You’re doing a great job for the New Zealand tourism industry. The sign showing distances to other world locations mentioned Bluff and after consulting my Atlas I see that Bluff is at the bottom of South Island, so there’s your target Ian, a mere 1452km away. 😂
@@TheDotBot It does seem strange to refer to a communist-bloc car as 'beautiful' in relation to its fellow, but in this case, yes. Skoda always showed vastly more design flair than other east European makers. Excepting Tatra, whose chief engineer was behind the MB 1000......
@@paulstandeven8572 Idk, the Tatra 603 had quite an imposing aesthetic, even if it didn't quite carry over into the MB 1000. The older Wartburg 311 looked nice (similar kind of style to the old Octavia), unlike their uncompromisingly bland and ugly successor, the 353, which was surprisingly comfy if you didn't mind the two-stroke smell.
Good to see Winston Mathews looking so well! . He and his brother were customers of mine when I ran a workshop there a few decades ago! and I even have a picture of me as a 8 year old with the 1927 Chev. And Yes a real Nash theme ,they have some later model ones and Buicks too. I was born in the King country (Waikato ) but the far North has always been a favorite part of NZ. An Australian,Norman" wizard" Smith attempted to break the world land speed record on 90 mile beach .Unsuccessfully as it happened but it's a great Story.
Superlative stuff! Like millions of others back in Blighty, I can't afford holidays these days, so thank you for sharing yours with me, doing just what I would do if I were touring round NZ again. As I missed it on my roadtour of North Island decades back, I'd always wondered what the Northland Peninsula was like - well now I know! I've had a few beach drives over the years, notably near Formby/Southport in Lancs in a Leyland Sherpa camper van and many miles along the Northern Ireland coast at Benone Beach on a motorbike (Big signs nowadays banning it now, sadly) Glad you didn't get stuck in the sand, and considerately washed the lovely loaner BX with a spray gun afterwards for the owner.
Another excellent video of your travels around New Zealand. Right-hand drive Chevrolet Bel Air, museum, spectacular scenery and a drive on a beach in the BX, so much in one video. I'm sure there many other subscribers to your channel who like myself appreciate the sheer number of videos you've uploaded of your New Zealand adventures, thank you Ian.
Ian got a taste of his own medicine with the caravan overtake. I bet the driver was saying "Oh look, I bet that's a tourist, holding things up as usual" 😂
Great to see you having fun. That Austin A60 van took me back, my Dad traded in his gorgeous Wolseley 6/110 against a grey A60 van..I was a very unhappy little person.
1956 Chevrolet Bel Air 4dr sedan. These were built in Oshawa, Ontario as CKD kits for export to the Commonwealth countries. They are always 4 doors & were built as RHD not converted. Local paint codes & interiors were used. Production numbers were in the low thousands. Convertibles, coupes etc weren't available any you see are American imports. These were marketed as large family cars.
That’s just an amazing museum! Wow I’d be lost in there for hours, lovely to see so much preserved history there! Love the beach driving too! Great video
You jammy jammy man Seabrook. What a beautiful brown 1970s Jaguar XJ series 2. Can't think why Jaguar bothered updating the XJ6 or replacing it for that matter. I think it looks as modern today as it did 40 years ago. They could have just kept building this design in my Hubnut view. I remember reading in CAR magazine that Jaguar tested a 6 cylinder diesel in the Series 3 in the 80s. Don't know the engine manufacturer but decades before the 2.7 twin turbo V6 diesel of today's Jags. Carry on tantalising us Lad. Chevy Bel Air, love it. Top Man. Never mind the epic view, thon BX is epic son.
In my humble opinion, this is one of the best HubNut videos ever! So much content. Well done Sir. And looks like you will have plenty of photos to go through to choose for next year's HubNut calendar (Yes, I have my 2020 one)!
I drove my Hillman Super Minx along 90 Mile Beach on the hard sand at low tide in the summer of 1982. What a great drive .... mile after mile of desolate beach and pounding surf.
This museum immediately reminds me of a similar museum in the Netherlands in the town of Langeboom, the collection of Wim van Schayik. What beautiful roads and scenery to drive through with your car.
The variety in the Matthews Vintage Collection could have kept me there all day. The more you show of New Zealand the more I want visit the country, its a spectacular naturally beautiful place.
Gosh it's just one stunning view after another, loved the meeting of the oceans and that delightful bygone museum. Then there was (not) 90 mile beach, how you spoil us Mr H
Have never seen or heard you so relaxed, so happy, so chilled. You even talk with a care-free attitude. Now you know why the Brits came to NZ and Australia and never went back. 🌄
Never saw an Assie 2.0 in NZ. I remember a single ex UK RS2000 in Wellington. Most NZ escorts were 1.3 L models. They never had the Popular. They only had the 1,6 as a 2 door sport until the last few years with the Giha models.
@@andrewthompsonuk1 they were fairly uncommon. Probably brought in as a private import. Saw the occasional four door Aussie RS2000 with a droop snoot. I used to drive a '79 1600 Sport, incredibly thirsty and not a lot of bang for the buck.
ahh, my former years were thick with pinto and pushrod escorts, did my apprenticeship at Pecocks of Balham RS md, and a Loughborough junction railway arch... and a machine shop at Brans hatch
So beautiful! had no idea New Zealand was so amazing! Thank goodness you knew better and didn’t splash in the sea while driving 90 mile beach. So many northerners do at Daytona Beach Fl. Few months later serious rust problems.
What a trip. Interesting museum with the pianola that reminded me so much of visits to Aunty Joyce and Uncle Ron with me playing their pianola and everyone singing along, oh the nostalgia! The 90 mile beach! What! How brilliant, except you were overtaken by a caravan, those reckless hoons! I believe that most '90 mile' beaches are less than 90 miles :-(. I found it so hard to stay on the road and look at the scenery at the same time over there. I began to get sick of the constant corners and I normally love corners. Best views yet I think. Cheers.
Remember my first trip to the South Island, went on a motorbike. Yes you get a little tired of the stunning landscape, after making many stops to look at views and take photos. You get to the point where you don't bother even turning your head to see them. A number of times I said to myself there's a lovely lake & mountain to my left but keep going because you need to get to the next town. The road south of Queenstown was a notable highlight along with the water colour around Mt Cook.
Why not travelling New Zealand? I put some money into my safe every month which is just for holidays. I´s amazing what you can save in 18 months. For me, from Germany to NZ is app. 750 Euro one way.
The 'bobbing' effect as you're walking around the museum made the whole experience feel like a bizarre 'Doom' level. Thankfully you were spared demonic interference, though the pianola is arguably suspect...
What an amazing museum! Should be called "The Matthews Museum of absolutely everything"! And I bet that Chevy the curator drives would be worth an absolute fortune in the UK. The more I see of New Zealand, the more incredible it looks. How much you're enjoying yourself really comes across. The fact that you filmed on what was supposed to be a day off speaks volumes. I really enjoyed the Croatia videos and this trip is shaping up to be even better! Superb work Sir!
Thanks I'm really enjoying being taken along on your journey of exploration. Great combo of relaxed vibes, lovely scenery, mild surprises. Marvellous stuff.
I detect a much more relaxed Ian, Good to see, another few weeks and you will fit right in. Watch out on gravel roads, don't know about NZ but in Australia a lot of them are graveled with limestone which being soft rapidly wears into nice round stones with similar traction characteristics to marbles. Many a tourist and local has ended up in a ditch when the physics of momentum overrules an attempt to turn.
I know Matthew’s Museum and have been there a couple of times. That Graham Bros fire truck was one of a number imported into NZ many years ago by the Fire Service; in the 1940s one of those was the main fire appliance in Takapuna on the North Shore of Auckland and I remember it well. Devonport, our neighbouring suburb had a 1940 barrel-nosed Ford V8 and we were very jealous. Then Devonport got a 1948 Ford V8 which was a very modern truck and Takapuna inherited the barrel-nose but still kept the old Graham Bros as a backup.
Hi Ian, another great video,the museum was a sight to see especially with the Escort and the Mini,some nice machines there,the 90 mile beach was a long stretch it was never ending 😂😂,the epic views were so awesome.
Puts me in mind of when the wife and I toured NZ in a Britz Transit HiCube camper van back in 1999. Loved the place and the people. It was even more laid back than Wales with the level of service you'd get in somewhere like California. Diesel was the equivalent of 17 pence a litre, so I had rather over estimated how much money to take for fuel as I had based this on the price of petrol which was about twice the price at the time. Happy days! South Island is also stunning with even fewer people.
Wow, its been 20 years since i visited NZ and it appears not to have changed a single bit since my holiday there. Seeing the bay of islands again and sailing through that cave really bought back some lovely memories, the dolphins in the bay too, that was my first time seeing them and that memory is as fresh as yesterday! But seeing 90 mile beach again, wow, i need to go back and do some revisits!
What I loved about NZ were the views. I'd stop the motorbike, get my camera, take the shot, pack the camera away, then ride off. 200 yards later I'd see a BETTER view, so would repeat the whole process again. Seems like only yesterday, but coming up to 24 years ago now.
Like your BX 19GT. Obviously very versatile and doing well for 350,000kms. Oh and yes don't worry about the 'holiday stomach'......they just sneak up on you and then they are there to stay!
Marvellous stuff. I hope you engage more with the locals on video for us in the coming weeks and months. You found your Fred Dibnah affinity long ago, but I feel you have yet to fully embrace your inner Alan Whicker.
At 6:28 thats a Ransomes Crawler Tractor. Looks like an MG5 600cc Petrol engine. Awesome little things. I used to have one. I have videos on my channel somewhere showing it off. :-)
Great finding those museums along the way, somebody had probably mentioned it but if in the central North island a visit to Horopito Motors is a must, business that sort of doubles as a museum, will need plenty of time for a good look.
So in fact 90 mile beach is actually nearer 90km beach 😉 Sitting watching this on a dreary grey autumn morning in my commuter train to Lyon. I'm well jealous...
We spent the night on the campsite you can see at the far north petrol station on our camper tour. These videos are bringing Bach some fantastic memories.. I shared your boat trip to the whole in the rock video with a friend who lives in Paihia- she used to work on those catamarans-she’s re-shared it with the captain who let you see his wiper action!
What a stunning place it is! I enjoyed the beach drive from my armchair here in miserable old blighty very much. Stuck at home waiting for my old Merc E270's SBC brake pump to be repaired which is probably going to cost an airfare to NZ to fix! Have fun Hubnut.
I think LHD Minors sold quite well on the continent! I've even seen a handful of them still around, some beautifully restored, some rotting in a field, waiting for a restoration that might never happen. Back in the 90s I used to spend my summers on a farm in Austria and the farmers drove a green Escort just like that, except I think the dash was the same colour as the seats. A 1971 I think. In 1999 or early 2000 they replaced it with a horribly bland new-ish black Mondeo.
liverush24 I thought Ian might have given us an ecclesiastical musical michael extraction in an Margarita Pracatan meets Dudley Moore in cheeky (Pete &) ‘Dud’ mode! But thank Kraken, he didn’t!
Great video, enjoyable watch, actually driven & camped on 90 mile beach with a Honda Prelude, brought back a lot of memories. Seen many cars come unstuck trying to exit the beach.
When I was young (a long time ago), one was allowed to drive on Brean sands. My dad let me drive his Mk1 Avenger there when I was but a nipper. I remember at least one car getting bogged down and claimed by the "sea" though.
Your fox always reminds me of the Trekka. A colleague had one blow over in the wind when he stopped to open a gate. He was able to roll it back onto its wheels and drive home.
You’re doing a great job for the New Zealand tourism industry. The sign showing distances to other world locations mentioned Bluff and after consulting my Atlas I see that Bluff is at the bottom of South Island, so there’s your target Ian, a mere 1452km away. 😂
He'll need a bit of a run up to get over Cook Strait
That museum was a true treasurer,I could spend hours if not days checking out all the odds and bobs.
I found the caravan overtake really amusing on 90mile beach. Fantastic video. Thanks
Ooh! I’m really enjoying this trip! Fabulous scenery and interesting places! Thank you so much for taking us along!
Looks like Wales on steroids (I once heard someone say about NZ)
Electrowave Haha! True! 👍
@ 4:50 it looks like a cross between a series Land Rover and Postman Pat's van.
Even Postman Pat's van is sophisticated compared with a Trekka
@@paulstandeven8572 🙂
So different from the beautiful old Octavia whose running gear it was using
@@TheDotBot It does seem strange to refer to a communist-bloc car as 'beautiful' in relation to its fellow, but in this case, yes. Skoda always showed vastly more design flair than other east European makers. Excepting Tatra, whose chief engineer was behind the MB 1000......
@@paulstandeven8572 Idk, the Tatra 603 had quite an imposing aesthetic, even if it didn't quite carry over into the MB 1000. The older Wartburg 311 looked nice (similar kind of style to the old Octavia), unlike their uncompromisingly bland and ugly successor, the 353, which was surprisingly comfy if you didn't mind the two-stroke smell.
Good to see Winston Mathews looking so well! . He and his brother were customers of mine when I ran a workshop there a few decades ago! and I even have a picture of me as a 8 year old with the 1927 Chev. And Yes a real Nash theme ,they have some later model ones and Buicks too. I was born in the King country (Waikato ) but the far North has always been a favorite part of NZ. An Australian,Norman" wizard" Smith attempted to break the world land speed record on 90 mile beach .Unsuccessfully as it happened but it's a great Story.
Superlative stuff! Like millions of others back in Blighty, I can't afford holidays these days, so thank you for sharing yours with me, doing just what I would do if I were touring round NZ again. As I missed it on my roadtour of North Island decades back, I'd always wondered what the Northland Peninsula was like - well now I know!
I've had a few beach drives over the years, notably near Formby/Southport in Lancs in a Leyland Sherpa camper van and many miles along the Northern Ireland coast at Benone Beach on a motorbike (Big signs nowadays banning it now, sadly) Glad you didn't get stuck in the sand, and considerately washed the lovely loaner BX with a spray gun afterwards for the owner.
Last real holiday I took was in 1997, in Detroit. Very car-heavy holiday it was too. I'd love to have been to New Zealand!
Brilliant, thanks for opening the doors for HubNut 👍🏻
Another excellent video of your travels around New Zealand. Right-hand drive Chevrolet Bel Air, museum, spectacular scenery and a drive on a beach in the BX, so much in one video. I'm sure there many other subscribers to your channel who like myself appreciate the sheer number of videos you've uploaded of your New Zealand adventures, thank you Ian.
You've gotta love that amazing collection of vehicles and tools, just STAGGERING that! BIG thanks for sharing this!!
Ian got a taste of his own medicine with the caravan overtake. I bet the driver was saying "Oh look, I bet that's a tourist, holding things up as usual" 😂
Thank you Ian I really think New Zealand is one of the nicest places on Earth
I've only worked around the Auckland area, but it is spectacular. I will be going back for a longer trip.
Great to see you having fun.
That Austin A60 van took me back, my Dad traded in his gorgeous Wolseley 6/110 against a grey A60 van..I was a very unhappy little person.
That is very nice, puting the Singer next to the piano.
1956 Chevrolet Bel Air 4dr sedan. These were built in Oshawa, Ontario as CKD kits for export to the Commonwealth countries. They are always 4 doors & were built as RHD not converted. Local paint codes & interiors were used. Production numbers were in the low thousands. Convertibles, coupes etc weren't available any you see are American imports. These were marketed as large family cars.
That’s just an amazing museum! Wow I’d be lost in there for hours, lovely to see so much preserved history there! Love the beach driving too! Great video
You jammy jammy man Seabrook. What a beautiful brown 1970s Jaguar XJ series 2. Can't think why Jaguar bothered updating the XJ6 or replacing it for that matter. I think it looks as modern today as it did 40 years ago. They could have just kept building this design in my Hubnut view. I remember reading in CAR magazine that Jaguar tested a 6 cylinder diesel in the Series 3 in the 80s. Don't know the engine manufacturer but decades before the 2.7 twin turbo V6 diesel of today's Jags. Carry on tantalising us Lad. Chevy Bel Air, love it. Top Man. Never mind the epic view, thon BX is epic son.
I thought it star of the show, the classic jag stand at NEC normally steals the show.
In my humble opinion, this is one of the best HubNut videos ever! So much content. Well done Sir. And looks like you will have plenty of photos to go through to choose for next year's HubNut calendar (Yes, I have my 2020 one)!
I drove my Hillman Super Minx along 90 Mile Beach on the hard sand at low tide in the summer of 1982.
What a great drive .... mile after mile of desolate beach and pounding surf.
This museum immediately reminds me of a similar museum in the Netherlands in the town of Langeboom, the collection of Wim van Schayik. What beautiful roads and scenery to drive through with your car.
The variety in the Matthews Vintage Collection could have kept me there all day. The more you show of New Zealand the more I want visit the country, its a spectacular naturally beautiful place.
Thanks for taking time to put out so many of these vids Ian, I'm really enjoying this journey. Amazing scenery,and that little museum was great.😀
I appreciate your mechanical empathy and giving the car a wash after driving on the beach.
Looks an interesting day of HubNutting.
Gosh it's just one stunning view after another, loved the meeting of the oceans and that delightful bygone museum. Then there was (not) 90 mile beach, how you spoil us Mr H
Have never seen or heard you so relaxed, so happy, so chilled. You even talk with a care-free attitude. Now you know why the Brits came to NZ and Australia and never went back. 🌄
Great vid Ian really enjoyed watching all that nice scenery and the BX !
LOL @ 26:00 - I've just been overtaken by a caravan ! ah ha! ha! ha!
Re: the Escorts, NZ assembled all body styles - two and four door, van and estate. There were a few Aussie imports with 2.0 pinto engines
Never saw an Assie 2.0 in NZ. I remember a single ex UK RS2000 in Wellington.
Most NZ escorts were 1.3 L models. They never had the Popular. They only had the 1,6 as a 2 door sport until the last few years with the Giha models.
@@andrewthompsonuk1 they were fairly uncommon. Probably brought in as a private import. Saw the occasional four door Aussie RS2000 with a droop snoot. I used to drive a '79 1600 Sport, incredibly thirsty and not a lot of bang for the buck.
ahh, my former years were thick with pinto and pushrod escorts,
did my apprenticeship at Pecocks of Balham RS md,
and a Loughborough junction railway arch... and a machine shop at Brans hatch
Great travelog, I am loving it! Overtaken by a caravan combo, seriously odd!
So beautiful! had no idea New Zealand was so amazing! Thank goodness you knew better and didn’t splash in the sea while driving 90 mile beach. So many northerners do at Daytona Beach Fl. Few months later serious rust problems.
What a trip. Interesting museum with the pianola that reminded me so much of visits to Aunty Joyce and Uncle Ron with me playing their pianola and everyone singing along, oh the nostalgia! The 90 mile beach! What! How brilliant, except you were overtaken by a caravan, those reckless hoons! I believe that most '90 mile' beaches are less than 90 miles :-(. I found it so hard to stay on the road and look at the scenery at the same time over there. I began to get sick of the constant corners and I normally love corners. Best views yet I think. Cheers.
Excellent piano. I was waiting for Rene's wife Edith from Allo Allo! to start singing
That museum looked fascinating. I could spend a week in there and not get bored :)
Remember my first trip to the South Island, went on a motorbike. Yes you get a little tired of the stunning landscape, after making many stops to look at views and take photos. You get to the point where you don't bother even turning your head to see them. A number of times I said to myself there's a lovely lake & mountain to my left but keep going because you need to get to the next town. The road south of Queenstown was a notable highlight along with the water colour around Mt Cook.
A Museum is never complete without Duck's.!
😎
Oh dear HubbyN. You're doing all what I back packed back in 2003. Sweet. Nowts changed. Also ridden back Jaffa City Auckland to Dunedin in 2015
Thank you for bringing the sunshine over here. The weather is turning lovely 👍
As far as museums go, that one beats all others I've seen. I sure would like to test drive all those machines !
Pity there was no cat.
What a brilliant adventure, thanks for sharing!
What a great place to visit and we get to see it through the eyes of Mr Hubnut. good times.
Wow, nice little out of the way place to find, loved the Austin van & the Escort
What an amazing place, since I will never get to New Zealand it was something I would never have seen.
Why not travelling New Zealand? I put some money into my safe every month which is just for holidays. I´s amazing what you can save in 18 months. For me, from Germany to NZ is app. 750 Euro one way.
The 'bobbing' effect as you're walking around the museum made the whole experience feel like a bizarre 'Doom' level. Thankfully you were spared demonic interference, though the pianola is arguably suspect...
those waters merging was stunning , and something i've never seen before, it's such a lovely country
Stunning scenery, the BX doing you proud. A memorable trip indeed.
What a wonderfully eclectic collection!
Love that museum too
Stunning. Absolutely gobsmacked! You are also a man of many talents!
The force is with you young Ian. Long may it continue.
Great driving roads with all those bends, plus the scenery.
The BX looks great on the beach. And the museum OMG I could spend hours there.
I have to say these videos are really making me want to visit New Zealand now..Looks awesome, looking forward to more :)
What a stunning place I’m very envious. Would love to visit.
What an amazing museum! Should be called "The Matthews Museum of absolutely everything"! And I bet that Chevy the curator drives would be worth an absolute fortune in the UK.
The more I see of New Zealand, the more incredible it looks. How much you're enjoying yourself really comes across. The fact that you filmed on what was supposed to be a day off speaks volumes.
I really enjoyed the Croatia videos and this trip is shaping up to be even better! Superb work Sir!
Thanks I'm really enjoying being taken along on your journey of exploration. Great combo of relaxed vibes, lovely scenery, mild surprises. Marvellous stuff.
I detect a much more relaxed Ian, Good to see, another few weeks and you will fit right in. Watch out on gravel roads, don't know about NZ but in Australia a lot of them are graveled with limestone which being soft rapidly wears into nice round stones with similar traction characteristics to marbles. Many a tourist and local has ended up in a ditch when the physics of momentum overrules an attempt to turn.
Oh it's slippy alright!
I know Matthew’s Museum and have been there a couple of times. That Graham Bros fire truck was one of a number imported into NZ many years ago by the Fire Service; in the 1940s one of those was the main fire appliance in Takapuna on the North Shore of Auckland and I remember it well. Devonport, our neighbouring suburb had a 1940 barrel-nosed Ford V8 and we were very jealous. Then Devonport got a 1948 Ford V8 which was a very modern truck and Takapuna inherited the barrel-nose but still kept the old Graham Bros as a backup.
Great video again, so jealous. Enjoy the warm weather, lucky my hub nut beanie arrived so I wont be cold this winter 😀
"I'm not getting the gimble out its to windy" ,enough of these euphemisms!
If it’s too windy out I whack my gimble on tripod.
Ian you truly are living the dream. As a 41 year old man same as you I’m jealous but happy for you!
Hi Ian, another great video,the museum was a sight to see especially with the Escort and the Mini,some nice machines there,the 90 mile beach was a long stretch it was never ending 😂😂,the epic views were so awesome.
Puts me in mind of when the wife and I toured NZ in a Britz Transit HiCube camper van back in 1999. Loved the place and the people. It was even more laid back than Wales with the level of service you'd get in somewhere like California. Diesel was the equivalent of 17 pence a litre, so I had rather over estimated how much money to take for fuel as I had based this on the price of petrol which was about twice the price at the time. Happy days! South Island is also stunning with even fewer people.
Wow, its been 20 years since i visited NZ and it appears not to have changed a single bit since my holiday there. Seeing the bay of islands again and sailing through that cave really bought back some lovely memories, the dolphins in the bay too, that was my first time seeing them and that memory is as fresh as yesterday! But seeing 90 mile beach again, wow, i need to go back and do some revisits!
What I loved about NZ were the views. I'd stop the motorbike, get my camera, take the shot, pack the camera away, then ride off.
200 yards later I'd see a BETTER view, so would repeat the whole process again.
Seems like only yesterday, but coming up to 24 years ago now.
That was really good thank you, a very interesting collection
Fantastic museum and the beach is too. The only thing that could make that more hippy is if you were driving a VW camper! ;-)
You get merging oceans at Knysna in South Africa which looks so similar scenery-wise. It’s the Atlantic meeting the Indian Oceans - quite dramatic
Like your BX 19GT. Obviously very versatile and doing well for 350,000kms. Oh and yes don't worry about the 'holiday stomach'......they just sneak up on you and then they are there to stay!
Marvellous stuff. I hope you engage more with the locals on video for us in the coming weeks and months. You found your Fred Dibnah affinity long ago, but I feel you have yet to fully embrace your inner Alan Whicker.
At 6:28 thats a Ransomes Crawler Tractor. Looks like an MG5 600cc Petrol engine. Awesome little things. I used to have one. I have videos on my channel somewhere showing it off. :-)
Nice to hear a vintage player piano playing in tune for a change.
You found a Trekka! Most excellent.
Loving these travel v logs amazing scenery & wacky cars keep them coming
Again, this gets better with each episode. Fantastic stuff.
BX looks fantastic it looks better now that back in the 80s 90s shows it was an interesting creative design way ahead of its time
Caravan overtaking a BX on the beach at speed. How very HubNut. Love it
Great finding those museums along the way, somebody had probably mentioned it but if in the central North island a visit to Horopito Motors is a must, business that sort of doubles as a museum, will need plenty of time for a good look.
So in fact 90 mile beach is actually nearer 90km beach 😉
Sitting watching this on a dreary grey autumn morning in my commuter train to Lyon. I'm well jealous...
After Beachfun a nice bath for the BX...like it is human...well done
We spent the night on the campsite you can see at the far north petrol station on our camper tour.
These videos are bringing Bach some fantastic memories..
I shared your boat trip to the whole in the rock video with a friend who lives in Paihia- she used to work on those catamarans-she’s re-shared it with the captain who let you see his wiper action!
Ian
Don’t forget to introduce any cats hosting you at Airbnb
What a stunning place it is! I enjoyed the beach drive from my armchair here in miserable old blighty very much. Stuck at home waiting for my old Merc E270's SBC brake pump to be repaired which is probably going to cost an airfare to NZ to fix! Have fun Hubnut.
"There it is, a 90-mile beach!" (shows us a walk-around of the BX) :-)
I'm loving the NZ videos. Great entertainment.
Fascinating place and so nice of the chap to give you a private admission.
I think LHD Minors sold quite well on the continent! I've even seen a handful of them still around, some beautifully restored, some rotting in a field, waiting for a restoration that might never happen.
Back in the 90s I used to spend my summers on a farm in Austria and the farmers drove a green Escort just like that, except I think the dash was the same colour as the seats. A 1971 I think. In 1999 or early 2000 they replaced it with a horribly bland new-ish black Mondeo.
That’s a cool museum. Especially when ya get it all to yourself as well.
Finally, a piano that even I can play.
liverush24 I thought Ian might have given us an ecclesiastical musical michael extraction in an Margarita Pracatan meets Dudley Moore in cheeky (Pete &) ‘Dud’ mode! But thank Kraken, he didn’t!
@@thepofmeister "PRACATAN!..."
Great video, enjoyable watch, actually driven & camped on 90 mile beach with a Honda Prelude, brought back a lot of memories. Seen many cars come unstuck trying to exit the beach.
Lovely Jubbly Mr HubNut, now you probably wouldn't drive in a new Citroen on the beach, saltwater and all.
I do like that comet, as your probably aware a few comet chassis carried coach bodywork in the UK. I'm impressed with your musicianship too.
That was so funny when you were overtaken by a caravan, So HubNut!
The first recorded time a car has been going too slow for a car towing a caravan.
When I was young (a long time ago), one was allowed to drive on Brean sands. My dad let me drive his Mk1 Avenger there when I was but a nipper. I remember at least one car getting bogged down and claimed by the "sea" though.
The Bel Air looks like a '56 - very Elvis! 👍🏻
I loved it when the caravan sped past.
Your fox always reminds me of the Trekka. A colleague had one blow over in the wind when he stopped to open a gate. He was able to roll it back onto its wheels and drive home.
I enjoyed watching that. Thanks Ian. I quite fancy having a wander myself.
5:25 We had the 2 door Escorts for the Mk 1 and Mk 2 at least.
I think the Jaguar steals the classic car show.
great series please keep em coming look forward each day