OK, so we don’t have any but I’ve been stumbling all over the web across awesome coverage and thought I’d provide a few links for you peoples. If you’re unaware, JCCA stands for Japanese Classic Car Association. So there’s things about at these meetings from all over the globe and not just Japan. My favourite [...]
Hands up if you, or someone you knew, ever owned a BFMR or BFMP Familia at some point. Now keep those hands up if you’ve ever blown a gearbox in one of ‘em before… just kidding. it’s not hard to see how the humble Familia managed to garner a reputation over here as being the [...]
If you ever wanted to get yourself an export version of the Nissan Cedric (in this instance Datsun 260C) I think you’d be hard pressed to find yourself anything even vaguely better than this one that is on trademe.co.nz right now; It’s cars like this that make me wish I had a job that paid [...]
MADNESS! With much thanks to Jon from RetroTech (RT on oldschool.co.nz) retro-classics is able to bring you some photographic coverage of the recent Muscle Car Madness show in Rangiora, it looks like it was a fairly decent day out with a fair bit on offer. Such as the following;
I was browsing through the legendary RR and I came across this which had been shared from another website, and is for sale on another, so I figure it’s fair game to share on RC The paint and everything about it, is so period correct, that despite it being a car I would otherwise find [...]
Browsing though NZ’s most popular local auction site, trademe.co.nz, you often stumble across the odd gem amongst the sea of modern cars, a few months ago this Volkswagen Beetle was stumbled upon, it disappeared for a while but popped up again recently, if you look at everything but the rear end, you wouldn’t pick it [...]
In an electric blue and with some serious work done, this Datsun 1600 (chassis code: 510) is most definitely “more than meets the eye.” Whilst browsing through the Datsun Owner’s Club of New Zealand website recently I was greeted by this fantastic sight. Although I must admit, initially I did think.. “Whip-de-Doo, another SR-powered 510″, [...]
Another event just passed, held in Wellington over the same weekend as the Kumeu Hotrod & Classic Show, is as the title of this post would suggest; ‘Wheels on the Waterfront’ (put on by the Capital City Rodders) the turnout of cars is not on a scale the likes Kumeu can offer but it certainly [...]
To bring you, epic wallpapers! As well as some photographic coverage of Wellington based events. In collaboration with ElPieso (elpieso.co.nz), retro-classics offer you the first of what shall be many different Wallpapers over the coming months/years/however long. The image is in 1600×1200, to download it; Firefox; Right Click -> Save Link As… Internet Explorer; Right [...]
Ah yes, that time of year has rolled around again, whilst still in the throws of summer it is car show time and these first few months of the year are especially busy, the first important one is of course the Kumeu show. Though this year it’s weekend conflicted with a newly organised Japanese Classic [...]
