Event Reports

We were all ready for an amazing ‘Wacky Whatever Weekend‘ exploring Waitomo and surrounds before coming together at the Chateau Tongariro for lunch with our friends from the Manawatu Club. [...]

Our Midwinter Dinner at the Der Metz German restaurant in Kohimarama, was a full house and it was a real treat having a private dining venue to ourselves. MC’s Bill [...]

Gerrit starry-eyed As autumn goes by Janine and Daryl organised for everybody who was keen a run through beautiful scenic roads, down to New Zealand’s only pure organic [...]

Finally the day of the Southern Road Rally arrived, the first event that Daryl and I have organised. There was a bit of work but not as much as we thought [...]

Our 3rd annual Top Down Tour to southeast Auckland’s Pohutukawa Coast was enjoyed by 39 of us, under clear sunny skies. A total of 19 Mercedes including 11 convertibles and [...]

Last May I got a call from a motor racing friend who suggested that being a Mercedes enthusiast I should attend a meeting of car club people who wanted to have [...]

Valentine's Day 2016 was celebrated with unusual vigour at the Ellerslie Racecourse as 70 classic car clubs representing 700 members came together. Considering the average age of the members it [...]

Auckland certainly turned on a beautiful sunny day for our Christmas lunch as more than 40 of us turned up to the lovely Brigham Restaurant. Once again we parked in [...]

Let’s start this story a couple of months ago in the Jeffery house. Daryl, “Look the club are doing an Economy Run. We can use the economy mode.” Me, “We [...]

Garry’s garage was a magnet in October for any red-blooded car enthusiast keen to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the greatest race – Mercedes and the 1955 Mille Miglia. [...]