CENTRAL REGION THE TAILEND OF 2021 By Jaco Kachelhoffer
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fter the success of our region’s 50th celebration of the 107 models, the COVID-19 factor started looming again and larger official club events were put on hold once again with our big event, Bloemfontein Cars in the Park being cancelled for a second year. Despite this, our region still managed to get together on a smaller scale and during August the Bloemfontein members gathered at the Kachelhoffer barn for a steak and hotdog lunch and in September our Northern Cape members had a very successful get together at the Kimberley Mercedes-Benz dealership. Our planned visit to Frankfort in September to see Paul van Wyk’s extensive collection also did not realise, but we were not too
worried about this as we know that Paul will have even more vehicles in his collection for us to see in 2022! Our Northern Cape contingent also hosted other breakfast runs in their area. October fortunately brought some more opportunities and on 16 October 2021 we visited the exceptional collection of Bloemfontein’s Frikkie Esterhuizen, consisting of about 6 Ferraris, 3 Firenza V8 Can Am’s, Capri and Cortina Peranas, Mustang Shelby’s and other rare models, all in concours condition. It was really great to see some of our club friends again and to chat about all things car and family related, in times when this privilege is unfortunately very rare. Everyone really enjoyed and appreciated Frikkie’s hospitality
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