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Back in 2013, I purchased my 1990 500SL (R129) and joined the club, but my love affair with Mercedes-Benz goes back to the start of my working life. In July 1973 I started work at Cambridge Motors of Chelmsford who were the main distributors for Mercedes-Benz cars in East Anglia. In November 1973 I passed my driving test and returned to work, I proudly told my boss the good news! He asked if I had ever driven an automatic and said no I haven’t, at which point he jumped out of his office chair and said right, you‘d better have a lesson. He handed me a set of keys and led me to a dark blue 280SE W108. We got into the car and he explained not to use my left foot and I drove away from the forecourt. I successfully completed a 10-mile trip including reversing it back into a parking bay. He said well done you can drive automatics now, and this was my introduction to driving a Mercedes-Benz! Cambridge Motors closed back in 1984 and where the buildings stood became the Tesco store in Springfield Road. I left the car trade in 1984 and went into manufacturing and engineering design, but that’s another story. After joining the club in the autumn of 2013, my wife Valerie and I attended our first pub meet in the spring of 2014 and were made most welcome. This prompted us to attend various events and I volunteered to help out from parking arrangements to erecting the club gazebo. In 2015 I joined the ASR Team, as a Regional Officer. I have now accepted the role of CLS (C219/C218/X218) Model Register Captain. I have admired the elegant CLS range from the first time I saw one, way back in 2005 whilst visiting the old Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Then when the CLS Shooting Brake came out, I knew I had to have one!

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