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Americarna 2012
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 10:01 PM
Just got back from NZ.
Here are some shots from Americarna this year at New Plymouth.
What's that Torana doing there?
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Here are some shots from Americarna this year at New Plymouth.
What's that Torana doing there?
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 10:07 PM
More photos here:
http://www.facebook....20613641&type=1
Will post more pics when I can.
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 05:12 AM
Thank's for the pics Stephen. Love the black Willy's coupe.
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 05:57 AM
The last lot of photos were taken at Opunake beach, the cars drive out to different destinations each day.
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Those rubber blocks on the front of the State Troopers car,looks lie the Go in some of our peak hour traffic here in Brisbane
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Posted 05 March 2012 - 07:29 PM
The cars took a drive to Stratford.
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:58 AM
Cool pics, there is a whole heap up on the NZV8 website too. What did you think of your trip to godsown? Go tripping round the place?
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:30 AM
Go tripping round the place?
I sure did. I took your advice and spent our time in Auckland on the north shore, we stayed at the Spencer on Byron at Takapune and had a great view of both Lake Pupuke and the beach.
We drove down to Rotorua spent a night there at the Novotel, had a great view of the lake - I find if you ask early to give you the best view possible they do accommodate.
We then drove to Otorohanga to visit the kiwi house, then off to the Waitomo Caves then drove to New Plymouth that night, spent 5 days at the Copthorne.
From New Plymouth we drove to Wellington and spent a night there, it was much cooler there but sunny and pleasant, stayed at the Copthorne there and possibly had the best view of the bay.
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 07:46 AM
Glad you enjoyed yourself, lots of your facebook photos remind me of alot of places I grew up (Otaki, bout an hour north of Wellington and near Waitomo). The wellington copthorne is also nice, I have stayed there before. I see you got an FG XR6 for the trip. I've just had my father in laws one for the last week and racked up a few hundred kays. Must say I was rather impressed with in and shows alot of improvement over his BA.
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 08:02 AM
I had initially booked the Toyota Aurion, by all reviews I've read it's better. When I got to Thrifty they told me they upgraded me to the XR-6.
An upgrade is business speak for "we hired out what you booked to another customer so that his business didn't go to our competition. For getting in earlier, here have our better option that was lying around unhired".
I was looking forward to see how the Aurion is but the Ford was still pretty good. Petrol at $2.22 per litre yikes!! Although the AUD was doing very well at 1.25 NZD.
There was a lot more of NZ I would've liked to have seen at the places we stayed but our time was limited.
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An upgrade is business speak for "we hired out what you booked to another customer so that his business didn't go to our competition. For getting in earlier, here have our better option that was lying around unhired".
I was looking forward to see how the Aurion is but the Ford was still pretty good. Petrol at $2.22 per litre yikes!! Although the AUD was doing very well at 1.25 NZD.
There was a lot more of NZ I would've liked to have seen at the places we stayed but our time was limited.
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Petrol at $2.22 per litre yikes!! Although the AUD was doing very well at 1.25 NZD.
Tell me about it....
There was a lot more of NZ I would've liked to have seen at the places we stayed but our time was limited.
Come to the south island next time, its about 10x better than the north, you will not regret it...
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 08:29 AM
I really do want to check out the South Island. If the next Americarna is there I'll try to make it.
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