Thanks for sharing those pics Nigel. I don't know anything about Boats but the guys who own the dealership where i work race boats, have for years. They are i think the current UIM World GP Hydroplane Champions.
Is that the Harrison"s?
Bondy, Did Grant recover okay from his accident?
Now that little boat 'Chindit', that is something else. Wouldn't mind a dollar for every race miles she has done.
Hi Gerard
In your Weekly Wanderings around the Way-Out and Wilder parts of Auckland's Wild West, did you ever notice a large greenish ? GM product permanently parked on the grass verge in Ferry Parade, Herald Island. It had the personalised plate "OBEASE", which seemed very appropriate, (i.e. "obese" on steroids). I had always intended to take a photo of it, before the grass grew too long around it, but it disappeared a couple of years ago.
Stu
The car was a mid 70's green "low rider" and was a massive four door tank with some quite fancy paintwork, parked outside a not quite so pristine dwelling... I saw it in a photo at the Beach Hop in Whangamata a few years back, but as you say its been absent from the island a year or two now and I didn't snap a photo either.
Heres a couple more Westie Waitakere pictures. The old graffiti covered 30's Ford V8 was scene around the Oratia/Henderson area parked in the same place for many years. I've also included a better pic of that wonderful Oldsmobile land yacht.
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Gerard, I think your `30s Ford V8 is a mid - late `30s Dodge, Plymouth, Desoto, etc.
Found this picture in a newspaper about 14 years ago,advertising ACC,have kept it ever since.Gets alot of comments. . . . Any one know more about this.
We have here a Jag 3.8 that - according to the writing on the back "hit marshalls post, back straight Pukekohe 1966?"
ID anyone - wasn't Dave S was it?