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K I W I P R O D U C TI O N C A R S — TA LE S O F T WO C A R S T H AT N E A R LY M A D E IT NEW ZEALAND CLASSIC CAR SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE 345

SKODA RALLYE • HILLMAN SUPER MINX • FIAT COUPÉS • PLYMOUTH SUBURBAN • ANZIEL NOVA • MARLBOROUGH-CARLTON

SKODA TURNS

UP THE HEAT!

1971 WORKS 120 S RALLYE

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HILLMAN SUPER MINX A LABOUR OF LOVE

TWO FIAT COUPÉS

FEEL THE PININFARINA EFFECT

PLYMOUTH SUBURBAN

NEW LIFE FOR OLD HEARSE

TURNING THE TABLES ON MOTORMAN DONN ANDERSON — WE ASK THE QUESTIONS

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6 SKODA RALLYE 120 S RARE EX-WORKS RACER REVIVED 16 HILLMAN SUPER MINX REDEMPTION FOR A FAMILY FAVOURITE 24 ANZIEL NOVA NEARLY OUR OWN HOME-GROWN CAR 40 FIAT COUPE & FIAT COUPE THE BANGLES — A QUIRKY HIT 52 PLYMOUTH SUBURBAN HEARSE TURNED RATCATCHER 58 BMW E36 318I FAMOUS BATTLE — ON AND OFF THE TRACK 60 TECHNICAL FEATURE THE RULES FOR GETTING ON THE ROAD 2

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32 LUNCH WITH … DONN ANDERSON

TOP MOTORING WRITER TALKS 68 MOTORMAN

BEAULIEU: A BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR CAR FANS 74 KITS AND PIECES

KIWI ORIGINAL RESCUED FROM OBSCURITY

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80 MOTOR SPORT FLASHBACK

SIR STIRLING’S SEVEN DECADES OF RACING 86 PRICE ON … CAR WARS

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1971 Škoda 120 S Rallye

RELIVING THE DREAM WHEN COLIN WAITE DISCOVERED HIS O L D E X - W O R K S Š K O D A 1 2 0 S R A L LY E C A R AFTER 25 YEARS, HE COULDN’T RESIST THE T E M P TAT I O N T O P U R C H A S E I T A N D R E S T O R E IT TO ITS FORM ER G LORY Words: Ashley Webb Photos: New Zealand Classic Car

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1966 Hillman Super Minx

Keeping it in the family SOME CARS INSPIRE SO MUCH A F F E C T I O N T H AT T H E I R VA L U E S O A R S W AY B E YO N D T H E I R G U I D E P R I C E .

‘GERALDINE’ IS ONE OF THOSE PRICELESS CLASSICS Words: Ian Parkes Photos: New Zealand Classic Car

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FEATURE 1967 Anziel Nova

A FIVE-YEAR FIGHT THE ANZIEL NOVA — 1967 TO 1970

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BRE AKING INTO THE C AR INDUSTRY W A S D E F I N I T E LY G O I N G T O B E A B A T T L E — A F I G H T T H AT A L A N G I B B S W A S P R E PA R E D T O TA K E I N T O T H E C O R R I D O R S OF GOVERNMENT Words and photos: Patrick Harlow

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FEATURE

Donn Anderson interview

Ruapuna 1967 and Donn track tests the much modified Jim Mullins Austin A40 Farina New Zealand Classic Car | themotorhood.com 32 New Zealand

Lunch with

Donn Anderson MEET THE MAN WHO HAS SEEN EVERYTHING, MET ALL OUR MOTORING HEROES, AND DRIVEN THE BEST AND WORST CARS E V E R B U I LT Words: Michael Clark Photos: Donn Anderson, Jack Inwood

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uring my recent lunch with Bill Gavin, covered in previous issues, I told Bill that I’d been given a copy of his book The Jim Clark Story for my 10th birthday by my parents. I then recalled that my aunt had given me a subscription to Motorman magazine, meaning that I have been reading the words of Donn Anderson since shortly after I started reading. It was time to sit down with the guy who has seen everything, met all our heroes, and performed road tests on both the best and worst cars ever made.

Donn was typically modest at my suggestion that we meet for lunch. “Who’d be interested?” he asked.

To which I responded, “I am” — and he eventually warmed to the idea.

Bored stiff On a miserable July day, we lunch at Aubergine in Takapuna, where Donn and his wife Lynne have now lived for many years.

I’ve always assumed, incorrectly, as it turns out, that, given Donn’s career path, and the fact that his brother Rodger was such a leading light in small-to-medium-sized saloon cars back in the day, their father must have been a real car enthusiast.

“Dad used to drag us all out to Ardmore. We were there for the first Grand Prix in 1954, and I hated it — a long, hot day; you had to walk for miles and I was bored stiff,” Donn says.

This was somewhat in contrast to his brother.

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FEATURE 1996 Fiat coupés

Mama Mia,

T H I N K O F A S P O R T S C O U P E A N D C H A N C E S A R E T H AT YO U ’ R E T H I N K I N G O F A N I TA L I A N .

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It’s Twins

F I AT H A S P R O V I D E D M O R E T H A N I T S FA I R S H A R E OF THIS FORM OF CAR Words: Terry Cobham Photographs: New Zealand Classic Car

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