Yeah. There was about 150 cars.
Here are some photos.
We all parked up outside the old Admin building, which is now the headquarters of MMC NZ. There was another big field of car but I got there early so I could park in front of the admin building itself
There was this nice Avenger GLS Auto
And Miles with his Tiger
After that we went in the admin building for a presentation about Todd motors history by Mike Todd and Neil O'Callaghan (Service manager for Todd motors who has worked there for 45 years and retired at the Heritage day)
I have always wanted to see inside the Admin building because it has the funkiest 70's style roof. Each of these panels are 2.5x2.5m fibreglass panels made specially for the Admin building.
They had a whole table full of old service manuals
I loved the 50's cartoons on them.
After that we cruised up to the Southward car museum. Followed a Charger for a bit
At the meet up outside the museum I talked to the owner of this sweet single owner Valiant wagon. He ordered it custom from Todd Motors with a 318 V8 way back in 1973.
And also Mike Todd had his genuine E49 Charger there *Drool*
They put on a nice lunch there and then we got to look around the museum
After the museum everyone went their separate ways but as my hotel was literally right next door to the old factory I figured I would drive up to the factory itself and have a look around.
It is truly massive, at the time it was NZ's biggest factory. Now it is used as a distribution centre for tons of places like Big Save furniture, and is also home to a few freight companies, and a NZ post depot. But the one that I was interested in was the Placemakers because I saw they had a drive-through, it was just for timber but I drove inside the actual factory and got some photos of where my car was built 43 years ago. Pretty damn awesome bringing my car back to where it was built, a homecoming of sorts.
And then took a photo outside. You can see how long the factory is.
Then a rainy start to the drive back up to Auckland the next day
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