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aucklander

164 posts

176 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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The T Boy said:
Saw a white Aventador in Auckland CBD earlier today. Was too surprised to grab a photo.
saw that floating around newmrket- was it the one with the italian flag style plates?

CR6ZZ

1,313 posts

171 months

Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Both beautifully faithfully done re-creations rather than kitsets. Built by Classic Car Developments in Invercargill. Both, unfortunately, have gone offshore, the GT40 to Oz, the D-Type to the UK....

One day... sigh.

Bull1t

772 posts

309 months

Wednesday 30th May 2012
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Spotted D1GGY's elise on going around Oriental Bay today. cool

The T Boy

890 posts

266 months

Wednesday 30th May 2012
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aucklander said:
saw that floating around newmrket- was it the one with the italian flag style plates?
Didn't get a look at the plates. However, given the rare nature of the car I'm fairly sure that it probably is the same one. smile

aucklander

164 posts

176 months

Wednesday 30th May 2012
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The T Boy said:
Didn't get a look at the plates. However, given the rare nature of the car I'm fairly sure that it probably is the same one. smile
nice garage mate, love the espirit

GravelBen

16,425 posts

256 months

Wednesday 30th May 2012
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CR6ZZ said:
One day... sigh.
+1

lick

Fulvisti

322 posts

196 months

Wednesday 30th May 2012
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CR6ZZ said:
Both beautifully faithfully done re-creations rather than kitsets. Built by Classic Car Developments in Invercargill. Both, unfortunately, have gone offshore, the GT40 to Oz, the D-Type to the UK....

One day... sigh.
They're gorgeous.

Omerta

2,013 posts

277 months

Wednesday 30th May 2012
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I'm not normally a fan of green, but that GT40 with the wheels and trim in black is just fabulous.

Esprit

6,373 posts

309 months

Wednesday 30th May 2012
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I'd LOVE one of those D-Type Reps.

GilesNZ

9 posts

169 months

Thursday 31st May 2012
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The T Boy said:
Didn't get a look at the plates. However, given the rare nature of the car I'm fairly sure that it probably is the same one. smile
Nope....there is two (whom I believe are brothers) biggrin


Edited by GilesNZ on Thursday 31st May 02:09

CR6ZZ

1,313 posts

171 months

Thursday 31st May 2012
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Since there is a bit of interest here are a couple more pics. The black is actually a dark charcoal grey metallic colour, and the green is an Aston Martin racing colour.

Under the bonnet of the D.

The T Boy

890 posts

266 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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aucklander said:
nice garage mate, love the espirit
Thanks. thumbup

Finally getting some use out of it after a couple of months with it sat doing nothing.

SkylineObsession

255 posts

247 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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See a few late model American muscle cars around Dunners every few days. Black Camaro, multiple Mustang/Shelby GT500's (including a brand new shape red one today) and so on.

Few nice exotics from Auckland in this topic: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=107...

Edited by SkylineObsession on Saturday 9th June 11:00

lestag

4,614 posts

302 months

Friday 22nd June 2012
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aucklander said:
saw that floating around newmrket- was it the one with the italian flag style plates?
There is this one in NZ as well, slightly used.


http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics201...

SkylineObsession

255 posts

247 months

Saturday 23rd June 2012
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This is why you should take speeding to the track.

frown

SkylineObsession

255 posts

247 months

Thursday 23rd August 2012
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Saw a black TVR T350 (?) on Andy Bay Road, Dunedin, on Tuesday or Monday? Or maybe Saturday? Only the second ever TVR i've seen after i saw a Griffith 500 tucked in the back of a workshop in Chch a few yerars back.

SkylineObsession

255 posts

247 months

Friday 24th August 2012
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Gah!

Was delivering mail around the Highcliff area in Dunedin today (i'm a postie wink ) and saw an awesome Ferrari F355 F1 (?) Convertible drive past with the top down. Needless to say, despite the car going out of view around the corner relatively soon, i could hear it for quite a long time afterwards - especially when it hit the 80km/h zone heading to Larnachs Castle. biggrinbiggrin

Licence plate was something like 11111 or IIIII or something? Two middle aged occupants. Almost got a pic of it coming back on my cellphone, but the stupid camera took a photo before i even pointed it at the car. frown

Black Frog

331 posts

288 months

Friday 24th August 2012
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Arrived in Auckland yesterday at 1:00pm. Since then, and just on Queens St, I've seen a 612 Scaglietti, an Aston Rapide, a very tasty Maserati GT and a Porsche Panamera with a very wicked exhaust system. Loving Auckland! BF

aucklander

164 posts

176 months

Friday 24th August 2012
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A red 612? One of the partners at an accounting or law firm down by the waterfront has one

There are a lot of tasty cars floating around, especially those owned by young chinese (usually funded by the parents) - Maser MC Stradale, 1M, M3 with very loud exhaust, etc. Weirdest sight was one morning as i walked to the office, would have been 7:15 on a friday, there was a ferrari 360 down on fort lane outside a nightclub. It looked like it was in poor condition with a big scrape on the side. Always wondered what was the situation there. The guys standing around it looked awfully dodgy.

GravelBen

16,425 posts

256 months

Friday 24th August 2012
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SkylineObsession said:
Needless to say, despite the car going out of view around the corner relatively soon, i could hear it for quite a long time afterwards - especially when it hit the 80km/h zone heading to Larnachs Castle.
hehe

Always used to be a really nice drive out around the peninsula - out along Highcliff and back around Portobello Road. Full of buses and lycra bandits the last couple of times I tried it though.