Dējāvu

Today developed into another milestone of sorts for NZV8. That achievement? Actually double in reality. First, you get to absorb two very nice cars owned by the same person in a single edition. Second, we managed to unearth a feature without hearing about it through the grapevine before it was complete. I can tell you now, in little ol’ New Zealand where degrees of separation are counted on two fingers, hiding a nice car from us is pretty hard.

That person who owns these two features? Yep, Auckland’s one and only Charlie Bailey. For those who don’t recognise the name, may I point you towards our subscriptions dept where you will find back issues of NZV8, or search themotorhood.com, where you’ll uncover a few of the many Bailey cars we’ve exposed thus far.

The day we rocked up to photograph Charlie’s Nova, hiding in the back of the shop was a glimmer of fridge white poking out from beneath a padded cover. “What’s that?” we asked.

“Oh, nothing much.” “Can we have a look?” Sensing