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Parow High School Concourse

On Saturday, 1st November 2008 we were invited by Cape Town Street Rods to attend their annual show at the Parow High School. It is the third time this invitation has been extended, and this time our very active chairman thought it would be an appropriate time to make use of this event to run a separate concourse for the GSM Club. A tremendous idea it proved to be. The venue is virtually right next to Voortrekker Road Parow, opposite the New National Hotel, and any activity attract lots of spectators. Entrance was a very reasonable R10,00, if you were an exhibitor, entrance was free, and I think the show was well attended.

Unfortunately, our chairman could not attend, as he was entered in the Crankhandle Club’s annual Houw Hoek run with his very pretty and original 1969 R100 Mazda Rotary. One of only a few imported into S.A. and probably the only one still running. Rose, his wife, acted as navigator and they held the name of the GSM Club high, by finishing in midfield, and having a ball.

Peanuts lent us his also very pretty and original GSM Dart to display at the show, and also Rose’s recently restored GSM Flamingo, also in fantastic condition. The GSM part of the show on that day, took up almost the entire west boundary of the field, with 17 cars, including for the first time, a Flamingo from Natal, new to the Cape. It is the powder blue car of Deon Smit brought to the Cape. After driving a few Flamingo’s at the Pot Belly Pantry recently he decided he needed his own one. This car is still in the care of Clarry Tayor, as Deon bought it before completion of the KZN project. I am sure that even the good work started in KZN, will be completed by Clarry in his meticulous way and the original owner and Deon will be very happy and proud of his new and very neat Flaming, as a sister car to his already lovely Dart. I suppose Annatjie will be driving the Flamingo in future.

Apart from a good attendance of GSM, very well assisted by our Somerset West contingent, our show took the form of a Concourse. All the cars were beautiful, clean and well prepared. Reg Farrow and Alf Todd had their Hayden Darts there as well.