22 May, 2017
The latest issue of New Zealand Classic Car is out now.
We’ve got our usual array of excellent content, including a celebration of 50 years of the Camaro, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, and a stunnning 1957 Buick Roadmaster taking pride of place on the cover.
Get down to your nearest milk bar and take a journey back in time with New Zealand Classic Car.
This could be good news for restoring cars and bikes – but we must be quick!
Our parliament is currently considering a member’s Bill, drawn by ballot, called the ‘Right to Repair’ Bill.
It’s due to go a Select Committee for consideration, and we can make submissions ie say what we think of it, before 3 April this year. It’s important because it will make spare parts and information for doing repairs far more readily available and this should slow the rate at which appliances, toys and so on get sent to landfill.
1959 Sunbeam Alpine: A road trip with Lady P
The romance of the road
The South Island begins to reveal its unbelievable beauty and clarity of light as we weave and bend past mountain peaks, blue flowing rivers, and bright green forests. Today, while the cutlery wheel continues to chime, there are no morbid rattles, and we are still alive. The road moves beneath us and I start to really understand what a road trip is all about: the warm analogue hum of the engine, the sensory overload of wind and sun, the dreamy pageant of shapes and colour that glides by like a movie set, not a cloud in the sky.
