Famous or infamous cars you have worked on?

gunhand, Jun 28, 2:08am
Only two. Two ex ministerial cars, One, Rob Muldoon used, a large Black American LTD thing and Helen Clarks infamous speeding to the rugby car, NZ601.
sas777, Jun 28, 6:57am
Maybe not quite worked on but been involved with.

First production Mini, immaculate, being shown at Donnington Park I think, UK about 1984. Girlfriend at time thought it cute and wanted a photo close up on front. I was taking pics when someone told us to get back off the stand, she moved quickly and her handbag buckle scratched paintwork. Oh dear. We got a bollocking for that.

Few years before, our college class had a talk and demo from a Jaguar specialist who was building the Mercedes replica staff cars for 'Raiders of the lost arc' in his workshop in my home town. He came to the college to show us his tuned engine, as they wanted the cars to go pretty quick on the film set. The rest of the car was made up from old Jag bits, the last of the line full chassis model, mark 5 I think, to go with the E type engine. Later we were invited to his workshop when a local newspaper photographer came along for some pics for that weeks paper, I remember all of us pushing the car outside and quickly polishing it.
A few months later the movie came out and and a bunch of us went out to see it, with our lecturer in college time. Great! Happy days.
corky, Jun 28, 9:32am
Did a wheel alignment on a bright orange HQ V8 Holden being driven by
Prince Tui Teka.
whqqsh, Jun 28, 12:38pm
I worked on the first Ferrari Testarossa to enter the country, they have a big tapered woodruff key in the rear stub axle which had sheared, so I went down took measurements, made a standard key in our workshop then went back & filed the tapered sides. Sat for ages blueing, pressing, filing, bluing, pressing, filing.
The thing was a brand new bottle of blue, when I put it down I bumped it on the ground, a squirt of blue fired up, arced around & down. For a split second I freaked & then was amazed none of it got on the car. I stood up & looked vertically down & I could only see half of the trail of blue between the bottle & the trail & thanked my lucky stars. It's almost as if someone was helping me up there & had curved the blue in midair away from the car then under the line of the body again. I was a lot more careful on the rest of the job
differentthings, Jun 28, 1:51pm
Worked on David Tua's car. Pepsi took the one they gave him off him after the police caught him doing skids in a Mangere car park with his friends.
tgray, Jun 28, 2:41pm
Famous or infamous? Is there a difference?
piperguy, Jun 28, 4:04pm
Infamous. That means Very Famous, right?
chas10, Jun 28, 4:11pm
The BMW that ran down Blessi Gotingco on the north shore was repossessed and sold to an unsuspecting buyer. I would describe that car as infamous. A car well known for better reasons would be famous IMO
tintop, Jun 28, 4:13pm
Slept in the back of the 1962-63 Queens tour Rolls Royce for a couple of hours while it was parked overnight in the public service garage in Wellington.
rob_man, Jun 28, 4:22pm
Back in the 70s we had a couple who used to bring their cars in regularly for scrapes and dings, he had a Datsun 140J and she had one of those ugly Renault things that look like an Isuzu Piazza.
They were both terrible drivers and we saw one or the other every couple of weeks for a while until they just stopped coming.
They were found buried in a forest near Sydney, Doug and Isobel Wilson. Killed by the Mr Asia syndicate.
Then on a lighter note, Ali Williams would bring his sponsored Falcon to me to sort out the various mishaps before handing it back to the lease company.
gunhand, Jun 28, 4:56pm
Infamous = bad shit happened in it or with it. No one approves of what happen but it kinda gets very well known, and famous lol.
mrcat1, Jun 28, 5:16pm
Famous: 1. having a widespread reputation, usually of a favourable nature; renowned; celebrated:
a famous writer.
Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious.
Antonyms: unknown, obscure.

Infamous: 1. having an extremely bad reputation:
an infamous city.
2. deserving of or causing an evil reputation; shamefully malign; detestable:
an infamous deed.
3. Law. a. deprived of certain rights as a citizen, as a consequence of conviction of certain offenses.
b.of or relating to offenses involving such deprivation
tgray, Jun 28, 6:51pm
Ahh. Infamous sounds much more interesting.
lookoutas, Jun 28, 10:29pm
Worked on the Thames van that George Wilder pinched. Had a bullet hole through the side door, from where the cops had taken a pot-shot at him.
trogedon, Jun 28, 10:51pm
Slept in it - with our without the Queen?!
tony9, Jun 29, 12:46am
Sybil Lupp took me for a drive in her E-Type once. We had tea after.
tintop, Jun 29, 12:48am
lol - The duke and the queen were at government house for the night.

Hard case - security was those portable post things, and a rope with a sign that said 'dont touch' :)
beetle1234, Apr 5, 1:07pm
Help,d build the exhaust system on Trevor Crowes,s V8 Skoda rally car also fitted his tyre,s, Done the race tyre,s on Don Grindleys race car,an sppose the wheel,s an tyres of Terry Brown,s vette.