Author Archive

Part IV of this brings it to an end, this final day involved the majority of the cars being parked in some sports grounds for the public to oggle at.  It was a good day, sadly I didn’t have the time to take photos of everything that was there but I did take as many as I could in the time I had.  I think there’s a pretty decent selection to have a squiz at.  One of my favourite, if not my favourite of the whole she-bang, I didn’t stumble upon until the show/display and that was this car…

1935 Aubern Speedster

1935 Auburn Speedster

The information on carjam.co.nz would indicate that this is in fact a Custom-built, so it’s either a replica or there was some strange dealings done in getting it onto the road.  Whatever the case, be it replica or not, it’s an amazing machine.  What’s not to like?  It’s a truly amazing machine, the whole sculpted body is just craftsmanship perfected, I’d own one in a heartbeat if I could, here’s some more shots and some of what else was on display including the link to the flickr Gallery with 95 images… (more…)

WAAAAAAY back in 2006 (okay, so it’s not that long ago) was the last Festival of Speed meeting that I attended, I didn’t take my C110 as it had recently been involved in a crash that left it off the road for several months (mostly due to the massive delay of the Insurance side of things) so I ended up attending in my brother’s 240Z just as a regular passenger and bystander type of person.

Line-up to enter the display

Line-up to enter the display

For reasons unknown, I have no photographs of the voyage up though I did take a few of the display, yet none of the antics.  So I present to you the following photos, taken on the old Agfa camera, they’re not fantastic in quality but they are better than nothing.  We were so pleased with the size of our display, as were the organisers of the event who couldn’t believe we’d got together than many cars just to come to their meeting.

Though the display is not as diverse as it could have been if many more member’s could make the day and there are a million 510′s, it’s still an impressive collection of roadworthy cars.

Display mostly setup

Display mostly setup

Some sort of Australian car display was opposite.  Insignificant by comparison.

Some sort of Australian car display was opposite. Insignificant by comparison.

(more…)

Ah, the rain.  I shall endure it!

Ah, the rain. I shall endure it!

The third chapter in the Vero Vintage Car Rally saga entails me standing out in the rain taking photo’s of several cars as they left their Gala Street meeting point before heading off on their country-side tour.  I’m not a professional photographer (quite obviously) and none of these photos have been changed except to add the retro-classics watermark.

1956 Ford Truck

1956 Ford Truck

Again, you can follow the link at the base of this entry to get to the flickr gallery where the rest of the photo’s taken that day (52 in total) as well as the link to the VCC website with information on the next Rally, in 2012.

(more…)

Fairlady 240ZG

July 16, 2009

240ZG

More on this and the rest of the Datsun/Nissan’s that attended the 2006 Southern Festival of Speed, in the coming day(s).

Two Forty

July 15, 2009

Memories

Memories