Archive for December 16th, 2008

Teretonga: 50th Anniversary

December 16, 2008

To those unaware, Teretonga is Invercargill’s race track.

Their website can be found here;

(click the picture to link)

Every year around the middle and tail end of February, the “Southern Festival of Speed” (a series that has events in Christchurch (Ruapuna), Timaru (Levels), Dunedin (Street Race) and as mentioned, Invercargill (Teretonga)) rolls into town.  Cars come from all over the  globe, the most recent one saw Can-Am cars (amongst others) take to the course, which was a very welcome spectacle to those who were used to much quieter modern machinery and your more typical Formula Ford affairs.

McLaren Can-Am Goodness

McLaren Can-Am Goodness

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Cleaning & Detailing.

December 16, 2008

Having once worked as a Car Groomer, I have a great appreciation for those that take a massive amount of time and effort to properly and sometimes anally clean their or other peoples vehicles.  There’s likely a few different websites and forums about that are dedicated to this type of thing but one of the more well known ones is detailingworld.co.uk

Though a lot of people seem to scoff at those that go right to the extreme of measuring the depth of the paint and such things, it’s these fastidious details that pass on and allow the lives of cars to continue in other’s hands rather than being sent to the scrapper.

Here’s a few before and after’s,  lots of the threads on detailingworld.co.uk are worth a good gander.  Of course, once you’re there, feel free to have a nosey about, there’s some epic skill on show and some fine machinery also.

Before

Before

After

After

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