Work with Protecta

3 April, 2017

 

If you love cool cars and dealing with great people, then the team at Protecta Insurance may have the dream job waiting for you. Despite providing insurance cover for more than 30 years, the company has just had its biggest month ever, and the current staff level won’t be enough as the company continues to grow.

As you’ll likely know, Protecta isn’t your average boring insurance company, but one where the staff own, drive, and love classic and custom cars and motorbikes. It’s also the driving force behind the biggest monthly car meet in the country — Caffeine & Classics  — as well as the sponsor of countless other events around the country. 


If you’re knowledgeable and passionate, about both cars and offering a high level of customer service, Protecta has opportunities in Customer Service, Claims, and Sales available. So, if you think Protecta Insurance sounds like your sort of place to work, contact the team for a chat on [email protected] or call 0800 776 832.
 

To finish first, first, you must build a winner

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

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