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Speaker 1: While we're on the subject of cars, the Ebbooon Classic

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Speaker 1: is back on this weekend. Country's biggest, most outrageous and

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Speaker 1: glamorous car show. It's Beautiful also features the country's largest

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Speaker 1: live car rocks. Taylor Campbell's the director of Sunday Drive

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Speaker 1: and as with there's Taylor morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning from beautiful Arrowtown. How are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed? Is it beautiful? The forecast good, it's all set

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Speaker 1: to go.

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Speaker 2: Yes, stunning looking up over the La Pays right now,

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Speaker 2: it's calm, it's the stun is coming out. We're looking

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Speaker 2: good today for sure.

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Speaker 1: It's not old. Why has it growing so quickly?

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Speaker 2: The Ebon Classic, the festival is in its second year

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Speaker 2: this year, and it's his first year. You know, it

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Speaker 2: was a great event, but I think it's probably about

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Speaker 2: three times in size now and it's just you know,

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Speaker 2: it's about five hundred cars on display. I think it's

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Speaker 2: sold out to capacity almost and just the stunning setting,

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Speaker 2: you know, the air, in estate, the hospitality, the cars,

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Speaker 2: it's just a great max. I mean, i'd compare what's

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Speaker 2: building here to the New Zealand version of Pebble Beach.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say Monterey pebble beach, quails,

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Speaker 1: something like that. That's what we're thinking. So it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's.

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Speaker 1: Everything's there, isn't it in terms of cars, old new, cheap,

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Speaker 1: expense of brilliant, forgettable, the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. It's actually up for an International Motoring Award

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Speaker 2: this year as well break Through Event of the Year,

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Speaker 2: which is judged by Jay Leno. So yeah, definitely definitely

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Speaker 2: building on an international stage here.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming also very good for the region in terms

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Speaker 1: of tourism and people flying in and spending the weekend

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Speaker 1: stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's, it's it's been amazing. We've been set up

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Speaker 2: here in our auction showrooms since Wednesday and you know,

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Speaker 2: the people coming through, international and local, it's yeah, it's it's.

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Speaker 2: It's been exciting. We've meeting a lot of a lot

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Speaker 2: of people and it's created a really good vibe. I mean,

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Speaker 2: whole hold of Queen's Town's buzzing at the moment. It's

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Speaker 2: very busy down here this auction.

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Speaker 1: That you're running these cars when you called for cars,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it say something about what's available in barns and

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Speaker 1: garages and sheds up and down this country. We're obsessed

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Speaker 1: with cars.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, Like fun fact, I think New Zealand has

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Speaker 2: one of the highest classic ownerships capita in the world. So,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're an Auckland based company and when we

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Speaker 2: were tasked with putting this auction on down the other

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Speaker 2: end of the country, it was it was a little

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Speaker 2: bit daunting to find what was supposed to be a

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Speaker 2: maximum of forty cars. But I mean we've you know,

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Speaker 2: we've carefully curated over the last nine months what we

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Speaker 2: think is the best lineup for a live auction New

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Speaker 2: Zealand's ever seen. And I'm talking. We've done seven South

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Speaker 2: Island tours and you know, meeting these collectors or vendors

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Speaker 2: and their their homes and it's just been mind blowing

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Speaker 2: for myself and the team on these tours. The amount

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Speaker 2: of cars that people have in their sheds around this country,

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Speaker 2: it's just yeah, it's it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: What's the star of the show, do you think? And

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Speaker 1: what will it go for?

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Speaker 2: Headline? Is the like homing special for sure. So this

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Speaker 2: is a really special car. It's considered, you know, the

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Speaker 2: most famous and loved race car in New Zealand. It's

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Speaker 2: an alloy body two set a home built race car

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Speaker 2: with the like homing aircraft engine in it. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: this dominat of racetracks in New Zealand and the sixties,

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Speaker 2: and what kind of made it even more famous that

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Speaker 2: it was raised here by Formula one driver Jim Clark

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Speaker 2: and also Bruce McLaren.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck with it this weekend. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: it goes for. It'll go. The other end is I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at a fifty seven land Drover Series one, thirty

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Speaker 1: to fifty grand. It's in the appropriate green, it's got

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Speaker 1: the canvas back rebuilt. Only a couple of thousand miles

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Speaker 1: since it got rebuilt. Thirty to fifty grand for a

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Speaker 1: Series one Landrover wouldn't want that? What about an Nowdi Equatro?

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Speaker 1: They got one of those going in eighty five Outiquatro

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Speaker 1: that are a classics. A couple of Americans that aren't

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Speaker 1: my favorite. Disproportionate number of Porsches. If you're into Porsches,

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Speaker 1: there's a McLaren there. What about an M three Cop

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Speaker 1: eighty seven, one of the classics. If you want an

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Speaker 1: M three, that particular model is the one you want.

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Speaker 1: So any way, it's all this weekend and airburners if

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Speaker 1: you've never been there or seen it, absolutely glorious. That's

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Speaker 1: Tayler Campbell, who's the director of Sunday Drive. So another

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Speaker 1: great weekend in Central Otaga to help the economy and

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