North Shore Rod and Custom Club Swapmeet

North Shore Rod & Custom hold a twilight swapmeet at their clubrooms once a year. Its an okay event as far as swappers go, but for me I just really enjoy the social side.

Stragglers Cambridge

This was the first time we'd been to this event. I had heard good things about it so we braved a wet start in Auckland to give it a go. I'm glad we did go as the weather fined up in Cambridge and the event turned out to be every bit as good as we had heard.

We pulled in and parked and went for a wander about. When we got back to the Coupe another row of cars had been parked and look who should be directly opposite. Our previous car "Rose" the Rambler!






This car is owned by a guy by the name of Willy. The car is actually out of the same moulds as mine. It was good to see a finished one but looking at it you realise how much wirk is still ahead of me.



This boat was wicked. V8 powered of course. I'd love one of these behind the hot rod. Seriously cool.



Something for the kids.


This car is one of the giveaway cars for Beach Hop 2010. It had just been completed and this was its first outing.

Taupiri Swapmeet

This was the first time I'd been to this swap meet. It was a nice day out and the swappers had some good stuff. I still reckon the more rural it is the better the swap meet. I'd certainly go back again.









They also had a Windsor powered V8 Chainsaw. About 3 seconds to get through the log. Impressive and sounded great too!




Little did I know when I took this photo that later on when I sold the steel rims the Coupe was running on that the owner of this car would buy them to use on this Willys.