NZ Classic Car

NZ Classic Car – New Zealand’s longest running classic car magazine – celebrated its 200th edition in August 2007, an amazing achievement for a publication which began as a simple idea to put local classic car owners in touch with event organisers, car clubs and trade professionals. NZ Classic Car has been a vital part of the local motoring scene for more than 20 years and features unique and extensive classic motoring coverage. NZCC’s enthusiastic and passionate writers cover the length and breadth of the country ensuring extensive classic motoring coverage. Our coverage of New Zealand’s motoring heritage remains unrivalled, especially in the field of motorsport history, plus we include stunning photography, authoritative features and event reports from throughout the country.

NZ Classic Car

A different year

Tribute to the Master • When Ferrari decided to build a special-edition car and name it after ‘il Commendatore’ — Ferrari’s famously irascible boss — it put the acid on itself to produce something very special indeed

Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari

The Jowett Jupiter turns 70 • The Jowett Jupiter leapt to fame with a lot of the right ingredients, including racing success, but this classic ’50s British sports car was in production for just three years, and only 850 were built

SOUTHERN COMFORT • For many Kiwi petrolheads, there can be few more satisfying moments than slipping behind the wheel of a classic Aussie or American muscle car and turning the key to hear a well-sorted V8 settle into idle — especially if it recalls a Bathurst champion

PROPER WEDGE • Fancy a ‘wind in your hair’ sports car? Forget mass-market models and floppy old roadsters. Get something designed from the get-go as a pure, individualistic sports car

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FIVE DECADES OF EXCELLENCE • There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of the Ellerslie Classic Car Show. Sleek lines, curvaceous shapes, whitewall tyres, the smell of natural leather, and fresh car polish take us back to a time when cars, like most things in modern life, were less complicated — and all the better for it

THE AWARDS

TAANSDM TAINN TOP TRIUMPHS • Our modest hero, vies with the world’s best in the Tasman Series, switches to touring cars, and becomes the first Kiwi to podium at Bathurst

Dixon – a better Lotus • Colin Chapman famously put little time and effort into designing the Lotus Seven. David Dixon took it to the next level but earned little of the fame

THE CAR THAT WON THE WAR • As well as being rugged, the Jeep had to be light enough to be manhandled out of sticky situations. Those damaged in World War II’s Pacific Theatre were shipped here to be rebuilt and sent back to war

Formula 5000 to the fore • Fifty years ago, Kiwi fans tuned into the new V8 open-wheelers; our scribe also salutes two other giants of the sport

Datsuns Galore • Terry Inder’s garage betokens one man’s crusade to preserve New Zealand’s Datsun heritage

Readers’ Writes

Ex-rental largesse doomed to fail • Worrying developments in the pipeline!

Classic Garage

FAST FIX WITH MEGUIAR’S HYBRID CERAMIC LIQUID WAX

CLASSIC CAR AUCTION BUSINESS TAKES OFF • Reflections on the classic car auction market here and where Northern Hemisphere sales show it could go

GIANT SLAYER • The fun-per-dollar quotient is already high and, with a sorted body, that fun will only get more valuable as time goes on

RECORD-BREAKING WEBB’S AUCTION DRAWS THE BUYERS • Buyers were humming at the Webb’s December collectors’ car auction in Auckland, with strong sales for the country’s largest ever offering of classic cars

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