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NZ Police Museum Historic New Zealand police cars include the Holden EH Special. On August 25, 1920, the first recorded instance of investigating police using a motor car to attend the scene of a crime occurred following the murder (the previous day) of Sydney Seymour Eyre at Tuakau in South Auckland. Over the next 30 years, police got by on the smell of the proverbial oily rag, having to share the cost of running the vehicles with other Government departments. Police had to rely on a succession of unreliable second hand, mismatched examples. Stuff Transport Minister Peter Gordon talking ...

Young bought the rare Bentley in October 2018 and began the long restoration process. It was a body and frame with parts stored in three sheds at a country home in central England. He trucked the pieces to a friend’s home in southern England where the vehicle was roughly reassembled for its journey to Canada. The Bentley was on a ship when he learned of the new luxury tax. He immediately changed the shipping status to temporary import, realizing he would not want to pay the enormous cost to register the car in British Columbia. Once landed, Young spent approximately 2,400 hours undertaking ...