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

Colin Waite

SMooth operatoR • Having built a reputation for technologically brilliant and inspirational design the Mazda management team, which always dared to be different, decided to take its new engine into the mainstream market and take on the fuel crisis of the early ’70s at the same time. It almost worked

EARTHQUAKE Survivor • Graceful and timeless styling clothed nothing more exotic than standard Beetle running gear, but the Karmann Ghia became a cult hit and is a highly sought-after classic today

THE ORANGE Panther • The De Tomaso captures the essence of the ’70s, when a free-wheeling entrepreneur could create their own Italian thoroughbred with a practical twist that only enhances their appeal today

YESTERDAY’S hero • We take a look at two S-Class Mercedes-Benzes, both the top of the line at the time, to see what they have in common and what, besides a doubling in engine size over the intervening years, sets them apart

Setting THE STANDARD • The W111 and W112 Mercedes S-class helped shape the ’60s and established the firm’s legacy as a global luxury brand

THE FINISHING Touch • The popularity of pinstriping has waxed and waned in accordance with the diktats of fashion but to some pinstriping remains as essential as icing on a cake

Part three: The golden triangle • Vaughan Wilson completes his trio of tales, making the most of our confinement to our own backyard and suggesting great road trips you and your classic can take together

Automotive art, New Zealand style • Patrick Harlow pays tribute to the many creative and determined Kiwis who have had a clear idea of what a sports car could be, decided they could do it better than the big boys, and built them for themselves and like-minded customers

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Gathering no moss • Best known for his exploits with engines, some of Ray Stone’s best work was with people, putting rallying on the map in New Zealand — which led to his two-volume ode to New Zealand’s backroads

WHEN NEW ZEALAND BUILT THE FORD MODEL T • When there were still more horses in service than cars the Ford Model T brought affordable motoring to New Zealand. At one time no fewer than three local factories were assembling the ‘Car of the Century’ here

Not the retiring type • Most Flashback articles celebrating octogenarians have to roll back the decades to glimpse their time on the track. That’s emphatically not the case for ‘King Kenny’

SHAUN SHARES HIS LIFELONG PASSION FOR JDM CARS

Ethanol — coming to a service station near you

Classic Garage

A Busy Leitch Garage

MOTORSPORT NZ AWARD FOR BARRY LEITCH

Readers’ Writes

THE ENDURING APPEAL OF A GENUINE 4WD • Small but mighty, our man found this LJ80 in Blighty where the drive to electric vehicles is destroying front lawns

THE WEIRD WORLD OF EVS

CHAMPAGNE MOTORING — NOT FOR LAYING DOWN...