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Vero Festival Visit
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.
We left for home at around 7.30 so we would miss the traffic heading out of Inglewood. The highway was closed and a detour was taken through Waitara where we expected to be able to get dinner. It was a bit of wishful thinking and best we could manage was a pie from the second service station we called into. Every eating place was closed from then on so it was just as well we had a pie. We arrived back in Rotorua just after midnight, very pleased that we had made the effort to go for a look and we had all had a great day out.
FOR SALE
1955 Wolseley 4/44
We have been contacted by Robin Wills, a Reporoa Dairy farmer who has owned a 1955 Wolseley 4/44 for the past 30 years. It was done up for a wedding approximately 20 years ago and it has been left in the sheds for the 20 years or so since.
He would like it to be passed on to a new keeper. He will consider swapping it for a good bike or lawnmower, but is also interested in any cash offers.
It apparently looks very tidy externally and was running a couple of months ago, but now needs a new coil. It is not registered so needs a full re-vin to get back on the roads.
If you have any interest you can call Robin Wills on 07 333 8452.
CLUB NIGHT - February 9th
Neil Hunt Park - 7.30pm Car In The Room: 1973 BMW 2002 Tii
Followed by tea and coffee.
February BBQ Run Sunday, 20th February Meet at the clubrooms at 10.00am.
At the completion of the run there will be a BBQ luncheon at the clubrooms. As with the High Tea run in December there will be no charge for the refreshments, but if you want to have something other than tea, coffee or juice with your lunch then please BYO.
Midweekers Wednesday, 23rd February by Jenny Cole Meet at the Clubrooms at 10am. We will leave at 10.30am for a visit to the Timberline Racing Siberian Husky Kennels which is located at 36 Kilkenny Way, Broadlands, Taupo. Steve and Taniya, the owners of Timberline Kennels, have 11 huskies. They will tell us about unique features of the breed and how to train and run a sled dog team. This will include a demonstration of driving a team. The programme will take about an hour and a half to two hours. We will then have a picnic lunch at the kennels. (The kennels provide a cup of tea, but bring your own food.) The cost for the visit is $27pp. We will be the only guests at the property. As the kennels allow non-vaccinated guests (many of their visitors are children who are not yet vaccinated), it means numbers have to be restricted to 25. I am afraid we will have to stick to this limit and accept members on a first come first served basis.
