Over the last 3 months I took on a part time selling job selling a promotional Mat for a an established enterprise --simply because Relief teaching is getting harder to get - very few teachers are leaving schools ; no ones retiring (They should retire!); no ones getting sick and teachers no longer do extra courses in term time as funding has been cut. Besides before I was a teacher I was a salesmen for close on 20 years.
In the course of my cold call visits I seen some amazing sights of car collections secretly stored - The Hutt Valley is a Goldmine - Who reads NZV8 these days? Many of the so called Dream Garages stries - comes from Garages held in here in the Hutt Valley on commercial premises hidden away from view!
For Example I not going to say where but i discovered the biggest hoarde of ultra rare Porsche 911 Carrera ; Turbo and racing models in a metal shed all in their corcoons - the most amazing one was black low to the ground Porsche 911 Turbo 934 RSR that raced at Le Mans in 1986by a Count
But to Opels - I believe I have sigted 1 of the 3 original NZ new Opel Cablibra 4x4 Turbos -covered in dust and in black with a Zender kit its currently stored at Classic Car Services LTD in Alicetown - It was previusly owned by a young upward moving couple who sold it for a Saab 900S Convertible and reg number used parts of their names; they were often seen around Petone - Nice couple I met then once or twice!
Of course 1 of 3 Zender Opel Calibras was brought for the then Saarchi & Saarchi Advertising agent who looked after the GM NZ account - I think initially it was the first of the 3 and GM NZ had a devil of a job getting one - However he (and he was rather arrogant so I am told) showed his displeasure by selling it 3 weeks later for a BMW M3!