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Enthusiast Essentials: Fuelstar’s premium combustion

6 November, 2016

Your classic vehicle can run on unleaded petrol thanks to Fuelstar Fuel Combustion Catalyst. Better yet, you won’t experience valve seat recession or loss of power, and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg — or be messy. It overcomes spark plug fouling and has a life expectancy of at least 1,000,000km. It’s even been technologically endorsed by NASA.

Fuelstar Fuel Combustion Catalyst is available starting at $184 to $299 depending on your engine size, and you can get one through most garages in New Zealand, or direct from fuelstar.com.

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.