18 December, 2015
So, you missed the episode of NAC Car Culture on TV3 didn’t you? Well, never fear, you can watch every single episode right here on The Motorhood shortly after it’s been aired on TV. Never miss an episode again; simply bookmark this page, and check it out every Sunday evening to get your NAC Car Culture fix!
You’ll be able to watch episode ten here at The Motorhood below, from 6pm on Sunday, December 19, so make sure you check it out then!
The Surgery is hosting car club visits
The Surgery is hosting a joint meet for the Wellington Corvette and Mustang groups this coming weekend, August 9.
The Surgery – NZ’s Top Classic Car Restoration Shop
Based in Tawa, Wellington, The Surgery is one of the country’s leading restoration workshops with over 35 years’ experience. Everything’s done in-house to concours standards using top materials and techniques. Professional, friendly, and trusted by classic car owners nationwide — including plenty of Corvette fans.
For more info or to arrange a visit for your car club, contact John Stevenson-Galvin at the Surgery, thesurgery.co.nz
There’s been a proliferation of ‘barn find’ and ‘junkyard relic’ type books hitting the market, over the last 10 years or so. Writer Tom Cotter has been a major culprit with titles like Barn Find Road Trip, The Cobra in the Barn, Route 66 — Barn Find Road Trip and many others. In the same vein are: Lost Muscle Cars and a swath by Jerry Heasley, such as Jerry Heasley’s Rare Finds: Mustangs and Fords. They are almost exclusively American titles.
It got me thinking of all the road trips I’d charted around this country over 40 plus years hunting out and photographing what I thought of as roadside jewels — diamonds in the rough if you like, captured in all their glory, ensnared by time and weeds out in the back blocks. Interestingly, most of those cars have disappeared with the passage of yet more time.
Mulling on this point prompted me to go through scenes that had captivated me over 45 years on the road, an epitaph of sorts of earlier times, when these cars arrived at their final resting spot. I’d also capture those on their last legs, supposedly still operational and snapped curbside. I’ll also include a few snaps from my overseas junkets in Cuba, Buenos Aires and other locales.
