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Burson Crew 17 hits the dirt for Camp Quality
Burson Auto Parts Ravenhall (VIC) store manager David Sizeland and Burson trade customer Simon Henderson of Total Maintenance and Fabrication (VIC) played their part in helping the Camp Quality children’s charity recently by taking part in the 2022 esCarpade. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2022, the Camp Quality esCarpade included cars 20 years of age or older and covered more than 2,000 kilometres, with more than 75 percent of it on inhospitable gravel roads, including lots of mud and several water crossings. The Burson Crew 17 machine was the trusty 1993 Ford ED Falcon Station Wagon with a mere 300,000 plus kilometres on the clock. This week-long event held in April was all about fun as well as raising much needed funds for this most worthy of children’s charities. The Burson Crew 17 duo travelled from Narrandera to Cootamundra, through to Forbes, Mudgee and then onto Gilgandra, Coonabarabran, Manilla and Armidale, finishing up in beautiful Coffs Harbour, with mystery locations thrown in just for good measure – most locations being where a 29-year-old Falcon station wagon definitely should not go! David and Simon showed some initiative on the esCarpade by kidnapping a couple of toy mascots (Bundy and Kermit) from another team and taking them on tour around Mudgee on their official day off, sending pics to their extremely worried owners, demanding more fundraising to ensure their safe release. The Burson Crew 17 Team formed part of a five car Southern Stars Victorian esCarpade team that raised an impressive $82,000 between them. These included long-term Camp Quality esCarpade participant and loyal Burson Auto Parts trade customer Graeme McMahon from Barwon Tyre and Auto in Belmont (VIC) in his VP Commodore Wagon (Car 88). They were joined by Car 86, a VR Commodore Ute, Cruiser 1 – an 80 series Toyota Landcruiser and Benza, representing Europe’s finest in a 1970s Merc. The team contributed to the overall Camp Quality 2022 esCarpade total of over $1.1 million that was raised to help children suffering from cancer and their families. Rejuvenated with plenty of quality parts and accessories from Burson Auto Parts, the ED Ford Falcon Wagon was initially set up back in 2017 for the team’s inaugural esCarpade with help from several Burson suppliers including JAS, Narva, Roadsafe, Dayco, KYB and Milwaukee. The car was also dyno prepared and tuned by Burson customer Michael J’s & Son in Fairfield (VIC). To find out more visit www.campquality.org.au
AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY
CVT NZ 2010 Ltd and CVT Parts Ltd are up for sale
New Zealand’s CVT NZ 2010 Ltd and CVT Parts Ltd specialise in supplying parts and re-manufacturing CVT transmissions. The businesses are situated in an ideal location at 125 SH 5, Tirau, with the central North Island site making for a quick turn-around for collection and delivery of vehicles requiring parts and repairs. The businesses distribute worldwide to 130 countries, has a large database of regular clients and is also a preferred Capricorn Society supplier. Marketing agent Steve Pett, of Bayley’s Commercial Sales, Business and Brokerage in Hamilton, said this prospect is hard to equal, with purchasers having the opportunity to purchase the land and buildings including a four-bedroom home. There are also qualified staff already in place for the business, and several secured domain names. “This is an exciting opportunity to acquire a leading brand in the automotive industry with high volume sales,” Steve said. “CVT NZ 2010 Ltd and CVT Parts Ltd holds a unique strategic position in New Zealand as one of the only businesses of its kind. “It is locally owned and operated, and for more than 25 years it has been run as a family business with experience in the automotive sector and servicing 130 countries worldwide. The opportunity is here for a new owner to make this business their own.” The company has more than 1,200 different parts in stock and supplies parts to every country in the world. More than 180 different CVT transmissions are available which are used in cars and fourwheel-drive vehicles, and they also manufacture some parts no longer available from the original manufacturer. “The aim is to make it easier for workshops to overhaul CVT transmissions due to the manufactures not supplying parts or not supplying information for these transmissions,” Steve said. “The business aims to get parts available for every CVT transmission and will supply and support businesses making it easier for all mechanics to understand the working and diagnose problems and how to solve and repair them.” The property (zoned Rural 1A) includes a workshop floor area of 24m x 12m and a mezzanine floor area of 105sqm. The total land area measures 40m x 34m, there is an outside area for the loading and unloading of vehicles and a large area for short term parking. For more information, contact Steve Pett on steve.pett@bayleyswaikato.co.nz or +64 7 834-3232 or +64 27 560-4838.
