A big thank you to the organizers of this event
Was our first-ever significant event out of Rotorua, it proved to be a real experience and half...even after several weeks of prepping the car and double-checking bits and bobs, still ended up with a minor issue to sort (Shock Retaining Nut came loose...Dash the jolly thing was the strongest words used at the time - Honest
Poor old girl showing its nearly 300,000km age on the Taihape-Napier road had no show in Hades in keeping up....its 135psi compression was no match (no help to the tools in the back
) for the other pocket rockets, got to Napier and parked up at Whirikaki Beach where the engine lid kept our Pizza warm
Onto Wairoa, for the night to briefly see family and recover from the day
The next morning venturing south to meet the lads in the hope of doing a video of them boosting up the Mohaka Hill, we proved to be 5 minutes too late, coming across them at the crest of the Mohaka
Was really cool to hear some of the local's comments in such a little hick one-horse town as they drove by, several locals coming over to check things out and one potential membership pending (A recent purchaser of an SW20 3SGTE 'Paddock find')
The Tiniroto road proving to be the begging of a troublesome rattle that progressed into a thud....eventually becoming a significant thump in the right front end, no idea why the retaining nut came loose....forgot to tighten, insufficient torque...no idea, but with a boot of trusty tools, superb portable floor jack and a handy block of 10x12 wood on the roadside made for a 15-minute repair that even Possum Bourbne would be proud of
With the sunset and Te Kaha, no better time to stop on the beach and do a brief remembrance to Ryans mother who passed one year that day (we would otherwise have been in the Philipines commemorating), a solemn time with much-needed rest after some leg cramping corners
Opotiki Caltex true to form, putting on a super feed and rest stop
Onward to Rotorua via Taneatua home 10 pm
Until next time, Go Well, Take Care and Safe Travels