When one compares all those cars that you dreamt of as a child to their modern day counterparts, most of them seem rather inadequate to the current offerings. However, when it comes to brute strength and gut-wrenching power, nothing quite compares to the bolstering force associated with pure American muscle. The violent grunt that erupts from beneath the hood of those classic monsters when one puts the pedal to the metal is enough to render any man infatuated.

So our 3 presenters headed down to 4Play Classics in Cape Town to test drive some of these American beauties through the gorgeous Kirstenbosch Gardens pass.