If you are an old car buff, love beautiful scenery and friendly people, and want to visit a place where they speak English and you can drink the water, then New Zealand is the place for you. These are classics from various events in the land down under, the land down under.
A friend and I stuffed ourselves into my Lilliputian 1966 Morris Minor convertible and headed south to take part in the annual Beach Hop cruise and show held in March. When we arrived, we slipped into the procession through town and were sandwiched between a 1964 Pontiac GTO and a 1968 Olds 442 with their headers uncorked. We were part of the parade in the resort town of Whangamata in New Zealand, and seeing two big guys (6’2” 210 lbs.) in such a tiny car between a couple of huge yank tanks got a lot of laughs.
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