February 2012 Newsletter - KDA132

John King’s photograph of Lindsay Wogan driving B11DK in the Vintage Car Club’s Invermay Hill-climb, February 1975.
B11DK, engine L7BR, Hooper Saloon, registered BXY14 amazed at there being 17 Derby cars in NZ! Sorry that will now
in June 1935 to Mrs J.R. Campbell. It was imported to New be 16, but we are returning for family reasons - we have just
Zealand in the late 1970s by Frank Renwick, who still owns it. loved living in NZ. My car is body design 26, I think the same
B136FB, engine S3BN, Thrupp & Maberly Saloon, registered as Gavin Bain’s, except the window arrangement on mine is
467CLK to J.F.B. Gage in February 1936, and now owned designed to catch the rain if you are facing the wrong way!”
by Bob Thompson, Nelson. This car is about to depart New
Zealand, for its homeland, as Bob writes: “I bought the car in
1996 as a project and got it back on the road (for the first time
since 1962) in 1998. Since then it has been a story of continuous
refurbishment, and I think all has been rebuilt now, except the
gearbox. It is a great touring car, capable of holding 80mph at
3000rpm in overdrive. We’ve done 40,000 miles in it so far,
mostly in NZ, France and Spain, as well as its native UK. I’m
(Clockwise from above) Bob Thompson’s photograph of B136FB
The text of Mr I. Rogers’ letter to The Real Car Company:
“The late Mr John Briggs, who purchased CJJ406 in about
1963 because he felt sorry for it on a cold garage forecourt in
November. He then ran it every day until he stopped driving, due
to ill health, in about the summer of 1993. I purchased CJJ from
his estate. Please look after CJJ for us all.”
John King’s photograph of B166FB in Oamaru during the
Southern Region’s touring weekend, November 2010.
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