Piet se Gat By Jaco Kachelhoffer
Our second event for the year was held in April in the rural town of Petrusburg between Bloemfontein and Kimberley. The name of the venue is “Piet se Gat”, the name obviously referring to the name of the owner and we hope the rest refers to what is called in English: “a watering hole”. Our members from Bloemfontein met up at a central location and started the +- 80 km to Petrusburg. Several of our Northern Cape members were to join from the other side as well – in total we were 19 adults and 2 children. The Bloemfontein contingent was led by Gert Coetzee in his 1968 230S Fintail and he kept up a steady pace of more or less
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120 kph without any hassles. He was followed by Johnny Fourie in his beautiful 1985 W123 200 and then some newer models. Japie Vos in his CLK 63 Black Series was being kept under control by placing him in the middle of our line of vehicles. He did, however, give us a satisfactory earful of the powerful engine when he departed the venue heading home! Piet se Gat did not disappoint as they had a well-stocked “watering hole” and we enjoyed a very tasty meal of Bobotie, yellow rice, caramelised pumpkin puffs, greenbeans, lovely salads etc. All this was topped off with a traditional malva pudding, ice cream and custard and then some cof-
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fee to get us back into shape for the trip back home. It felt good meeting up with our members again and we do hope that the Covid-19 restrictions will continue to give us leeway to carry on with our regular club outings. n
