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June Midweekers
leather. It came with a bolt on hardtop also in immaculate condition. It has had a sports car type steering wheel fitted, the only non standard item on the car.
We also got several boxes of spares including replacement lights, electric window mechanisms and motors and a complete new soft top. Our Ghia version has a 1.6ltr DOHC, EFI engine, develops 100 Kw and has a five speed manual gearbox. Performance and handling are great and it is a fun car to drive. Having power steering makes it as good as any modern day driver, something we both like. Although the car has done just under 250,000kms it drives like new.
JUNE MIDWEEKERS - ROTORUA’S RAILWAYS
by Ronald Mayes What a great turnout for the short run which I had organised! 20 members and 3 friends/neighbours, 9 club cars and only 4 moderns. I told them a (very) little about the now-closed Putaruru - Rotorua branch and directed them through town, pointing out where railway locations of interest had been or were still visible, and on to Pukehangi Rd.
There we visited fellow railway modeller Brett Bodle who demonstrated his magnificent layout depicting Rotorua, Ngongotaha, Tarukenga and Mamaku as it was in the 1950s and early 1960s. Too many people in the double garage in which the layout is housed to take any photographs of it (I will have to go back to do that).
I had to drag them away to drive on to the lunch venue, the Rotorua Golf Club’s café where the caterers were a little overwhelmed by our numbers but rose to the occasion, had us housed at long tables in the bar, and were pleased by our support of the club (Gloria’s idea - she is long-time member). Time for only one photo of some of the cars parked at the lunch venue, and everyone headed home.
