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Haven’t got your cards yet, or want another pack? Head to Battery Town now

4 May, 2015

 


Get your free pack of Battery Town NZV8 playing cards with every vehicle battery sold during May

These special edition playing cards feature 50 different feature cars from the last 10 years of NZV8 magazine and have been carefully selected to showcase the amazing variety of V8s out there in New Zealand.

If you want a pack, all you need to do is head into any Battery Town store across New Zealand, buy a battery for a vehicle, motorcycle, or boat, or purchase a deep-cycle battery, and you’ll walk away with a pack. Be quick though, as stocks are limited!

Find your nearest Battery Town store

Terms and Conditions:

  • One pack per battery sold.
  • Must be a vehicle, motorcycle, boat, or deep-cycle battery.
  • Does not apply to less than 50a/h SLA batteries.
  • Does not apply to other Battery Town sales, labour, or accessories.
  • Limited print run edition of cards — while stocks last.

To finish first, first, you must build a winner

5 February, 2025

Can-Am royalty
Only three M20s were built, including the car that was destroyed at Road Atlanta. This car was later rebuilt. All three cars were sold at the end of the 1972 season. One of the cars would score another Can-Am victory in 1974, driven by a privateer, but the M20’s day was done. Can-Am racing faded away at the end of that season and was replaced by Formula 5000.
These days the cars are valued in the millions. It was unlikely that I would ever have seen one in the flesh if it hadn’t been that one day my editor asked me if I would mind popping over to Taranaki and having a look at a pretty McLaren M20 that somebody had built in their shed.
That is how I came to be standing by the car owned and built by truck driver Leon Macdonald.

Lunch with … Roly Levis

31 January, 2025

Lunching was not allowed during Covid 19 Lockdowns so our correspondent recalled a lunch he had with legendary New Zealand racing driver Rollo Athol Levis shortly before he died on 1 October 2013 at the age of 88. Michael Clark caught up with Roly and members of his family over vegetable soup