REMEMBER THOSE VOLKSWAGEN BEETLES THEY USED TO BE MOVED AT NIGHT WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
Our magic car was a Ford station Wagon, SC 15, when mom and dad where asleep, it would magically drive itself to the beach..... funny thing that, if you were lucky enough it would take you and your mates, with their beer with....
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My magic car, was a yellow beach buggy... and a white Datsun bakkie!
Magical - they definitely were!
Old man Louw, Julian, Eugene's old man , lived by the tank park, I have a vague memory of Julian duping me into helping him push his old mans Green Jag out and down the road, whilst he slept, what happened after, I do not remember......
What about borrowing other peoples Yachts down at the pan when they were'nt around!
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Mike if I remember correctly your Mom and Dad also had a cream and burgundy Volkswagen variant fastback late 70 s .. they would pack in the Alexander tribe to go visiting ....
Sandy you got of wrong! We kids had to walk, the car was used to transport vodka and whisky and off course the music instruments....
I think my dad rolled that car on the golf club bend, the one opposite the airport...
one saturday afternoon..... u know why!
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Mike ... You forgot that car had two boots ... one in front and one at the back ... so there was just enough room for you all !! albeit one saw you kids with faces squashed up against the windows . sort of packed in last ... which reminds me of Trevor Boltman they had a tribe of 6 .. when He and Pam used to arrive at the Lissers for a party or evening of cards with tribe all packed into a Ford Anglia . he would hold roll call as they all bundled out in case he had forgotten one of them ....
Hi Sandy,
I've just had a memory jolt ...... Trevor Boltman ....... I can recall he had a heart attack in the early seventies. His son Wayne was in my class. ( Was there a Mark Boltman as well?) Where did they land up after O/mund?
Hi Nicky .. Trevor Boltman.. left Oranjemund . worked for various tyre firms stayed in goodwood / parow area .. passed away last year from heart attack .. In O'mund they were great party folks and liked the young crowd ... In Ct he in his last years had turned to religion , went to his funeral .. was very well liked by the size of the crowd at service ..
Diane Young and myself had a magic Vespa. We'd borrow it from her sister Gladys Grigg, never mind that we spent most of the time pushing it to the beach.
Quote from: Michael Alexander on July 31, 2007, 02:18:34 PM
I think my dad rolled that car on the golf club bend, the one opposite the airport...
Quite famous that bend. My brother and Michael Dippenaar borrowed his dad's car from outside Caseys one evening and went on a joyride to the beach. At this famous bend they left the road and caused a substantial dent in the side of the car. They then drove it back to town and parked it in the same spot outside Caseys. The dent was blamed on a drunken patron from Caseys who till this day remains unnamed.
I remember my beetle had an autopilot mode and one night decided to drive to the beach we had a good time and when I got home I thought I was in the clear untill my dad asked me if everyone was ok and if the car was ok! He didnt utter another word and I couldnt sleep for the rest of the night because I was stressing!
sunday afternoons were the best,michael langford,neville langford ,myself and others used to go to the garrage,behind the first ave trees and take the hired cars for a spin around the dumps,i remember going on the road passed the first ave trees and launching a mazda bakkie,hand gears in them days,could not multi task,clutch and change,and steer,and look at the road at the same time,but i ended up in the front of all the ripe sugar cain which was growing at the side of the road,lekker munch on the way home,if only mother found out,ha ha