Re: Top of the South Tour, NZ
Posted by Ozstatman On 2014/2/26 23:33:14
Thursday 27th February
Start of the Tour proper after last nights get-together and welcome dinner. Today it was off to the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre which is currently made up of a display of 20 WW1 aircraft of replicas, restorations and survivors. Four of which are flyable and many from the collection of Sir Peter Jackson(Lord of the Rings) together with an extensive related collection of WW1 flying memorabilia. After that walked over to the Omaka Classic Cars museum which contained British and Australian built cars, but NO Packards! My ride for the day, as a passenger, was a '36 Twelve Coupe Roadster with just over 39,000 miles on it. Apparently the original owner, a Texan, had put it aside after about only 4,000 miles and wasn't used much after that. The present owner rebuilt the engine and has put about 20,000 miles on it. The present owner also owns the '32 Twelve Dual Cowl Phaeton on the Tour, a Duesenberg which was in the museum in Wanaka as well as the '18 Fleetwood bodied Twin Six and many other cars.
Dave,
Speaking of the Fleetwood bodied Twin Six, the owner tells me it was bought out of the States probably about 20 years ago by an Aussie but it is not the one you referenced. Apparently the guy who bought it into Australia, along with a lot of other cars, under-declared their value and they were all confiscated and auctioned off by Australian Customs. After that it made it's way to NZ, where a partially done restoration was completed. It looks stunning!
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Start of the Tour proper after last nights get-together and welcome dinner. Today it was off to the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre which is currently made up of a display of 20 WW1 aircraft of replicas, restorations and survivors. Four of which are flyable and many from the collection of Sir Peter Jackson(Lord of the Rings) together with an extensive related collection of WW1 flying memorabilia. After that walked over to the Omaka Classic Cars museum which contained British and Australian built cars, but NO Packards! My ride for the day, as a passenger, was a '36 Twelve Coupe Roadster with just over 39,000 miles on it. Apparently the original owner, a Texan, had put it aside after about only 4,000 miles and wasn't used much after that. The present owner rebuilt the engine and has put about 20,000 miles on it. The present owner also owns the '32 Twelve Dual Cowl Phaeton on the Tour, a Duesenberg which was in the museum in Wanaka as well as the '18 Fleetwood bodied Twin Six and many other cars.
Dave,
Speaking of the Fleetwood bodied Twin Six, the owner tells me it was bought out of the States probably about 20 years ago by an Aussie but it is not the one you referenced. Apparently the guy who bought it into Australia, along with a lot of other cars, under-declared their value and they were all confiscated and auctioned off by Australian Customs. After that it made it's way to NZ, where a partially done restoration was completed. It looks stunning!
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