THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS PART 2
Sep 10, 2021
4 minutes
By Shane Gilchrist
photography supplied and Otago Daily Times
There are more than a few stories beneath the hoods of the three rare cars parked in the workshop out the back of a house in Ophir.
Sure, one could focus solely on each of the one-of-a-kind 1934 Bugatti Gangloff Roadster Type 57, the 1907 Sizaire et Naudin, or the 1904 Humber Humberette. Certainly, they are interesting enough vehicles. But it’s perhaps better to approach the machines as lenses on the life of their intriguing former owner.
Bob Turnbull died in 2012 at the age of 82. He’d never married, had no long-term partners, nor left behind any children. Yet he left a legacy: memories
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