Events

Nissan – Feel the Spirit

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July 27, 2009
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I forget where I got these photos from, other than the internet somewhere in one of my many various voyages of automotive discovery. If you know where they’re from, I’ll gladly make reference to them so they can receive the credit. I should be more vigilant in my voyages really. Ah well.

Anyway, here’s a collection of pictures taken of the Nissan stand at what was either a specifically Nissan show or something greater, I’m unsure. Either way it’s a collection of their cars used in motorsport across the generations. Pretty impressive showing I think and definitely worth being posted for all to see. We’ll start with the classics;

1958 Datsun 210 Bluebird Rally Car

Datsun 210 Bluebird Rally Car

As is after use in the Australian Mobil-Gas Rally of 1958 where it obviously encountered at least some drama judging by the front right wing.  Jump a few years forward and onto something a little faster…

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2006 Vero Vintage Car Rally, Pt. IV

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July 22, 2009
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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…)

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2006 Datsun SFOS Meeting

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July 21, 2009
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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.

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2006 Vero Vintage Car Rally, Pt. III

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July 17, 2009
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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.

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2006 Vero Vintage Car Rally, Pt. II

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July 10, 2009
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1919 Hupmobile

1919 Hupmobile

So after getting my hands on a camera that wasn’t decrepid and useless I set about taking photos of the cars in one of their several meetings places before they would scurry about the Southland countryside.  The majority of this next selection of photographs was taken from the car park area of Stadium Southland the remainder were taken at various motel car parks on the way to the Stadium.  Such a fantastic variety of vehicles involved in this rally with everything from the 1900′s through to the 1970′s, from Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Australia and Japan.  (more…)

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