


With forty cars parked bumper-to-bumper, the theatrics begin. Inside South Korea's Illegal Underground Car Sceneīy midnight, the denizens of the Queen’s Beach parking lot have reconvened at a Shell station on Sable Road.This Warehouse in South Africa Hides a Car Heaven.“robot racing”) along Strandfontein Road, Cape Town has more than thirty hotspots that fire up on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. From blazing through traffic on the N1 motorway to drag racing (a.k.a. “There is a massive car culture here,” says Junaid Hamid, a former street racer turned private driving instructor. Because for many of these car owners, weekends in Cape Town are about racing. Yet as the last light fades, the mood takes a turn.

Waves crash onto the rocks, water stretches out endlessly, and a pink-orange sunset spreads over the horizon like neon cake frosting. Who could blame them? Here-the virtual bottom of the world-the view is breathtaking. On this speck of Cape Town’s coastline, the car owners have come for their Sunday “cool-down.” It’s a weekly tradition where locals smoke hookahs, puff joints, and sip beers. Alex Tehraniīut nobody drives faster than a crawl. A speed and tire shop owner named Nur in Hanover Park, southeast of downtown Cape Town.
