Pics from Beach Hop car festival Whangamata New Zealand

[Bob T]

Howdy Folks, I took a week off work and headed down to Whangamata for the annual Beach Hop show the other week. Its about a 2 hour drive down the coast and the normally quiet town of 4000 turns into car and rock n roll central with 30,000 people and cars turning up for a week automotive fun.

The entries to the main cruises and park ups are capped around 1300 but thousands more people just turn up in their cool cars and hang out. Everywhere you cruise around people are chilled out and just enjoying the happy vibe, didnt see any trouble all week, the cops are around but as long as you dont do any dumb stuff or big skids or walk around with booze, then its all good.

It was a really neat experience going in the main parade heading out to Onemana, all the way out there, ( about 10 miles from town ) people had got up early and staked out the vantage points with chairs, shade shelters and chilly bins with refreshing cold drinks and they all would cheer or wave when you came past, apparently the line went on for 2 hours!!

Caught up with heaps of mates from around the country, cruised the old car a lot and at nights when we went back to the pad, me and my buddy drank beer and played guitars, a most excellent holiday 

Enough talky, now some pics...

[Bob T]

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I found Hemi Place. A few pics with Matts 70 R/T
Yeah - definetly thought about going back with some tinsnips to get the sign 

[Bob T]

Blowen Chally, 68 Dart GTS, 600hp Stroker Valiant Hardtop and I caught up with a guy who also had a black 68 R/T , had a pistol grip 4 speed in it and discs all round, quite nice too.

[Bob T]

And then there were 3 

And this attractive young Lady photobombed it, was'nt too much of a hardship though...

Greg Murphy's Hemi Coronet

[Bob T]

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Modern retro creation and some guy who makes sci-fi retro sculptures

[Bob T]

Roberts 4spd Daytona and some hungarian guy Gabor that I met in the main street , he runs  yankeecars.hu an alternative look at cars in Hungary
The bands were playing up and down the main street in bars and on trucks , neat 

[Bob T]

Todds Caddy.
Hey Dan 68X426, I know you'll like this Power Wagon   The guy drives it everywhere.
Plenty of cars up from the South Island, some from Aussie and a few come over from the States.
Excellent week!

I did a short clip of the cruise up the main drag, cars parked up in the middle and the other cruise is coming back up the street in the other direction at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI_vX89HSQI

[darkside]

great pics!

[1974dodgecharger]

The only car that is better than yours is that Daytona  but your a close 2nd bob.  I was looking through the pics thinking bob has the best car then saw that Daytona.

[tan top]

good pictures BT , thanks for sharing   

[timmycharger]

 

Thanks for sharing!! great pics!

[twodko]

Very nice indeed Bob! Lots of nice custom work too. My favorite shot is the 2 Chargers on the grass with
that gorgeous bay as a back drop.

The gal in the pink top drivers side in the YouTube vid was quite the healthy bird no? 

As always, good on ya Bob.

[Bob T]

Thanks Guys, I had a blast! The weather was fantastic and just thousands of Petrolheads all enjoying the same thing. If any of you Gearheads were planning a trip down here, then Beach Hop is a must see!

Tom , there were 3 Chargers on the grass and I saw another on on the hill on the way in, getting pretty common eh , I bet you paused the vid clip eh 

74dc, the Daytona belongs to a mate of mine, neat car, is 4 speed R4, have driven it too, real nice, looks tough with the Aero wheels on it too.


There is an official fb page with heaps of pics on, there are some guys doing serious custom work , look out for the pale yellow COE transporter, super cool truck

https://www.facebook.com/BeachHopCars

[twodko]

"Tom , there were 3 Chargers on the grass and I saw another on on the hill on the way in, getting pretty common eh , I bet you paused the vid clip"

You know I did.......couple times. 

She truly needs a thorough surface area survey.

[69rtse4spd]

Great, thanks  . 

[darkside]

is that 70 r/t top banana or cytron yella?

I found Hemi Place. A few pics with Matts 70 R/T
Yeah - definetly thought about going back with some tinsnips to get the sign 

[68X426]

I finally got around to checking this thread.  Good times, eh.

Yes I love that Power Wagon. 

Thanks for the pics. 

[Bob T]

is that 70 r/t top banana or cytron yella?

I found Hemi Place. A few pics with Matts 70 R/T
Yeah - definetly thought about going back with some tinsnips to get the sign 

Its Top Banana, just my cellphone pics let it down a bit.

Yeah, cool fun Dan, the spoiler for the truck is its sbc powered, but cool nonetheless.
After finding Hemi Place while I was down there, this week I've found Daytona Road, man, that sign will take some beating if the tinsnips ever get near it ( looks over shoulder for traffic )