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The October issue of New Zealand Classic Car has landed!

21 September, 2016

The October 2016 issue of New Zealand Classic Car has hit a shelf near you! Have a quick sneak peek at what you’ll find within the pages of the brand-new issue!

When Chris Alexander spotted our featured Ford Mk1 Cortina in a South Auckland wrecker’s yard, he couldn’t resist the temptation to rescue it and create something special. Take a look at the build shots here.

We take a close look at a monster of a track car — and one of of the rarest road cars in the world. Learn more here.

Find out why Mercury, the name of the Roman god of financial gain, was almost an appropriate name for one particular division of Ford. Get an insight into the full article here.

A full and comprehensive Targa New Zealand 2016 programme. Find out more here.

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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