DRIVING CARS

[goofy]

REMEMBER THOSE VOLKSWAGEN BEETLES THEY USED TO BE MOVED AT NIGHT WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

[Michael Alexander]

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....

;D

[Shola Schreuder]

My magic car, was a yellow beach buggy... and a white Datsun bakkie!

Magical - they definitely were!

[Michael Alexander]

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!

;)

[SandyB]

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 ....

[Michael Alexander]

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!

::)

[SandyB]

 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 ....

[Nicky Hodge]

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?

[SandyB]

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 ..

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

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.

[Carl Wrbka]

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.

[Jeremy Dixon]

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!

[bobbysmith]

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