TAILEND
Albeit this article covers a Northern Region event, it is featured at the Tailend section in honour of our late Vice President – Christopher Carlisle-Kitz – who was the exclusive author of the Tailend. Goodbye Christopher, memories with you, my lovely wife Claudine and I in the baba cage, will never be forgotten. Editor. Foreword by Sven Krassnokutski: I asked Chris to write an article for the Benz Lens about the Northern Region’s latest outing, which was an informal gathering at the MercedesBenz Centurion dealership. Chris kindly agreed to do so, as he always did, but sadly, never managed to send me the article. He was still busy finalising and ‘polishing’ it, as he always did. Anna-Lee, thank you for sending on Chris’s work-in-progress for this article, which I have taken the liberty of tweaking very slightly to fill in some details and finish off. Chris - thank you for always being present and enthusiastic at Club events and for going the extra mile to be of service to the Club and its members. You will be sorely missed.
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A visit to our local dealership Saturday 29 May 2021 By Chris Carlisle-Kitz
I am having difficulty finding an interesting story in what turned out to be a very pleasant outing to Mercedes-Benz Centurion. However let me see how this turns out! I was up early and anxious to finish applying the last of the decals to my race car before the outing. This has been a full rebuild of the car during lockdown, but that is not today’s story. The last decal to apply to the doors was the racing number. I have the same racing number as that other
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famous Mercedes F1 racing driver number: 44. So, on a Mercedes note, the day started off well! Now satisfied with my early morning’s work and having carefully wiped the dust off my beautiful blue Fintail, I left for the outing. With its newly rebuilt engine, the car was running well
