Heading up to whangamata today , watch this space 

We cruised out to onemana beach for the park up …….

the gto was right hand drive . And the tac was moved to the right too !!!

Nitro funny car did 4 fire ups while we where there 

loved the cat !!!!

 

check out the owner behind the prefect , themed to her car 

this guy built a truck to match his bandit … super impressive 

over view for justA the entrants … 

1100 odd but we are sure they had more entered … there was twice this many cars not entered ! 

Edited March 22, 20242 yr by 64 kiwi boni

And a fish n chip lunch !!! With beer of course 

Great pics bro, thanks for sharing. Some awesome rides!!!

Cheers wrongway . Its been a fantastic day and had lots of fun catching up with lots of mates from all over nz !!!

beers are flowing and we are in for a fun night … I have more pics to post too 

Here’s some more from when we got back to Whangamata from the beach park up …. 

8 pm Williamson park we watched the jet dragster fire up ! 
Impressive and one hell of a way to kill weeds !!!!!!

Great shots kiwi. I'm not sure that anyone in the US would allow a flame thrower vehicle, much less a jet dragster to fire up on a grassy lawn, simply as a fire hazard, much less actually burn part of it. Someone would sue the organizers if they did, most likely.

Still great stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Edited March 22, 20242 yr by Frosty

Nice pics, great show with great weather! Thanks for sharing.

4 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Need to borrow this to do some cane toad population control  jk. 

I love the panel that identifies as green! Nice pics!

26 minutes ago, indymanjoe said:

I love the panel that identifies as green! Nice pics!

Joe did you spot the little picture on the tail gate of the same truck ? 

I have no idea what happened to my post from last night??? Should have been the 1st.  Greeat rides, thankz for sharing.  Your pine trees are very cool.  Awesome weather, safe trip home.

Nice pile of pics thanks Chris. Saves me the gas by not driving down to see them!

Oh this is justa cool!

And this, this is justa gangster as hell! I love it!!!! Thanks again for sharing bro.

On 3/23/2024 at 3:34 PM, KiwiStarChief said:

Nice pile of pics thanks Chris. Saves me the gas by not driving down to see them!

More than welcome Mate , glad to share, it was pretty full on , we walked miles !! but certainly had fun.

There was lots of cars that i know, but there was also a hell of a lot of new stuff that i hadnt seen !

my guess was 1100 entrants and probly around 3 times that number who came to look, like myself...!

 i must say the boat club does the best meals !!!! i had scotch fillet, beer battered oysters, and king prawns to die for !!!!!

i have some more pics to post of random stuff, we got out of there first thing sunday morning and stopped in Matamata for lunch 

 

The morning after …….

would this be called a jet car end trail ???? ..... but wait theres more !!!!!!!

 

Edited March 24, 20242 yr by 64 kiwi boni

And some Random pics from yesterday, we went to party at my good mates house where he had a band, justA aftere  11pm noise control turned up and shut us down ... all in all another super fun beach hop 

 

Edited March 24, 20242 yr by 64 kiwi boni

And this is when holden started using chevy engines !!!!

Edited March 24, 20242 yr by 64 kiwi boni

Man - AWESOME pics. That ol' Mack looks to be an ex Australian army vehicle. They were used for all sorts of things. I liked the Zephyr convertible. Were they ever a factory offering?

Years ago, I read about a general concern amongst US petrolheads that they were worried about the amount of US heritage (in the form of collectable cars) that was disappearing overseas. I think we now know where most of them ended up! For such a small country, you guys have the best stuff. 

You need a plumbing assistant, don't you? I'm ready.

Edited March 26, 20242 yr by Fitzy

Fitzy - while I agree with you that a large number of American collectibles are in the Lands Down Under, a sad reality is that many cars, mostly stolen, are illegally exported to Northern Europe or the Middle East.

A friend of mine owned Dodge Viper #9 (he personally gave Bob Lutz the keys to Viper #1). It was stolen from his summer vacation home in northern lower Michigan. They found the LoJack anti-theft device for the car in a dumpster in Atlanta, and figured it was probably put on a container ship bound for Sweden out of Miami.

13 hours ago, Fitzy said:

Man - AWESOME pics. That ol' Mack looks to be an ex Australian army vehicle. They were used for all sorts of things. I liked the Zephyr convertible. Were they ever a factory offering?

Years ago, I read about a general concern amongst US petrolheads that they were worried about the amount of US heritage (in the form of collectable cars) that was disappearing overseas. I think we now know where most of them ended up! For such a small country, you guys have the best stuff. 

You need a plumbing assistant, don't you? I'm ready.

I read yesterday that they had 2000 entrants at beach hop this year , and I guesstimate there was another 5000 that came to see them like I did ! We so dont enter because we don’t fancy sitting in hour long ques for each of the five days the event runs for

They certainly did factory built rag top Z cars mate 

there are 2 that I know of here in Taupo 

You apprentice plumber 

your funny Pete 

do you like crawling under buildings . Unblocking shit filled toilets 

melting ice off roofs so you can walk up them .   Yeah nah … 

Edited March 26, 20242 yr by 64 kiwi boni

7 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

I read yesterday that they had 2000 entrants at beach hop this year , and I guesstimate there was another 5000 that came to see them like I did ! We so dont enter because we don’t fancy sitting in hour long ques for each of the five days the event runs for

They certainly did factory built rag top Z cars mate 

there are 2 that I know of here in Taupo 

You apprentice plumber 

your funny Pete 

do you like crawling under buildings . Unblocking shit filled toilets 

melting ice off roofs so you can walk up them .   Yeah nah … 

Thinking about it ...... you would be perfect !!! then i dont have to do it !!! you can do the work, i will become management 

For a measly 50 NZ bucks an hour, I'm your man.

What's all this about snow & ice? I'm used to melting in extreme humidity, not having to have ice chipped off me if I stand still for too long.