After much work, Sunday, 24th August, proved to be a great success. As always, working with the FGS Buddhist Temple team is so easy.

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I invited many Auckland one-make clubs and was really pleased to have 11 accept, another couple turned up on the day. The more the merrier, I say!

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Nationally, we received the support of Ford NZ. At the Branch level, we had to approach a dealer then and gauge their interest in being part of the day. South Auckland Motors was the logical choice with showrooms in Botany and Manukau, plus three other locations. Mike and his team were keen to join us.

 

I chose to invite Auckland Harley-Davidson to the display too. Ray Pratt, owner, was very keen and even went as far as donating a Helmet for a Raffle on the day. This was a generous donation and certainly added to our total dollar collection for the day.

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We are really pleased to announce that our final total transferred to the Auckland Cancer Society is $8,500. 

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Thank you to all of you who came out to display your vehicles. We really appreciate your help in making the display a great feast for the eyes. There were almost 180 vehicles on display. The one make club with the highest count of cars present was the Auckland Corvette Club, they had 15 cars on display. They sounded pretty damn awesome, too!

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We were also privileged to have a few VIPs visit our show as well. We had Kaaren Smylie, National Coordinator of the Daffodil Rally for the VCC of NZ, Garry Jackson, President of the Federation of Motoring Clubs NZ, Annaliese Atina, Managing Director of Ford NZ, and Lucy Humphreys from the Auckland Cancer Society. It was lovely to welcome them all to our display.

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Now to plan next year’s event. We’ve already got one-make clubs signing up, and the Temple team are very keen to host us again. Wahoo!

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THANK YOU ALL

Jodi