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The Great Retro Caravan Escape 2020

Whangamatā › Coromandel Peninsula

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There is no doubt that Covid-19 screwed up a few of the events we like to attend including the Beach Hop, normally held in March. It was postponed until late November, and as fate would have it they chose the very weekend that we were planning to hold a 75th anniversary celebration rally for Liteweights. That weekend coincided with the anniversary of my dad completing his first caravan 75 years earlier while on accumulated leave from the air force, before being demobbed. What to do? Our friend Peter Nunn who founded the NZ Retro Car and Caravan Club was planning to attend the Stragglers car show on the Sunday before

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