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Title: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 01:09:57 AM

Photo dump from yesterday's Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet.

1. 38 Ford
2. Horns
3. Fastback
4. "If there's room, I sit"

Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 01:49:48 AM

The show advertises itself as a "If it's got an engine, bring it"

1 & 2. The tractor unit my friend Gene drives for Rotorua Forest Haulage, with a low loader shifting machinery all around the country
3. A good line up of trucks
4. The Grass Company's set-up

Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 02:02:11 AM

1, 2 & 3. Swap Contractors, Matamata's biggest company with quarries, contracting, and transport operations all over the Waikato
4. Waharoa Transport, another local transport company, DAF XF. The H in the yellow rectangle means that the truck is a HMPV (High Productivity Motor Vehicle) operating on defined routes at a weight over the normal 44 ton (97,000lb), 20m (65.5') limit. From the axle configuration I would say it is the most common HPMV configuration called 50Max, 50 tons (110,250lb), at 25m (82') long. HPMV trucks can run up to 64 tons (141,000lb), but only on a limited number of routes.

Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 02:15:50 AM

1. Brenic Transports Kenworths running as 50Max HPMVs. The cart general freight as well as being contracted to Lawn Master, a New Zealand lawnmower manufacturer
2. Weallan Groundspread's Kenworth 50Max used for carting fertiliser to their bulk spreader trucks that spread it around farms
3. Hanes Transport's KW transporter set up. They bought this set up a month ago and it only came out of the paint shop on Thursday. This is the same type of trailer that Gene tows
4. Detail

Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 02:22:08 AM

1. Hanes Transport conventional transporter, Freightliner
2 & 3. 1969 Austin Van cut into a ute. Powered with a Toyota supercharger 4age
4. Main Line Distribution's Kenworth 50Max B-train

Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 02:24:30 AM

1. Ride on lawnmower towed kids train
2. Chev remote control car (plastic)
3. VW something model (steel)
4. Repco sales cabinet

Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 02:31:10 AM

1, 2 & 3. Ratrod. With a straight 6 Chrysler or Chev truck engine (can't remember which) bored out to 310ci with a front mounted supercharger
4. Sewing machines made into tractors

Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 02:32:42 AM

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Title: Re: 2019 Matamata Car-O-Rama and Swapmet
Post by: Rural53 on March 18, 2019, 02:41:31 AM

Burn out ute throwing smoke. I was still feeling dehydrated from Saturday so I didn't stay long. There were not as many vehicles there as last year. There were a couple of other car events on in the region yesterday.