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Originally Posted by ZMEnow
Auckland, You run a cattle catcher on the front? Seriously, that’s awesome.
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Hah, we normally get sheep jokes, as in the 70s there were about 70 million of them to 3 million human population!
Seriously, there are quite a few Gen5 Camaros and and even larger proportion of ZL1s in New Zealand. We have a very strong petrol head culture in the older generation. I think this was due to post-WWII where was very little leisure activity on the weekends. The shops and pubs were closed, and most modern-day leisure activities did not exist! There was little else to do except church, rugby, horse racing, movie theatre, or mow the lawn. The economy was "closed" and imports of USA vehicles were strictly limited to purchase by such as farmers who generated "overseas funds" from exports. The local heroes of the day for the younger set, were New Zealand racing drivers in F1 and Le Mans, such as McLaren, Hulme, etc.
I think that this environment created the interest in motor sport and USA vehicles eg.
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