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  1. Yes, that white post was the marker for the left side of the course. The event is a trial based on the system run by the VSCC in the UK although with local variations. The idea is to get as far though each course as possible without stopping. There are numbered markers and the last one you pass is your score. Where the UK event travels to several properties our one is run one just one farm, which means we can run cars which are not road legal. Most of the competing vehicles are much modified small English cars - Austin 7s and Ford 10s. We run the Pontiac just for fun. It is mechanically completely stock - engine never rebuilt as far as I can work out - although it is getting quite tired. The engine has never been out of the chassis and the engine and gearbox have never been separated. It did break an axle a few years ago and while fixing it discover the axle that broke was an old time replacement and had a longitudinal crack in it. We also discovered the car had 3.82:1 Chevrolet rear end gears instead of the original Pontiac 4.10:1 gears. The event is usually run in July - our winter - and most years it is not too wet but in 2023 it was so wet we didn't bother going. The last photo was taken while packing up after the 2022 event. We first got the car running in 2011, when my two sons were still at school, and I did the driving but after a few years I let them take over the driving. Both sons learnt to handle a crash gearbox on that car - see photos. There was thought that one day the Pontiac might b come a street legal speedster but there are too many projects in the queue in front of it so it will remain as it is for now. The Pontiac makes a couple of appearances in this video -
  2. Mystery badge on the radiator. Rhineland registration plate.
  3. IMCDb.org: unknown in "The Evictors, 1979" IMCDb.org: "The Evictors, 1979": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles
  4. This '37 President Superior has been in NZ since new according to the funeral director's website - The Vehicles - Dempsey & Forrest Funeral Directors - Whanganui (dempseyandforrest.co.nz) I have no personal knowledge of the car.
  5. Maybe an ohv Northway six, as used by Oakland, Oldsmobile and Scripps-Booth.
  6. We put similar-looking kingpins in the '26 Pontiac a few years ago but I can't recall the size.
  7. This Empire was imported to NZ from Australia in 1999. It is registered as a 1913 Model 31. The Standard Catalog says for 1913 there was a Model 25 (25hp) on a 104" wheelbase, and a Model 31 (23hp) on a 108" wheelbase. Both models only came as touring cars. Maybe those quote power figures are developed, rather than the more normal for the time nominal horsepower. I would expect a 20+hp engine to be more than 3 litres. I have no information on engine dimensions but from the photo it is not very big. This 1913 roadster was presumably copied from photos of the 1910 roadster in The Standard Catalog. My photos from 2016. Note the very distinctive hubcaps.
  8. More here - Vintage Cars From British India Era - 6 Old Photos - Past-India
  9. Shot in India. It looks to be the low-price Model 75 - short wheelbase and small wheels - but I can't find a match for the combination of mouldings on the hood and valance, along with the grease nipple position.
  10. Western Australia. I think the car is an Oldsmobile. Likely wearing a body built by Holdens.
  11. Our 1926 Pontiac is on Motor Wheel discs. It was assembled in New Zealand, and at a guess, was originally a two-door coach. Going by the parts book contemporary Chevrolets used Baker disc wheels, which were also available for Pontiacs. I must try and dig the relevant parts book out. The other photo is a 1928 Pontiac in New Zealand back in the day. I think the photo is not really clear enough to say for certain which disc wheels it is on.
  12. A neighbour restored this 1927 Oakland roadster in the 2000s. It was originally a roadster but the body was gone and he had to build the body from scratch.
  13. Yes, but there is the oval Oakland logo on the hubcaps.
  14. It appears to be a lower price American six from circa 1922-24. It might have wood felloes which would date it to earlier, though the drum lights suggest not before 1922.
  15. My answer to the question is no, and what defines an English yacht trunk I don't know. More common are what were generally referred to as steamer trunks which were quite common back in the day. I think construction methods varied. This one came with my Studebaker, and probably dates from the post WW2 era. It has obviously seen quite a lot of use. Sitmar Line was an Italian operation that ran a fairly frequent service between Europe and New Zealand. The label inside is almost comical. The trunk is not really automotive but has been used once so far - on an event in June 2023 which included some back roads. The suitcase strapped on top is from the same era. It will likely be used in a few weeks when we take the car up to Napier (about 400 miles away) to the Art Deco festival being held in the town where the car began its NZ life in 1930. The pic is a photographer's proof.
  16. A circa 1927 Velie in Australia back in the day. Probably never a common sight anywhere.
  17. From Richard Quinn - "The truck is a '37 model J20M. The trailer was custom built by Shelbro of East Peoria, Illinois for the K-M company (Knapp-Monarch) of St Louis, MO. Shelbro was short for Shelm Brothers. One of the Shelms was the head custodian at East Peoria High School that I attended in the 1950s. The observation compartment in front could sleep four and the unit was manned when on the road by a chauffeur and cook. K-M made electric irons and various other household items."
  18. I presume this is Ralph DePalma in the same V12 Packard that he ran 149 mph at Daytona Beach in 1919.
  19. There are I think only two known survivors of this model. One is in a museum in the UK, and one lives here in NZ, not too far from me. It was recently made mobile after a long term in storage and the guy who wrote the article in our club magazine about it reckons he is likely to be the only one of 'our' generation to have driven one. The body is pillarless which makes entry and exit easier.
  20. This one just turned up on a facebook page. Midday Saturday here and I am about to head to work and don't have time to clean up the photo at the moment but figured I would post it anyway. Something to ponder over the New Year break. Not that many American cars of that style to choose from. Not Croxton-Keeting. Distinctive three-quarter elliptic front springs.
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