A few weeks back we went out to one of our car club guy's farm for a gathering and a braai (bbq to you guys).Most of the cars out there were earlier than 1939 with some really old T's. Tom has a few cars in the bush below his garages. Amongst them are 61 and 62 Pontiacs. First a 4 door HT and the 62 is a superior Bodied Hearse.
Then the next weekend was a show at one of the local schools with about 130 vehicles. All the clubs join in so there is a wide variety of cars and styles. Even some where it is better just to look the other way and keep walking. (none of those were photograped). We took the EH wagon, the HR and the Little Vespa three wheeler delivery. In the back of the EH we had the baby OX wagon and the FB pedal car. Time has flown and now our second daughter is the driver.
A few days later we did a quick day trip about 200 km away to look at the heavy snow that had fallen the day before. We even found a supplier of white wall tyres on a farm!!!!
Blacky: Have you seen those pictures doing the rounds on the net of a guy who was shipping a collection of about a dozen XY GT's and a Monaro over there a few years back. I reckon he retired comfortably. Oddly enough I saw a Queensland registered car in town the other day. Nothing nice though, just a Honda dropping kids at a school.
Sad about the number of people that have left here, don't blame them though. All the clever ones have left in the "Brain Drain".
Cal: After the HR series they started changing the Holden name out and replacing it with the Chev badged ones. There were a few models with either Holden of Chev badges and by HQ it was all just Chev. The Statesman (as photo)= Caprice Classic, utes = ElCamino and Brougham = Constantia (name of an hiscorically interesting homestead down in the winelands near Cape Town)
Kommando was a name of local interest (Afrikaans). Sort of millitary.
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