrel roll. The grip of the tyres under cornering and braking - yes, he did brake for the tighter turns - were equally impressive. You wonder how there can be so much traction on dirt. The BAT's are locally built at a workshop near Pretoria by a talented bloke called Achim Bergmann - who is also Evan's navigator- and this third generation machine throws out some impressive numbers, not least its 600mm (frt) and 540mm (rear)suspension travel. Fuel consumption is around 50litres per 100km. The spaceframe chassis and intergrated roll cage are made of heavy duty tubular steel, and a thick Kevlar skidplate is fitted to the full length of the chassis. A dashboard-mounted 'screamer' replaces the conventional hooter. It politely warns competitors in front you wish to overtake and activates their hooters when within 30 metres. A custom made carbonfibre dash board digitally displays all the critical info. as conventional gauges dont work when they're covered in mud, and data like fuel pressure, oil pressure, fuel mixture and tempratures can be downloaded after each race and analysed. The fire-power mounted in the back aint too shabby either; a Corvette 6.7-litre V8 which they decided wasn't powerful enough in standard form so they tweaked it to produce a staggering 484kW. It sounds great, roaring like a Tyrranosaurus-Rex with a bad toothache and it accelerates like a BAT out of hell. Evan reckons the engine's the least stressed part of the whole car. The gearbox is a sequential type and Evan hooks gears by tipping it forward and backwards. This Aussie 'box is a lot cheaper than the American one they used to use, he says..... and costs "just" R150.000. That's just a fraction of the R1.2million cost of the car. - Nobody ever claimed motor racing was cheap". - Denis Droppa. Star Motoring.

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