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The Southward Car Museum is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Well actually its about 45min's north of Wellington but feels like your in the middle of nowhere. You head of the main highway and drive along a a small country road for a few hundred meters, and there on your right is the Southward Car museum.. its quiet a strange site because it is a huge 70's warehouse / building with lush mowed grass lawns, complete with flower beds a classic tea house serving lamingtons and a cups of earlgrey, and of course a nice little gift store. Its very out of place and almost like stepping into a time warp. The craziest thing about it is the whole thing is privately owned. Sir Len Southward is the owner and staring collecting cars from 1956 onwards... he was a very successful businessman and dedicated his life to collecting and restoring all sorts of unique vehicles.

Here is a bunch of photos I took on my last visit to the Museum.

1950 Cadillac "gangster special" that belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen.

If you have NZ's biggest vehicle collect you need at least one Delorean, a classic Ferrari and the NZ made Red Head speed boat which was the first boat to reach 100pmh, and did this in 1953 on Wellington to harbor.

A few more shots of the Museum and some of the gnarly cars in it.

One of the best things about the Museum is the collection of Bicycles.

Apperenlty this was this first track bike to ride in the commonwealth games by a NZ rider.

Another interesting fact about the Museum is that it has a 474-seat theater, and features a 1962 Wurtlitlzer Theatre Organ, which was originally installed in the Civic Theater in Auckland.

5 Comments:

JustinH said...: That place is amazing. I can't believe I didn't get to go there when I was in Wellington. ON the list!; April 21, 2009 at 5:44 AM
Anonymous said...: delorean has DMC on the front. I'm sure dennis mccoy wants his car back. AHAHAHAHHA. good post though. Is that V8 motorbike still in there? Beast; April 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Straton said...: Old school tall bike! Really want to ride one of those.; April 22, 2009 at 12:29 AM
MARK SKULLS said...: NZ is so rad. :(; April 22, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Anonymous said...: I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
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SOUTHWARD CAR MUSEUM

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