NZ Classic Car

Just giving it a go

Car restoration is not usually a forte of the sightless, so we asked Neville Falconer why and also how. Don’t go thinking that it was all his friends and colleagues in the New Zealand Stag Owners Club or professional services that did all the work.

Neville was hands on for more of the work than you might suspect. “I removed the gearbox totally by myself, and refitted it,” he says.

That’s still somewhere on the astounding

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