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Guy shows us exactly how to sell a used piece of crap

23 May, 2017

Injecting a healthy dose of comedy in the ad for your used piece of crap is a sure fire way to get people looking at it, even if it never really does end with a sale as a result.

Latvian-native and visual effects expert Eugene Romanovsky didn’t just list his 1996 Suzuki Vitara on the local TradeMe equivalent and call it a day, no, he created the most far fetched history of a car ever and made sure that a hoard of people will see it.

We’d say the effort was well placed, considering it’s reached our shores … check it out below

Lunch with … Rodger Anderson

22 November, 2024

At first, I wondered if I’d driven up the wrong driveway. The car in the garage was an early Mustang resplendent in royal blue with two broad gold stripes, which was not what I was expecting. I knew that Rodger Anderson, who made his name in Minis and a BMW 2002, was a Porsche man these days — the other end of the spectrum from American muscle. I had no idea of his affection for Detroit iron. It didn’t take long to discover just how passionate this former Saloon Car Champion is about cars, as long as they’re interesting.

Back from the brink – 1968 MGB GT

15 November, 2024

Auckland classic car enthusiast Kerry Bowman soon realised he had a massive job on his hands in restoring his classic 1968 MGB GT. When Kerry and his MGB first appeared in New Zealand Classic Car in March 2021, in “Behind The Garage Door”, the stripped-out shell had revealed some nasty surprises. Once the true extent of the hidden damage was discovered, the work would normally have been handed over to a professional fabricator. However, with the assistance of experts such as MG specialist restorer, Paul Walbran, Kerry has completed an impressive restoration and saved this car from the scrapheap.