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Speaker 1: Big weekend in Central O Tigo, the inaugural Airburn Classic.

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Speaker 1: This is a narrow town. Hundreds of vintage and luxury

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Speaker 1: cars are going to be on show. Now the wind

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Speaker 1: and Bossa and the Airburn owner is Chris me and

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Speaker 1: who's with us? Chris morning, I tell you, I'm very well. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: it feels to me like a touch of the Pebble Beaches.

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Speaker 1: Has it got that sort of vibe about it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say more Goodwood than Pebble Beach. Pebble Beach

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Speaker 2: is a bit of gold buttons and cravats, but and

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Speaker 2: I think Goodwood's a bit more fun. So I certainly

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Speaker 2: sort of heading more towards the Goodwood style of event.

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Speaker 2: But it'll be a great thing for Chris own and

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Speaker 2: a great thing can give you on well.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, is this about Airburn, which

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Speaker 1: of people don't know as a facility in its own right?

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Speaker 1: Is it about Airburn or the regional both?

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Speaker 2: I think it's both mark and mean if you put

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Speaker 2: it in context. In a year and a half ago,

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Speaker 2: was a was a sheep addict that no one came to.

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Speaker 2: And now we've got ten restaurants and bars and a

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Speaker 2: fantastic winery and we're doing about forty thousand meals a month,

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Speaker 2: so it's a it's a big step up from being

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Speaker 2: a place that no one visited, and we just want

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Speaker 2: fun events like this to incurge people to just have

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Speaker 2: a great.

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Speaker 1: Weekend and the tourism. Are you seeing that in the

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Speaker 1: region itself doesn't need more events? I thought the place

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Speaker 1: was pa.

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Speaker 2: No, I think you've got you know, there's almost to

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Speaker 2: have be a reason for people to come down here.

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Speaker 2: I think we're providing a good reason and I think

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Speaker 2: in time we will be an event, you know, of

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Speaker 2: a caliber of the Marasson or the usualand to up

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Speaker 2: and go, and we'll get a lot of visitation from

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Speaker 2: overseas as well.

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Speaker 1: Good how many cars you got and what are they

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Speaker 1: tempt me? Are they all on you?

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Speaker 2: So if you had asked me a week, yea, we've

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Speaker 2: got about two hundred on display. But I think that's climbing,

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Speaker 2: probably closer to fifty. Now we've got everything from you know, Lamborghini's, Spaghetti's,

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Speaker 2: lots of Ferraris, Esther Martin Montroye, McClaren, loggers.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, isn't it? Because I don't know if you're

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Speaker 1: a car guy. But New Zealand has per head of population,

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Speaker 1: more cars than anyone else in the world apart from America.

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Speaker 1: And you hit the highway on any given Sunday and

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Speaker 1: the number of fantastic cars in people's garages or collections

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Speaker 1: is incredible.

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Speaker 2: It's been extraordinary. All the cars have just come up

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Speaker 2: with woodwork, particularly in the south Land. A lot of

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Speaker 2: them have stepped away and balanced and verizers and people

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Speaker 2: have had them for years and that they're itching for

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Speaker 2: a chance to hit them on display.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you have a good time with them, appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time. Chris Maham, who's the Winter and CEO and

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Speaker 1: the Airburn owner. For more from the my Casking Breakfast,

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