John was testing one of the new Land Rover Discovery’s and we thought we would pull out the Land Rover series III that in the workshop for a side by side comparison of Old and New. Things have certainly changed over the years.
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The road into this story is a long and winding one, which begins when three of the Muir brothers — Tony, Neville, and Guy — began developing a 121-lot subdivision in Ngaio, Wellington, in 1970. Tony initially owned a 1965 Land Rover, and, in 1968, he and Guy purchased two new Austin Gipsys, originally designed as competitors to the Landy. In 1976, the brothers replaced the Gipsys with two new Toyota Land Cruisers (these days referred to as ‘FJ40s’), and, in 1978, the three brothers
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A cool little project getting close to completion ….a humble Anglia, it had been a long-term dream of the owner to have a “Harry Potter” Anglia as a classic everyday runner. The client wanted the original interior kept in it’s aged condition so that the car didn’t have that “over restored” look, but the body work and paint needed to be as new. The colour combination is original and certainly compliments the period look which will have cream wheels with white wall tyres when it
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Ben hard at work on the Wolseley, carefully hand stripping the body shell back to bare steel to make it ready for rust killing and etch primer
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The mog is almost ready to head home, just a couple more final checks before we wave goodbye. A couple of final checks when she gets back to the workshop, and then its over to the lucky owner, and the road trip home.
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We have a younger lady in the workshop this week. And the whole team really like her.
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Its hard to see, but there are 3 kombi’s in this picture, and thats not even all of the models we have in right now. Four different generations of kombis all in, getting a new lease of life so that can continue to give their owners many more years of enjoyment.
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This bright red toy truck is all ready to go. The owner and surgery team are very happy with the final results, and we all cant wait to see it get it feet dirty with some good old fashioned off-roading.
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Some damage repaired to this amazing Rolls Royce Phantom, its a good job our paint booth is build for cars of all sizes, as this thing is huge.
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Another baby leaves before Christmas…..big effort from our team. Great work guys on this 1958 Austin Healey Sprite.
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One of the many kombi campers We have on the go at the moment. Finished a full restoration inside and on this one and it headed home today. There are two kombis in this photo BTW!
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When David Burke-Kennedy went to visit the owner of this beautifully restored Triumph Herald, he was surprised in more ways than one. You can’t help smiling when you reach the end of the long driveway to Andrew Cowsill’s pristine 19th-century house. His shinier-than-new 1968 Triumph Herald sits beaming proudly in front of it — as if to upstage the beautifully restored and landscaped villa. If this was being written for a classic house, garden, and car magazine, you’d be hard-pressed to know which to focus
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This Rover SD1 has been part of Michael Ahie’s family since his grandfather drove it o the showroom floor over 30 years ago. He shares the story of returning the Rover to its former glory The bright-metallic-green Rover SD1 looked like something from outer space — well, it did to me when I first saw it at the end of our driveway with my grandfather at the wheel. Growing up in a small rural community in Taranaki in the 1970s, my grandfather’s new Rover SD1
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