Colin Pinkerton's Iron Park workshop is his happy place - but now the whole collection is up for auction.
Colin Pinkerton's Iron Park workshop is his happy place - but now the whole collection is up for auction.
Since giving up milking cows about 20 years ago Colin Pinkerton's passion has been collecting and restoring vintage tractors, cars and farm machinery and implements.
When he and wife Lynn built on their retirement property on Pirongia Rd, sheds for workshops and housing the growing collection were also a priority.
Two of the tractors that will be sold.
And Colin didn't just keep his passion to himself - Iron Park as the property was known - became a well known private museum and the Pinkertons hosted visiting car, machinery, tractor and service clubs over the years, as well as small groups and locals keen to see the contents.
"We would have hosted thousands of people over the years," says Colin.
Now health concerns and planning for the future sees the whole collection about to go under the hammer.
Colin says it isn't just big items - it is everything.
Everything sorted ready for the auction.
What started as cars, tractors and farm implements grew to include radios, telephones, tools ... if it was old and could be fixed and displayed it seemed to come to Iron Park.
Colin says people would donate things to the museum, so the collection started taking on a life of its own.
