Vero Festival Visit
by Neville Harper
Dennis Whimp, Roger Nelson and myself made an executive decision to travel down to Inglewood for a day trip down to the street party on the Thursday of the Vero Rally. The rally entrants had 3 route choices on Thursday. Two routes took them to Stratford for the day and the third choice (for the ones with longer legs) took them to Whangamomona. The cars all had to be back at Inglewood for the street party before 4pm where they had closed off the main street until 8pm for the cars to park in. We arrived around 3.30pm so had the opportunity to see all of the cars assemble in the school grounds waiting to be let into the main street. There was approximately 550 entrants and what a great sight it was seeing such an amazing and diverse range of cars on the rally. All of the entrants that we spoke to had thoroughly enjoyed every part of the festival.
Well, the main street had a band playing, a huge range of food vendors, all of the shops remained open and of course had all of the cars parked in it. It was closed off to anyone without a vaccine pass. Once again it was a fantastic display of all sorts of makes and models which made checking them out really interesting. Crowds of people turned out to enjoy the street party. As you can see in the pictures there lots of people came for a look. They certainly dodged a bullet with NZ going into “red” on the following Sunday night so it was great that the event was able to go ahead. 8
Side Curtains February 2022
