Kumeu Classic car festival

Just a quick post, The photos are from the recent Kumeu classic car festival just out of Auckland , New Zealand. Ive been attending this event for many years, It just gets bigger and bigger all the time.

Enjoy the photos.

Boys day out.

Last weekend was the annual speedshow exhibition, A great day out for the boys in Auckland. This year had a line-up of cars and motorcycles - new, performance, classic and customs.

This year's event saw Speedshow fill to capacity with three main halls of the showgrounds, and an extensive outdoor display and activities to add to the attractions for the speed lovers. And the new children's area called Speedshow 4 Kids proved very popular with Roary the Racing Car shows at 10am and 12pm each day.

Some of New Zealand’s best drift cars were alongside historic racing cars and bikes and New Zealand’s best race car simulators.There were new cars and motorcycles from some of the world’s leading manufacturers and exhibitors with a wide range of motoring and motorsport-related products and services, but honestly there’s too much to mention so if you like cars and motorbikes, Speedshow was the place to be.

This year's key draw-cards included the world's fastest NASCAR and the original movie Batmobile from the original Batman movies courtesy of Warner Brothers Movie World on the Gold Coast, The motorbike from the movie "The worlds fastest Indian" as well as the world famous Britten motorbike.

The oldest exhibit was a 1903 Ford that cost 180 pounds when brand-new while nearby was a DTM-spec Mercedes Benz AMG supercar, one of only 100 in the world that cost well over $500,000 new.

This event has only been running 3 years in New Zealand and has already moved venue because of space, It doubles in size every year so next years event should be better again.

Top photo is my 5 year old son with former superbike rider, Aaron Slight.
2nd Photo is the bike from the movie "Worlds fastest Indian"

Ellerslie car show 2009

I had many requests from my recent post entitled Rod and custom weekend for pictures of some of New Zealands old classic cars aswell as some supercars etc so i thought i would post some pictures from the ellerslie car show a couple of weeks ago.

If anybody wants full size and full resolution pictures, Please contact me.

Rod and Custom Weekend

On the weekend of January 17th and 18th, I took the wife and our four children to the annual swap-meet/hot rod and custom car show in Kumeu which is North West of Auckland (New Zealand).

It’s an event we try to attend every year, It gets bigger and better every year. This year was no exception, The quality of cars was outstanding so I thought I would share some of the photos that I took.

I hope you enjoy them, If anybody would like photos of any specific Hot rods, Street rods, Customs etc, Please contact me through my contact link and i will see what I have that I can send you.