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Jack Brabham: a motor-racing legend

Regular New Zealand Classic Car columnist Donn Anderson has won this year’s MotorSport New Zealand Feature Journalist of the Year award with his ‘Jack Brabham: a motor-racing legend’ article published in our July, 2014

The history of Meremere: part two

  “Kevin Shaw takes a look at how New Zealand’s oldest dedicated drag strip came to be, and gives thanks to those who made it all happen” A bit like

Aero warriors: three Nascar icons

  “The glory days of Nascar racing may never happen again, but that hasn’t stopped one dedicated Auckland family from reliving them” From moonshine runners racing to get their fresh

Update: all good things take time

Back a few weeks we gave you a look into what the upholstery in one of Parkside Media’s senior management team’s Triumph TR6 looked like (see here). Well now we

Who is Mickey Thompson?

“We uncover who the man is behind one of the most legendary names the automotive world has ever seen” AJ Foyt, Don Garlits, Dan Gurney, Richard Petty, Parnelli Jones —

Whipped Up: Woolfy’s day out

As a well-known hero of Kiwi motorsport, Alan Woolf has been around for a while, and every now and then you’ll see him out at a track with one of his classics. I got

All good things take time

How long would you put up with seats looking like this in your classic car? One of Parkside Media’s senior management team has finally, after fifteen years, decided the time

Queen of speed’s life in the fast lane

Not even a year since rewriting history and becoming New Zealand’s quickest and fastest female, Karen Hay’s quest for speed is still strong. View fullsize At the recent IHRA NZ Drag

NZV8 Concept Corner: show ’Stang

  “Every month we ask the cover car owner for the concept they’d most like to build, or see built” The gold ’65 Mustang envisioned by Nick Hall, and built

Howden Ganley’s road to Monaco

Prior to Christmas, Howden Ganley joined us at New Zealand Classic Car as we rolled his Lotus XI into our photo studio for the shoot that would eventually appear in

Land Rover’s amazing Valentine’s Day gift

Valentine’s Day 2015 presented four good friends with a slightly better gift than a box of Cadbury Favourites. As students of Otago University 15 years ago, Will Radford, Jeremy Wells,

Italian stallions in a shed of chickens

It’s a remarkable thing to think that someone would tackle the idea of making their own cars, let alone in their chicken shed in Oamaru. Rod Tempero has done just that,