A Series One Landy in pride of place...

[peteb2]

Here's an image that was a Postcard back in the 1960s. This is Ferry Landing, Whitianga on the Coromandel and parked in centre shot where the owner always left it is his Series One. I was a kid then, all of 6 yrs old probably and the reason this image is so familiar to me it's that's my 2 brothers and mother standing by the the old wooden derrick crane. (A copy of the postcard has lain around in family photo albums for years)... I'd have been at school that day and our mother tells the story of taking a walk that morning 'down the hill' when a lady asked her please go be in the the photo she was about to take...

I recall the Landy was owned by a Mr Gilbert Reeves, a retired gent and usually when it was parked there it meant he was across the estuary savouring the local pub's contents. I used to fish off the jetty as any kid did then and i can remember him regularly stumbling off the ferry (pictured) and just making it to the vehicle, starting it, almost driving it forward off the end of the jetty before finding reverse, turning around and in what must have been a complete haze slowly making for home! I don't think the machine ever did any hard work in this part of its life.

I can recall though how the Landy would always be there, all day and whenever i poked my beedie kid's eyes inside it i recall the keys were always there left hanging in the ignition. Boy people were trusting back then.

I wonder now what happened to the machine....

[smurf182]

Nice bit of nostalgia there mate