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    A great first effort!!!

    Hello Autogeek Online Family.

    This past weekend there was an event held in my home town I guess you could liken it to the ‘Cars & Coffee’ style gathering of vehicles. Although there is great success for annual charity car displays & the likes locally, there hasn’t been the same success for a more frequent get together.

    I think this is partly due to timing of such events but this time I think the organisers have it dialed in. 8am to 11am on the first Sunday of every month.

    Talking with the organiser prior to the day (bear in mind that my town has a population of around 30,000) he was going to be happy with a minimum of 25 cars & over the moon with 40. By 11am there was 105 cars & about 8 bikes & everyone was having a blast. Great walking around & talking cars . . . Car care, & life in general.

    We got involved with putting together a prize pack (which I was given the duty of choosing who received it) from the shop & promotion via our Facebook page.

    All in all I think this was a great event, even if it wasn’t the first one there was plenty to see & lots of folks to talk with. I’m pretty confident the numbers will grow by double by Month 3. I’ll leave you guys with a few pictures of the day, enjoy.


    The prize pack I put together.




    The car - Ford Falcon GT I chose as the winner. This car was a stunner!





    The Details Dub captured heading in to the event.





























































    Thank you all for having a look.


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    Re: A great first effort!!!

    Congrats on the turnout, looks like you had a bunch of interesting cars there.
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    Re: A great first effort!!!

    Very cool! I absolutely love all the different types of hot rods you have over there vs here in the states.
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    Re: A great first effort!!!

    A couple rotories and a Ford Sierra Cosworth. . .WOW A great first effort!!!

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    Re: A great first effort!!!

    Wow what an awesome bunch of cool and beutieful looking cars! Nice that the people showed up. Your prize bag was a great put together.

    Liked that green flatnose custom truck!

    Thanks for shareing this Aaryn!

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    Re: A great first effort!!!

    some nice rides there. workmanship looks awesome to. Is that red 70 vehicle an elcamino ? not sure if it's a chevy or gmc. thanks for the pics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hmardown View Post
    some nice rides there. workmanship looks awesome to. Is that red 70 vehicle an elcamino ? not sure if it's a chevy or gmc. thanks for the pics.
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    Great to hear it exceeded expectations! Thanks for sharing it. Some great looking rides.

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    Re: A great first effort!!!

    Awesome pics! Thanks for sharing! NZ has some very cool cars!

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    Re: A great first effort!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Klasse Act View Post
    A couple rotories and a Ford Sierra Cosworth. . .WOW A great first effort!!!

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    Thank you Klasse Act.

    Yeah, that Sierra Cosworth was a smart car. In my younger days I took care of two identical 'MoonstoneBlue' Cosworths both owned by the same guy . . . at the same time. Awesome cars.

    The Rotary scene here in New Zealand is massive. I myself have had a few, even built a '73 RX3 Coupe many years ago & won 27 trophies at shows with that car. Never trailered it, always drove it like it was stolen. (as you should with a Rotary) There is a big Rotary meet coming up in the diary here too - RE-union is a great event & normally attracts a good couple of hundred cars.

    The blue 808/RX3 wagon in the pictures is in the diary for detailing for this event too. Also quite a special car in NZ. Not sure how many folks here will have heard of Mike Whiddett or 'Mad Mike Whiddett' he's right up there in the sport of drifting & this car was his street car (skid car) back in the early days before drifting took off. A local guy came across the car in a far different state . . . found out it used to belong to Mad Mike & set about rebuilding it exactly the same as Mike had it in the early 90's.

    Appreciate you comments my friend.

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