Mazsyve Brown admires a 1934 hot rod at The Big Show held at Tairāwhiti Aviation Museum over the weekend. Picture by Paul Rickard
The Big Show charity fundraiser has been hailed “a great success”.
Held over two days at the Tairāwhiti Aviation Museum, the Show featured hot rods, classic and muscle cars, boats, aircraft, motorcycles, vintage military vehicles and radio-controlled model cars.
The star of the Show was a 1934 Duesenberg Auburn which
featured in the 1984 hit movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and its crew took part, as did a chopper crew from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, who, not ones to stand around, put themselves to use behind the barbecue.
Among the activities enjoyed by adults and children alike was a World War 2-era Allison V12 engine start-up demonstration from a 1943 P-40 Kittyhawk.
