Christmas ideas for petrolheads

WITH just a few days to go before Christmas and you still don’t know what to get for that car loving family member.

Well, don’t stress because the motoring journalists on the Autodealer SA team got together to brainstorm some ideas that could make your last minute shopping for that petrolhead in

the family as easy as activating launch control in an Audi RS3…

Car care products are without doubt a must as you never know when a photo opportunity may arise.

Chances are that a bottle of car shampoo or indeed polish is presently in your petrolhead’s car or garage at this very moment.

The best thing to do is to find out the name of the products and purchase the same because these were most probably bought for a reason.

Many major retail stores have complete car care kits, which include buckets, sponges, soaps cloths and polishes.

Petrolheads love old motoring related items.

For example, old signboards from petrol stations or oil tins, in fact, Christmas ideas for petrolheads

anything old-fashioned that you can get from an antique store.

Many rusted signs pertaining to cars or fuel and oil have been restored and preserved.

There’s nothing like a good old rusty Castrol Oil sign hanging in the garage.

For many car people, a car is just a bigger version of the toy cars that they used to play with when they were younger.

Unfortunately, many of us used to play with Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Secretly we still want to play with them and continue dreaming.

Find out what car your loved one really dreams of and go out and buy it for them, even if it’s only 1:16 scale version.

You could also get them a model car that they need to assemble themselves.

This will keep them busy, and off the internet, looking for another car to buy for a good few days.

Radio control cars are also high on our list because there is a wide variety and, unlike model cars, these actually move, and some move really quickly.

You could purchase an already built one or you could get the one that needs to be assembled. We recommend the latter because true petrolheads live by the saying, built not bought.

What’s more is that once the radio control car is built, you can join a local club where enthusiasts meet, mostly in mall parking lots and race each other.

Lastly, we come to the vast world of gadgets.

There are so many out there that can benefit the modern petrolhead in your family.

A few ideas we have include a smartphone mount for GPs use and a Bluetooth radio frequency streamer with USB for those who don’t have a car with built-in USB and Bluetooth.

Clothes are also a welcome gift as we can never have enough car branded clothing.

Just find out what car or racing team your petrolhead supports, as you don’t want to buy a Mercedes-aMG F1 shirt only for them to end up being a Ferrari supporter.

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