Who remembers?

[Gen]

 

 

Was a Nokia fan

 

 

Not my question

 

Sea Point?

I was chatting to an old school friend about that cricket game..he was a very keen cricketer and no matter what every year with his birthday party we would end the party off by playing that game (this was in primary school)

[Stoffel76]

I was chatting to an old school friend about that cricket game..he was a very keen cricketer and no matter what every year with his birthday party we would end the party off by playing that game (this was in primary school)

I see it's still available... 

 

https://www.takealot.com/test-match-cricket/PLID55544543

 

Was thinking of getting it for my kids for Christmas...

[Gen]

I see it's still available...

 

https://www.takealot.com/test-match-cricket/PLID55544543

 

Was thinking of getting it for my kids for Christmas...

It was an awesome game..

 

Without fail every year a thunder storm would come over during his party..we would all get out of the pool and go and play this game.. strange how some things take you back. And we were in the same class from nursery school to matric and this game is the first thing I think of when I think of him.

 

He is going to have a good laugh when I tell him he can get it on takealot.

[DJR]

Is that a Taunus in the background?

 Good grief, I didn't think a single soul would know that!

 

I was very young but I remember that it got stuck in reverse gear and that we had to flee a herd of angry elephants in reverse, and a long way back to camp all the way still in reverse.

[DJR]

Which gate is that one?

I think it was the very far northern one nearest Punda Maria 

[DJR]

My next visit in SA will defintely include a trip there.  Also have fond memories from childhood.  With my work in SA I often spent a few nights in towns close by (like Phalaborwa, White River, etc) and would then go for a drive there for two or more hours after work.

I've avoided it for a decade or more because I got it into my head that it had gone too tame and too touristy. So, we went further afield, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique.

 

Then, year before last, I decided that I had to take my kids to Kruger, just because they are South Africans and it was "the right thing to do". We only managed to get camping bookings in the busier bigger camps in the south. Berg en Dal, Pretorius Kop and Skukuza and we had no option but to do it in the middle of the June / July school holidays, the very busiest most touristy period. I really dreaded it!

 

It was FANTASTIC! We enjoyed every minute and I came away very proud of how the place was managed. The people were friendly, it was not over crowded, people behaved, no loud parties, no drunken louts. Sure, there are a couple of new restaurants, but they blend in and at least the food is better than the old SANParks dining places used to be. 

 

I'll go back any day.

[Bonus]

I've avoided it for a decade or more because I got it into my head that it had gone too tame and too touristy. So, we went further afield, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique.

 

Then, year before last, I decided that I had to take my kids to Kruger, just because they are South Africans and it was "the right thing to do". We only managed to get camping bookings in the busier bigger camps in the south. Berg en Dal, Pretorius Kop and Skukuza and we had no option but to do it in the middle of the June / July school holidays, the very busiest most touristy period. I really dreaded it!

 

It was FANTASTIC! We enjoyed every minute and I came away very proud of how the place was managed. The people were friendly, it was not over crowded, people behaved, no loud parties, no drunken louts. Sure, there are a couple of new restaurants, but they blend in and at least the food is better than the old SANParks dining places used to be. 

 

I'll go back any day.

 

 

Likewise, the folks took us there when we were kids in the 70's and, being pommies, we loved it.

 

Then, years later in the 90's, after I'd moved back to the UK and popped over to SA for a holiday, I went there with my sister and her family and was really dissapointed . . . 

 

Never been back, but have since been to some smaller lodges that were excellent.

 

Nice to hear that you had a good experience.

[Zatopek]

I have also seen old cars with the overdrive "button" there.

Yup, Ford Zephyr 

[Blokman]

Is that a Taunus in the background?

I seem to remember that the Ford Corsair and the Taunus was just about the same car branded differently. 

[Warthog]

I seem to remember that the Ford Corsair and the Taunus was just about the same car branded differently. 

Wasn't the Taunus the Australian version which ended up here?

[DJR]

Since we are talking obscure cars, somewhere in the 1970s we also had something called a Rambler Hornet. All I remember about it is that it went like the clappers and that its wipers only worked intermittently. That didn't bother my dad much, living in the Karoo, it wasn't something that was often needed and also the reason we only discovered that problem long after we got the car. Until one day, he decided to find and fix the problem. He dismantled the bits covering the wiper motor and swing arms and found a massive screwdriver that was left in there and every now and again prevented the moving parts from functioning correctly. It was spayed partly blue, the same as the car, so it must have been in there from before it was painted in the factory. Talk about remembering!   (And yes, I know the image is the wrong way around, it was scanned from a slide......and you know how those things turn themselves the wrong way all on their own!)

[Hairy]

Since we are talking obscure cars, somewhere in the 1970s we also had something called a Rambler Hornet. All I remember about it is that it went like the clappers and that its wipers only worked intermittently. That didn't bother my dad much, living in the Karoo, it wasn't something that was often needed and also the reason we only discovered that problem long after we got the car. Until one day, he decided to find and fix the problem. He dismantled the bits covering the wiper motor and swing arms and found a massive screwdriver that was left in there and every now and again prevented the moving parts from functioning correctly. It was spayed partly blue, the same as the car, so it must have been in there from before it was painted in the factory. Talk about remembering!   (And yes, I know the image is the wrong way around, it was scanned from a slide......and you know how those things turn themselves the wrong way all on their own!)

rather fancy that car

[sawystertrance]

Since we are talking obscure cars, somewhere in the 1970s we also had something called a Rambler Hornet. All I remember about it is that it went like the clappers and that its wipers only worked intermittently. That didn't bother my dad much, living in the Karoo, it wasn't something that was often needed and also the reason we only discovered that problem long after we got the car. Until one day, he decided to find and fix the problem. He dismantled the bits covering the wiper motor and swing arms and found a massive screwdriver that was left in there and every now and again prevented the moving parts from functioning correctly. It was spayed partly blue, the same as the car, so it must have been in there from before it was painted in the factory. Talk about remembering!   (And yes, I know the image is the wrong way around, it was scanned from a slide......and you know how those things turn themselves the wrong way all on their own!)

I may be wrong but I think I remember the traffic cops in Cape Town used to have those cars.

[sawystertrance]

I seem to remember that the Ford Corsair and the Taunus was just about the same car branded differently. 

No way. Perhaps even in those days the chassis and motors were the same but they looked very different.

[Bonus]

We had a puncture once out in the car. Dad took off the wheel to change it and found a set of molgrips he'd left on the brake housing 2 years previously.....   

[CAAD4]

My 57 Ford also had the dim bright switch on the floor.