2009 Hawkswood Festival of Speed. North Canterbury, New Zealand

The Skope Classic 2009 Ruapuna Park, Christchurch, New Zealand

2008 Hawkswood Festival of Speed. North Canterbury, New Zealand

24 February 2008, North Hagley Park, Christchurch. Paul Kelly Motors sponsors a park-up at Hagley followed by a parade to New Brighton.

1st February, 2008. This year the Can-Am cars were the special attraction

26 October, 2007. Annual ride from Christchurch, New Zealand to Akaroa. Eligible bikes must have old-style girder forks, which limits it to mostly pre-WWII machines.

31 August - 3 September Lime Rock Park, Connecticut. My second time to this event, this time with new bride in tow. We camped on the infield in a friend's '67 VW bus and had a great time.

My second trip here - they rotate the cars and have special exhibits, so I only saw a handful of cars twice.

8 April Sumner, New Zealand. Vehicles lined up on the esplanade.

3rd and 4th February 2007 Ruapana Raceway, Canterbury, New Zealand. It's funny, seems the more I go to this event (this is my fifth), the more pictures I take in the carpark... You get a lot of people bringing the same cars back year after year to compete, so the paddock can tend to look familiar to the photographer. There are always good reasons to come back each year, of course.

Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. Good collection of police vehicles and fire appliances. Sadly all the fire appliances are kept outdoors.

4 February 2006 Ruapuna Raceway, Canterbury, New Zealand

Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia 17 September, 2006. Aussie legend Peter Brock was to be guest of honour but was sadly killed a couple of weeks before this event. A parade of his former cars were present.

5 and 6 February 2005 Ruapuna Raceway Canterbury, New Zealand

Several dozen old cars, trucks, and tractors slowly disintegrating into the Canterbury plains.

22 August 2004 Pioneer Stadium Christchurch, New Zealand

Ruapuna Raceway, Canterbury New Zealand 31 January and 1 February 2004

Held to celebrate 100 years of the tractor in New Zealand. 14 March, 2004. Kirwee, Canterbury, New Zealand

An indoor boy-racer show, with displays, dancing skinny girls, dyno competition, and stereo soundoff.

March 2004 Christchurch, New Zealand. Open to veteran automobiles and motorbikes provided they have no front brake.

Ruapuna Raceway Canterbury, New Zealand February 2003

26 January 2003 Rangiora Canterbury, New Zealand

Pioneer Stadium, Christchurch, New Zealand 24 August, 2002

Sponsored by the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand Mclean's Island, Christchurch, New Zealand 3 November 2002

30th March 2002 Ruapuna Raceway, Christchurch, New Zealand

Los Angeles, California 13 April 2002

Mt. Equinox, Manchester, Vermont 9 June 2001

Nichols field, Stowe, Vermont USA 11 August 2001

Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, Vermont 16 July 2000

Also known as the thatlook.com 300 New Hampshire International Speedway, Loudon, New Hampshire 9 July 2000

Lyme, New Hampshire, USA. Noted neurosurgeon and Bugatti collector Dr. Peter Williamson died in June 2008. HIs collection, save the Atlantic Coupe and a T57, were sold at auction by Gooding and Company for US$15.5 million. A large chunk of that money went to medical foundations. It's worth noting that every one of these cars was "on the button", and used frequently.

Lime Rock Park, Connecticut 3-6 September, 1999