By Duncan Guy Nov 14, The Citroen DS was a futuristic car when it first came off the production line in , it was able to handle the cobbled roads of France, says South Coast classic car collector Richard Broome who with his son, Oliver, is opening a classic car museum near Munster.
They also have an early Beetle Volkswagen, built in on the chassis of a model, possibly made from parts that had been hidden in caves after the Allies had bombed the manufacturing plant. Only one of the 20 vehicles that will be on display at any one time, has a name.
He then collected old cars but had to give them up when he moved to South Africa, at the age of 21, in , but started again from scratch. But there was trouble with the lift there, so I pinched the car again to get there! From then on, Oliver β now 45 β knew his future would involve cars and he started restoring old classics, making a business of it and moving to the KZN South Coast, 16 years ago.
In addition to being a racer himself, he has managed to acquire and repair, cars used by his racing heroes including Sean van der Linde, Mike Briggs, Deon Joubert and the late Tony Viana.
He has also ventured to Zimbabwe to find classic cars that had been saved from being crushed and chopped up, as would have happened in South Africa, because of a ban on the scrap metal trade.
