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What drove great men?

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Bobby standing next to the Chevrolet Kingswood that the Kaunda family used in the 60s.  This 1960s Cadillac LTD belonged Mainza Chona, who once served as vice-president. This MGM was picked from Eastern Province.  Bobby has 38 cars in his collection. Bobby has restored this hearse to running condition.   What drove great men? JACK ZIMBA “DO YOU know how many people want to buy this car? There are stacks of them. I won’t sell this,” says Bobby van der Merwe. He is standing next to a 1960 Chevrolet Kingswood estate station wagon. And it is not just any another Chevy, but it is the one that Dr Kenneth Kaunda used in 1964. And it is one of only 4,000 that rolled off the production line back then. She is a heavy-looking nine-sitter old mama, with the back seat facing backwards. Dr Kaunda’s son, Kaweche, remembers sitting in that back seat on family trips to see his grandmother in Malambo, Eastern Province. “It’s hard to believe this is where Z