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Don’t crash through your neighbour’s fence
The young Pretoria boykies were excited about
their mate Ed’s new project, a real-life hot rod!
Considering that we were all in the final year
of junior school in Hatfield, this was one huge
deal. Ed Murray had inherited the left-over bits
of an early ‘50s Vauxhall Velox after his brother
John was forced to buy the car when he’d had
a heck of a shunt, late, late one night at the old
Hillcrest Swimming Pool bend, while involved in
a dice with a hot Anglia or something.
Older brother John was in a Renault Dauphine
which he’d just immaculately refurbished and
then “tuned” with a couple of hot bits such as
a Nikki twin-choke carburettor and a sports exhaust. He spun out while pursuing the Anglia
through the mild left-hander, and happened
to collect – almost head-on – another late
night reveller in an old Vauxhall, punching it
from the opposite direction.
The crash actually made the front page of
The Pretoria News!
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John cried real tears for his written-off Dauphine, but to appease the good-natured
chap he crashed into, H