Epic 250+ Old car Barn find in NZ Peter Markhams British/jappanese 50’/90s collection many for sale
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Day 1 of my quest to find as many car collections in New Zealand as possible from a single cool car to huge private hoards , I’ll be taking in some museums along the way and anything of interest along the way.
Peters daughter gave me a shout and told me about his huge collection of British and Japanese cars ranging from old wrecks to some beautiful Cars he has restored himself to an amazingly high standard.
There aren’t many people that can do everything from bodywork, painting,full engine rebuilding and fantastic interior restoration, Peter can do it all and really well
He’s self taught and I really admire his determination to make a car look as good as it possibly can and all done by him at his workshop near Hamilton in the North Island 🏝️
Now Peter is well let’s say closer to 100 than 50 and he’s decided to try and pass on some of the cars in the shed many of which are very much worth saving and some are incredibly rare others would be good parts cars so if your genuinely interested find him on Facebook and drop him a message for pricing and a brief description, his profile pic is a black classic Vauxhall
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You need to be in your 60s and 70s to remember these cars 😊
Work on every type there when I was a young mechanic I would have been in heaven there.👍
Not really.....They were cheap cars to drive around in the 80's and i'm only 52...
Owned a few,worked on most.
Can remember bonking in a cortina mk3 just like that station wagon.
Greeen, surf boards on the roof racks.
Under pants on the floor.😂
Nope, cars of my youth here in NZ and I'm not 60 yet
What an amazing collection and I’ve never seen so many Cortinas and Vauxhalls in one place
Great to see Peter is still going and still has his Vauxhalls. Some people called him Captain Vauxhall a few decades back when he lived in Hamilton.
On my round tour on both the NZ islands I've visited the Bill Richardson transort world Hawthorndale, smash palace Waitaki, The britten bike at the Wellington te papa Tongarewa museum, in my ignorance I thought I've seen it all... would have loved to visit this place, maybe next time...
Next time try southwards car museum... kapiti coast just north of Wellington.
Holy crap, what a collection. only in NZ
Amazing and beautiful classics! Really a treat. Love the Ford cortinas! Great video. Thank you for sharing!
That Mk2 Cortina estate bought back very early memories and is a car virtually extinct in the UK.
My mum's in the same colour was written off on the night of March 31st 1978 whilst parked up, written off by a drunk driver.
Neighbour knocked on the door the following morning and mum thought it was an April fools joke.
I had turned 3 in early February.
In regard to the pastel colours of 1950s cars, I recently heard that it was a matter of using up surplus WW2 paint pigment stocks. I also understand, via a recent issue of Automobile magazine, that the same thing occurred after WW1. During WW2 pink was used on vehicles in the North African desert and on photo reconnaissance aircraft. Light blue was used on the underside of military aircraft such as day fighters. Grey was used on warships and on British fire engines.
New Zealand built Vauxhall's can be distinguished from the English built one's by the number of welds on the seams, it was done to strengthen
the bodies for New Zealand roads, both a neighbor and my father worked at the factory assembling them.
The last Ford Falcon series assembled in New Zealand had every spot weld done-as opposed to 85%? of the spot welds being done at Broadmeadows. They reportedly handled better than the Aussie built vehicles due to the reduced body flex.
Hidden beauty, thanks for sharing 👍
The starion looked mint ,I'd love to restore it ,also what a great collection.
Wow..... Amazing.
Thank you! Cheers!
Just wow! No Zephyr's . . . but the Cortinas made up for that.
Valiants the best of era
I had a Riley Kestrel in the UK full leather interior great car also tried to buy one of the first Aussie Minis to come into NZ but Dominution Motors would not accept our overseas funds for some reason??
Boy I would love that PADX Cresta Hydramatic I had one when I was a young fella sold it to a guy and he ended up wrecking it.
Wow what an awesome guy
Lovely collection.
I would love that Morris 1000 Convertible please. :)
Awesome - my fav cars: Vauxhall PA and the Consul Classic/315! Trouble with being relocated across the Ditch is there is so few of these English classics!
Did the Oz ones have Holden Red motors in them? All those old GM straight 6 engines look so similar.
@@mickvonbornemann3824 As far as I know (and I'm no expert) all three series of Velox/Cresta/Viscount used the English engines in Australia
and NZ
Keep it up cuz
The first car I ever bought was 1960 PA Velox back in the 70s. I painted it black with a cream roof. Also ended up (stupidly) covering the door cards with fake leopard skin material, and the dash with furry blue material. If the car still exists some where, it shouldn't be hard to miss. I liked the PAs as they had the styling of an American car.
Primrose yellow with a white roof would look nice on the vauxhall
Damn shame they weren't stored better. Takes me back though, as when I did my time as a mechanic back in the 70's most of these cars were my bread & butter in a days work. But I'd rather work on these as now when you open the bonnet of a modern car you can't see a bloody thing and don't talk to me about computers.
I started my apprenticeship in April 1963. One thing we and you learned was how to fix things.
Not find the port to plug in your laptop and change a £1000 ECU for some repair that will cost about 50p. Not a computer in sight thank god.
I think the ony thing we ever unplugged was the connector on the headlamp bulbs.
Yeh@@philyew3617 and we could get to the headlight plug without having to remove the air-filter box and the battery in the first place.
@@broughxtreme 🤣🤣 So True.
A time capsule
i seen a couple of the starions over here in the uk couple decades ago
I had a Starion. Actually, 'Stallion' but Japanes could not say the word.
So the myth goes.
@Z4Zander I always took it as fact but we may never know.
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One of the great mysteries of car-making is the way the Japanese name their vehicles. The rule seems to be to pinch something unpronounceable from a foreign language and misspell it.
Mitsubishi's Starion is the most famous example. They meant to call it Stallion but ended spelling it the way Japanese pronounce it. By the time this was pointed out, it was too late to make a correction, so the PR department concocted an explanation about stars from the Orion constellation.1
@@eion-stephenson So the myth goes.
@Z4Zander And what's your take on it? A name comes from somewhere, and this aligns with the known factors.
@@eion-stephenson My take? You need a new hobby.
was a video in nz years ago sheds full of cortinas escorts all sorts of fords, seems to have vanished from the internet.
Who said hoarding doesnt pay.? Mind blowing place for cool cars.
Our family car was a 58 minx.
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Go to the Ray Win collection in Higgins Park Nelson 7096 NZ where his son David has some super rare Jowetts. They were produced in Bradford Yorkshire from 1906-54. There is a red prototype Bradford estate in there, five went to NZ in 1954 where four have survived.
Mitsubishi Starion my brother had one it was a 2.6litre .4cyl twin turbo faster than a v6 Porsche
Could he be my ,ģrandad please. ❤😊
I never See this Modells in Europe...
Never heard of a Mitsubishi Starion
My brother circuit races one of them
No Holdens 😒
River road Ngaruawahia
I got to know what the end game is, wouldn’t it be better to move some of these on if not 80% of them so they have a chance to be restored before their past restoration? Seems like another form of hoarding.
I guess you didn't read the description huh?
@@sarahturner3234 My bad
scrapyard will have a ball with all that old rubbish
What town or city was taken
hamilton
If only they were Italian !
By the time the Mark III Cortina came out, the British car industry was in terminal decline
THis guy shuld be arrested for hording so many cool old cars especally the PA vauxhulls
I think it’s great how he’s letting them all rust away instead of letting people restore them. What an prick.
Such an amazing collection - I was lucky enough to visit Peter's place about 8 years ago with my dad when we purchased two Hillman Imps off him. He walked us through the whole collection and we spent the entire day in awe of the sheer amount of vehicles he had. We had many laughs and a few bourbons, such a great guy. It's an experience I'll never forget!
Wat a nice old boy loved the old courtinas wat a collection very rare clean you can tell he loves them all I hope the family keeps it all for many years after him
Aren't you a lucky sod to get to tour a collection of so many rare cars. One thing though. I know you were excited but you need to rethink your camera work. It was so jump around you made me sea sick ! 👊😎👍
how you see the 260- z is how all these cars will end up. too many for one person .
Some epic cars you wouldn't see anywhere in the UK!
Never seen a velox wagon .
I know all the rest .
Riley kestrel were reasonably common what you won't see is Vanden Plas Princess 1300.
Good to see them out of the weather .
If he doesn't get around to doing them someone else might get the chance in the future.
Great barn finds can’t wait for part 2
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Being from Luton UK home of Vauxhall I'm absolutely blown away by all these superb vehicles,thank you so much for sharing
If you like NZ Vauxhalls take a look at Stewarts in Christchurch ❤
never seen so many PA Cresta's, lucky man
I was introduced to Peter through a good friend. Spent countless hours hanging out and looking at his collection. Happy to see hes still alive and doing well as I know he had a very serious illness. Thanks for the video!
I have a customer who has three of those Starion (Japanese for Stallion) .Almost all off the road today.
The Husky looks like one some friends of my Parents had back in the 60's in the king Country. Such an unusual car in NZ I suspect it might be the same car.
"Starion" came from "Star of Arion"
The stallion story is a myth
"Mitsubishi says "Starion" is a contraction of "Star of Arion" - and refers to both a star and the mythical horse, Arion. The cover of the original Japanese Starion sales brochure, published by Mitsubishi (May 1982) carried the text: "the name STARION - derived from the combination of star and Arion, Hercules' horse in Greek mythology, symbolizes a sense of the universe, and of power and high performance"
Starion also marketed in US as Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth Conquest.
Had hillman minx 4speed on floor was great little car drove it back and forward over blue mountains 4 3years without a hiccup she was a little buety but to small when kids come along😢
We had these things they are claiming are exclusive to NZ in Australia. This pom must have only seen cars in England and NZ.
I'd love to meet this man and look at his cars. Love old school cars and being a panel beater/ painter I appreciate how tidy these vehicles are
I am in my late 70's and live in the UK and this was a very nostalgic trip down memory lane with some of those cars. Back in the mid 60's a colleague purchased a new Vauxhall Victor 101 estate. I always thought they were a nice big family car. The VX490 version was quite rare back then compared to the Cortina GT models. Another colleague had the previous version the Victor FB model VX490 in an almost beige colour and red stripe with beautiful red leather interior. I could go on about the Ford Anglia's, Cortina's etc and the Vauxhall Cresta FB with the extra clocks on the dash he made himself was excellent. Must see the contents of his other shed.
Next vid is now out
To the ignorant grandson go and spend time with your grandfather you wil regret the decisions your making i wish id spent more time with mine and had learnt from him. now i have a som i can hear in your grandfathers voice that he wants to teach you things he feels is important. clearly hes done well maby you should listem? or do we look alike can i take your place? rotfl
Magical place....Here in NZ...I remember all cars...I seen I was little kid up 15 years old... suddenly never seen again...Worth alot $$$$
Not for long! Where they are they’ll be scrap metal and mould in another few years.
How long does everyone think cars like this will be allowed to be put back on the road? Or even older cars been forced off the road?
My friend had a mk1 cortina console, it got stolen from the side of the road in lake rotoma(bop), we found it 2 weeks later in the forest, every panel was bashed in, pillars, roof, bonnet,guards etc, aswell as all the windows, head lights,grill, tail lights and the whole interior was trashed, it was such a shame to see
Those Starion’s went like a shot cat! Great car…🇦🇺🍺🍺
Weren't those Starions called Conquests in the States ?
@user-fe1hy9xv3s yeah but if you didn't over boost those 2.4 liters they ran like a raped ape. And the engine was north south and rear wheel drive. The ice blue on the Conquest TSI was a beautiful color. With turbo timers and msd overboost and rev limiter those engines would hold together these days. I should built one. Thanks for reminding me of those. 👊😎👍
He said his grandson wont listen... Ill be his grandson 😂
Nah his grandson has way more going for him then dealing with scrap metal...that mini stock u see in the video...he built that by himself..and if Pete don't get his way he will sulk like a baby
What a collection, really BIG, and ye you can not save them all in a life time. a lot good for spares, other rare cars can be fixed, greating from Hakke in the Netherlands.
They found a gold mine
My brother bought a brand new burgundy Cortina, RIP Tony
Wow new subscriber from Britain love it!
My dad had a Hillman Husky in the 1960s and in 1965 it was the car I learned to drive in and, passed my test at the first try in. Before that he had a Hillman Californian which was a pretty rare car. After the Husky he had a Singer Gazelle. I think my dad was a bit of a Rootes' Group fan.
The Riley Kestral was fairly common in the UK, as was the Wolseley Hornet. Both of them basically just tarted up Mini's. I remember the Grille on the Hornet being an absolute pain when you were working on them, it was like sticking your head into a crocodiles mouth. More than once did I cut my head on those B***** things.
The Vauxhall PA Velox and Cresta series, and the Victor FA series, those two cars took Vauxhall to the brink of bankruptcy. The corrosion problems were so extreme with body panels being replaced under warranty at just 10 months old. I remember after the corrosion became so extreme Vauxhall changed the inner wing panels so they had round holes plugged with big rubber grommets. In the handbook it told the owners to remove the grommets and wash out the cavities with a hosepipe regularly. You literally climbed into the boot with a garden hose and stuck it through the hole to wash out all the collected dirt from the top of those stupid American style fins. I also remember the PA Velox and Cresta with the three piece rear screen, having issues with the corner, triangular window glass breaking due to bodywork flexing. One place I worked there was a Cresta in workshop and the Owner of the garage was stood right next to it when one shattered. He was the only person in anywhere near it so he finally had to accept that it was not people deliberately breaking them. Memories.
Hillman California, nice car, Pillarless Hardtop, nice cream off white, an a wine/tan colour vinyl top, I remember the one we had when I was little.
Forgot, after that was a Black Super Snipe, Hell'uva long bonnet, a real limo, that car was a beauty, got all the kids in.
I think was a Mk4 1957
I wish I had that car today
Glad that you wrote about the Hillman Husky. I bought one from a farmer, and the top of the left wing had a large piece of tinplate pop-riveted on top. I didn't drive it for very long, but I enjoyed the Husky. In the time that I owned it, the Rear Seats remained flat-down, and there was Hay strewn all in the back area. I never, ever cleaned it. One day, I was driving the Husky up a very steep gradient. As I changed from 1st to 2nd gear, the whole Drivers Seat broke away (rust) from the floor! I couldn't keep a grip on the steering wheel, as I tumbled right back to the rear door! Of course the engine stalled - as I fought my way back. What a laugh it was at that time, because my girlfriend (sitting beside me) saw my 'vanishing act'. Seeing this Husky made me smile. I'm 75 now, and (in the sixties) all cars back then were rot-boxes.
My sister had a Singer Gazelle and I had a Ford Anglia Estate.
When you got to the ones rotting in the chook house ..I had to leave
Holy heck,amazing collection of cars i never thought id see again.
Dose that man know he's going to die one day,it's as if he's immortal.
What an amazing Collection. Such detail and perfection. Shame about the Guy doing the interview. A bit woooooed
The NSW police had the Starion Turbos for a while. Used to see them quite a bit on the highway between Canberra and Cooma. Car mounted radar units.
What an ALADINS'S CAVE OF CARS!!
Glad most are for sale as they need to be brought out of there...
Thanks for sharing!!
Yes the collection is all well & great but will any of these ever see tarmac again?...If not what a terrible waste!.
Used to live with pete, lovely genuine gentleman hes a lovely guy lots of respect and love for him
Peter is an amazing man. What you see is what you get. A big heart and obviously a huge love of cars. Much knowledge indeed. Just take time out to chat and learn something. Alan you are on to something really good. The future proves the past.
Sad thing is most of them are not worth anywhere near what a Subaru Legacy RS 89-91 is worth , the old jappa stuff has gone bonkers like the mk2 escorts, if that place was full of mk2 escorts bc5 Subarus and early imprezas it’d be worth 5 times as much .
And that’s not boasting it’s just facts these old cars gramps has got are mega cool but sadly mk1 4dr cortina’s just don’t pull big coin
i remember those old subi legacys gt and rs were a dime a dozen about 20 years ago and couldn't believe how much they go for now lol.
out of all the cars i had only had 1 subaru and that was a Vortex and was in great condition
The Mk3 GT certainly has original GT-style seats, even if the trim might not be. I remember my physics teacher had a red one that I lusted after...
PA Cresta/Velox came (back in 1959) in a 'sweet cream' colour that totally suited it's beautiful shape and uniqueness. Not 2-tone..!
Just all over a gorgeous 'light vanilla custard' colour . .
I owned one in NZ, bought from 'London Calling' of Gt Sth Rd Manurewa, in 1972, with 75,000 miles on the clock, and No Rust..!
What a beauty it was .. like moveable art .. on wheels !
The only 'worn' part needing fixing was the Solex downdraft carb throttle spindle bushing.
Loveliest car i ever had .. from that time since .. to now
Thats what I learned to drive on, The old Piaha road before it was sealed.
The NSW police Force Used Starions
Whats going to happen to all of these, scrap and sold....
Shit that was revisiting my childhood
That starion was beautiful
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The Riley Kestrel was a common car here in the UK back in the day, along with the Wolseley/MG etc versions. Very few left now of course.
really enjoyed this my first car was a 1956 veiox that I paid $300 for in 1976 when I got my first job working in a shearing gang in marlborough--my next car was a holden Kingswood and I have since then owned holdens they have always been very reliable over the years, my car now is a double cab 4/4 ute valued at $13000, I used to groom these types of cars in the 1980;s really enjoyed this job, the modern cars don't carry the flair like the 70/80 ones did.they never caved in like the modern cars do in a crash--they were built to last didn't need a car computer just a new set of points now and then.i really love the cars from our era,
Omg drool, the ultimate man cave. Thank you to you and the owner for the tour, what a great way to grow old !
Glad you enjoyed it
During my 10 years in Nz in the 90's I was lucky enough to see Ron Roycrofts collection and got to sit at the wheel of his Bugatti, I also found a guy in Auckland with a room full of Kawasaki triples that were covered in blankets that had been there for 15 years, then another chap in palmeston north with a Gold 71 H2 still in its box .... Kiwis look after there stuff, there wage's are low and the climate is good..
This man just has to do out a few caravans and open up as a Theme Park, they will come from miles to see these cars.
Im not a car guy but just wow. Beautiful cars owned by what seems a great chap. Like you said that knowledge is invaluable. Thanks for the video, enjoyable watch.
I used to see a pink and grey Vauxhall just such as the one here. It was regularly parked not far from the Wellington railway station.
If my memory serves me correctly, the Wolseley Hornet had the 1300 Cooper S motor in it with slightly smaller exhaust valves to improve low down torque.
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Remember some of those PAX Vauxhalls sitting behind a house in Rotorua. Told the Vauxhall club thinking surely someone would be keen for parts but nope.
Oh my word, I still miss my 1974 Mk3 Cortina 2.0 L Decor
Hey if you spot a tailgate for fj holden ute can ya drop me a line please 🙏
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Welcomed by a peace-sign cortina - it can only get better
I know what you mean, but not quite the same as the peace sign. Where they were built went through some not so peaceful events also, with strikes regularly. I think it was the Cortina that got the name "Dagenham Dustbin" but I always liked them.
Mk3 Cortina I had a few of those .........Awesome. 😍
I remember seeing these on unfinished projects, who ever was selling was 20x over priced and got laughed off the page, 20000nzd for a rusted moris minor lol