When I arrived on the scene, my parents quickly got rid of their Peugeot coupé and bought a Ford Granada estate. Before that, my father’s 1960’s Mini Cooper S and MG-B would have no doubt cut a dash in early 1970s Yorkshire.
Whenever I see an old liftback Corolla, I think about my dad’s yellow coupé, now a sought-after classic. In South Africa, different brands appear in the dusty cupboards of old motoring memories. Toyota, of course, but more commonly Volkswagen. I spent road time in “Matti”, the last Beetle built by VWSA. A 1300 built in 1979, the car came standard with the flat four in the boot and just a smidge under 39kW.
Matti reflects perfectly what the Beetle is: a pre-war design so robust and enduring that it found happy buyers into the 1980s. It was enormously comfortable and happiest cruising at around 80-90km/h. The car reminded me of my father’s stories from Berlin in the 1960s, where he drove a Beetle. One car, though, was altogether different. My most recent GTi memory is of an unforgettable blast from what was then called PE through to Cape Town in a Clubsport. Other than that, my GTi connections are nonexistent. I cannot truly say that it was as a blank page that I stepped into the Mk1 GTi. The car is legendary for bringing performance to the ordinary motorist, for appropriating some of the fun from the prestige brands and bringing it to those who drive family hatchbacks.
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