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.

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

Lyme, New Hampshire, USA. This is apparantly the largest private collection of Bugattis in the world. Virtually every type is represented short of the type 41 Royale, the value of which would exceed the total of this collection!

Lime Rock Park, Connecticut 3-6 September, 1999

Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, Vermont

North of San Francisco, California. This is one of the premier auto restoration businesses in the world. Not a place that time-wasting tire-kickers such as myself are generally welcome - all business is word-of-mouth and their address is not published. An acquaintance knew someone that used to work there and between dead reckoning navigation and selective name-dropping we were able to find them and be granted permission to wander through and snap some photos.

Basin Harbor Club, Panton, Vermont

Stowe Vermont

Mt. Equinox, Manchester, Vermont