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Vintage Transport near Auckland - February 1999
We spent another day spent in the area North of Auckland. We set out with no fixed destination and within a few tens of kilometers started to overtake a few vintage cars and shortly afterwards discovered a rest area almost full of the - we had come by chance on one of the clubs annual and unpublished runs. We spent some time looking at and filming them. Many were from 1905 -1910 and there were some magnificent machines including an early Renault open bus with solid wheels and an Overland - all gleaming paint and brass.
After they had left chatted with the organiser for some time. He enquired if we were also interested in old aircraft and pointed us towards the airfield at North Shore where the Confederacy Air Force has its base and we were welcomed and shown round both there fleet and that of another aircraft restorer. The aircraft included a De Haviland Fox Moth which was completing its restoration - it is like a Tiger Moth in some ways but has a small two seat enclosed cabin for passengers just aft of the engine and the pilot sits above and can speak to them via a hole in the instrument panel. There was also an immaculate Auster the airforces Piper Cub, a Yak and several Harvards were in the air.
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