To all who participated in the Buick Club’s Western Cape All GM event on 1 November 2009.

Firstly, thank you to all for attending the event. Your presence ensured its success. We all know the effort, preparation and cost that goes into participating in events. Some like Bertie Bester, Tienie Marais and new member Michael Cummings brought two cars. We appreciate your special effort.

Thank you most sincerely Leonard and John for planning and organizing the event and securing the lovely venue at Kobus and Ina Rossouw’s home. All enjoyed it and there were some very interesting and unusual cars on show. Kobus and his family went to a lot of trouble to ensure that their lovely large, well treed and grassed property was in pristine condition for this show. A very big thank you to Kobus and his family for allowing us the use of his home, the braai fires, all the amenities and viewing his collection of classic, hotrods and other special cars. The hospitality and kindness of our Western Cape members and Classic car enthusiasts is always in the true tradition of our South African culture. It makes me proud to be South African.

Thank you also to our Chairman Alex Duffey and three of our committee members Daan, George and Chris for travelling down from Gauteng to attend the event.

Really nice to meet up with Peter Breitenstein, all the way from Namibia.

There were some stunning cars on show -

Firstly the Buicks

John Smith’s 1958 Special
Tienie Marais’s 1948 Super
Roland Harrington’s 1931 model 57X
Michael Cumming’s very original unrestored 1948 Super
Willie Boltman’s beautifully restored 1948 Special
Vic Rossouw’s 1968 Skylark convertible
Theo and Laurie Classen’s 1956 Special convertible
Bertie Bester’s 1938 model 61
Bertie Bester's 1941 Century convertible
Les Boshoff’s 1940 Century
Hans Matter ’s 1935 Coupe

And then the stunning and very rare Cadillacs

1928 V8 Coupe owned by Hendrik Joubert
1968 Fleetwood owned by Peter Venter
1958 Eldorado Coupe owned by Thee Classens and friend

A very rare Bitter CD owned by Dave Lyon. 
This stunning coupe was based on he Opel CD concept car and used the GM 327cu V8 drive train 
and modified chassis that was used in the Opel Diplomat – only 395 were built between 1973 and 1979

Recently acquired original 1960 Corvette owned by Otto Langeveldt

Stunning Chevs and other GM cars and trucks

1960 Corvette - did not get to meet you
1936 Chev owned by Michael Cummings
1950 Chev - Les Wasserfal
1953 Chev - Tienie Marais
1958 Pontiac Stratochief - did not get to meet you
1960 Chev LDV - Francis Rowland
1960 Chev Truck (unrestored) - Dave Abrahamse

And several GM based Hotrods, a Pontiac GTO and others

Last but not least, a big thank you to the ladies who attended and supported their husbands and partners and looked after the visitors from Gauteng. It was much appreciated.

Lots of all round organizing effort ensured a very successful event at a lovely venue on a nice sunny Cape day. 

Kind regards and happy Buick and GM motoring

Chris Palk
Vice Chairman
Buick Club of SA