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Buy a Casio Edifice watch and be in to win an ITM Auckland SuperSprint VIP experience

10 October, 2016

Thanks to Casio and its elegant Edifice watch range, you could experience the ITM Auckland SuperSprint in style. The grand prize includes two ITM Auckland SuperSprint three-day VIP passes, and, if required, two nights’ accommodation, return flights, and car hire. It also includes a $200 MTA fuel voucher, plus the chance to meet the drivers and take part in a grid walk.

All you need to do to go in the draw is purchase any Casio Edifice watch from participating retailers between Monday, September 5, and Sunday, October 16. Participating stores include: Stewart Dawson stores, Christies Papatoetoe, Christies Palmerston North, Christies Richmond, Daniels Showcase Jewellers, Wrights Showcase, Baywatch, Skelts, Cambridge Jewellers, Stonex Otahuhu.

A second dose of Dash

24 April, 2025

When the car arrived in Wellington in December 2018 it was duly taken along for entry certification. Vehicle Inspection NZ (VINZ) found some wrongly wired lamps and switches — not too bad — but, much more significantly, some poor welding repairs. As the structural problems were probed more thoroughly, we realized the previous owner’s restoration would not do and we needed an upgrade. Dash had made it into the country but it would take some time and money before he would be free to explore any of New Zealand’s scenic highways.
We took the car to our new home in Johnsonville in the northern suburbs of Wellington and I pored over the car in detail to figure out what was next. There were lots of new parts on the car and a very perky reconditioned drivetrain but the chassis needed serious work.

Lunch with… Jim Palmer

16 April, 2025

In the 1960s, Hamilton’s Jim Palmer won the prestigious ‘Gold Star’ four times and was the first resident New Zealander home in the New Zealand Grand Prix on five consecutive occasions. He shared the podium with Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, Bruce McLaren, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart, and Chris Amon. The extent of his domination of the open-wheeler scene in New Zealand will probably never be matched or exceeded. Yet he’s always been modest about his achievements.