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Finz
The Glory Days of Cadillac May
21
My tropical
Torquoise blue ‘58!
FINZ Magazine Editor: Ron Melville
Recipient of (CLC) The Yann Saunders
International Activity Award 2013
The Maurice Hendry Award for Excellence in
Rendezvous!
Journalistic Contributions - 2015
International Newsletter Excellence Award - 2015
Old Cars Weekly ~ Golden Quill Award 2011,
2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020
Contributions to: finzmagazine@gmail.com
Hi all. Guess what? We just scored another Old Cars - ‘Golden
The Editior reserves the right to accept or reject
Quill Award’ thanks to your efforts in making our little magazine
any contributions.
a stand-out amongst the old car magazine world! Actually we
Deadline is 20th of each month
are in good company. Our friends from the CLC in Australia,
North Texas, North Jersey USA and the LaSalle Appreciation
Society also picked up a Golden Quill. Read elsewhere.
Infact, let me share a little secret with you - this month’s cover
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is the fifth Kiwi Cadillac to appear on the cover this year! I have
a couple more Kiwi Cadillacs put aside I can use in coming
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issues and Kiwi content this month is amongst the most I have
received and been able to publish for many an issue. Keep it
up - your Editor and Executive will love you for it!!
Talking about love, Pres. Ian Lind sent me in a story of he and
Elsie’s beloved ‘58 which enjoys this months cover. It is a fine
club example and looks befitting with their tropical garden
background at their New Plymouth property. This pic could
have been taken in Hawaii in the 1950s!
Also in our Kiwi-packed issue this month we have coverage
from Beach Hop and elswhere in the country as a result of
Kiwi members getting out and about over our Kiwi Covid-free
summer!
Details of our 2021 Cadillac Nationals are included here plus a
special flyer is attached. Have a read and I suggest you book
now for what should be a “cool” event, if you will excuse the
pun - when you see where the venue is.
Please keep up the momentum and send in your Kiwi stories
and photos! Safe cruising as temps drop down a gear! Ron -
Ed
We formed our New Zealand club in 1973 and celebrated our 40th Anniversary in 2013 making us one of the oldest Cadillac clubs in the world.
We are proud to be an International Affiliate of the world-wide Cadillac LaSalle Club of the USA - itself formed in 1958.
Huntly in The Waikato
Hi Ron, a quick report on the Huntly Lake Hop from Sat. 27th March. A new event
for the Huntly area at the old solid energy mine site. This is now in private ownership
and the owners are restoring the lake and eventually will be a aquatic park for
swimming,kayaking etc, with bush walks etc.This is an amazing venture and the show
was to raise awareness of the project. There was a great turnout of cars, of every
description. Fire trucks, army vehicles and a great display of old MOT cars. The 57 finally
got an outing, now back together after the Raglan AGM disaster. Only 4 Cadillacs on
show being my 57, a very familiar 69 Eldorado, a super cool 50 sedan from Auckland and
a late model CTS. It was certainly a great event with a band and entertainment for the
kids and a whole heap of interesting cars. This will be a annual event so bring on next
year, Cheers Ian B [Thanks Ian. Great looking show, great pics and great article - Ed] 3
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Thanks to Kevin Condor (BoP) and Debra
Beach Hop beauties Wilford (Taranaki) for sending me a terrific
selction as below - Ed
There were a few Caddy members at this
years Beach Hop. Steve, my brother-in-law
Mark and myself just got to Waihi Warm-
up but that was fun enough for those that
didn’t have the time or accomodation!
Maybe next year? Ed
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Above - just goes to prove
‘every dog and his man
was there! ‘
Publication details - ‘FINZ’ (2021 ‘The Glory Days Series’) is Copyright to The Cadillac & La Salle Club of NZ Inc. Publication is distributed via email and snail mail. All
correspondence to the editor: finzmagazine@gmail.com Artwork/design layout and technical support by Shea’ Melville (shea.melville@gmail.com). Ideas and concepts
by Ron Melville and many inserts from Editors own collection, both hard and electronic copy. We thank all contributors world-wide for permitting publication, use of items
and advertisers for your ongoing support. To advertise, email editor for rates. FINZ is a non-profit club publication and printed for club members and readers enjoyment.
No responsibility taken for errors or ommissions. The name FINZ is copyright to the Cadillac LaSalle Club of New Zealand formed in 1973 and original magazine name conceived circa 1974.
FINZ is proudly made of and in New Zealand! FINZ Magazine under Ron Melville Editorship is in Year 13, Issue 5 - May 2021 and is ‘The Glory Days Series’
More memories of Fred Bausch!
More great old photos of yester-year were found for this issue: Auto Shows Proved Popular to Des Moines Motoring Enthusiasts. You may
not consider Des Moines, Iowa to be an automotive capital, but its motorized heritage actually runs deep. In 1887, William Morrison
built an electric car in a downtown Des Moines basement laboratory. Fred and August Duesenberg got their start building Mason cars
in a garage on Des Moines’ Locust Street. And the capital city was home to Iowa’s first automobile show in May 1910. Revolving eight-
pointed stars marked each manufacturer’s display at the 1940 Auto Show.
Wouldn’t you like to step back in time and check out the used cars on the lot at Barton Inc., a Pontiac dealership tonight? Images
courtesy of Americar. [It reminds me of a scene from American Graffiti, albeit a few years later! - Ed]
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Fred King Motors LTD: Chrysler – Dodge – Fargo Trucks. This
early-1960s image contains Fred King Motors LTD located at
“Kings Corner” in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, at 11th and
3rd Ave. South in what appears to be a converted house.
It appears that only used cars are on display here, so new
car sales may have been handled elsewhere. When this
Chrysler Products sales agency was formed is unknown at
this time; however, the earliest reference we found was a
newspaper advertisement placed in 1958. A Lethbridge
August 1966 “Yellow Pages” ad lists King Motors at this same
location. A circa 1970 photo exists at Lethbridge – A Visual
History showing a modern purpose-built building for the
dealership with no reference to its location. Image courtesy
of Americar.
Above right - 1870s buildings and 1940s to ’50s cars line the
center of this 19th-century mining boom town [Very cool -
Ed]
mY ‘58 Caddy! It came from the USA. It is a very pretty torquoise blue colour and it
lives in the owners tropical garden oasis. All the trappings of the late
1950s Copacabana-scene, so colourful and lavish back then. Enjoy the
entertaining read on how Pres. Ian and First Lady Elsie came to own such
a beautiful example: My 1958 Cadillac coupe Deville....
It was thinking it must be about 2007 or 8 when I had just finished
restoring a 1934 Buick roadster convertible and with little else to do, I
decided one evening to just surf the net (like we do!!) with no specific
reason in mind, just killing time looking at old cars!
I fortunately stumbled on a site that was selling a Cadillac on behalf of
an estate [they call them a consular in the States], I think that’s how you
spell it. 6
Wow I was impressed with the Caddy and as they say, the rest is history.
We made contact with the agent [Consular] acting for the family to
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find out more details about the car. It had been parked-up in an elderly
gentleman’s garage with a couple of other cars for an extremely long
time and not been driven for some 15-20 odd years.
The family had settled on a price that they thought was a good market
value????? We thought it wasn’t far out of the ball-park and so we made
an offer to buy. That is when all hell broke out. No way was the family
going to see Pop’s pride and joy leave the States and so they declined our
offer. We tried a counter offer with more dollars but to no avail.
We pretty much resigned to the fact that we would just settle on our
1934 Buick and enjoy that for the time being until the energy to look
again for a project.
Some 8-10 weeks later when again doing evening surfing on the net,
HELLO what’s this 1958 Cadillac doing still on the market and unsold?
Hence a quick email to the agent to see what the hell was going on and
as we originally thought the car was overpriced for the American market
anyway.
We resurrected our first offer and hello we had them talking. They
suggested that if we lifted our offer they could yes, could make a deal!
However I was confident we had the cards and so declined to lift our offer
and we waited to hear.
The following two weeks seemed like two months but they eventually
replied and accepted our offer. Immediately we started the process to get
payment to them to secure the vehicle, which we then had transported
to an agent facility in California. >>>Continued next page
My ‘58 Caddy! The Cadillac arrived in Auckland some six weeks
later and we were excited to drive up and secure the
car that made Marilyn Monroe so famous.
Unfortunately when we arrived the car had been
damaged by an undesirable half brain delinquent
forklift driver who had hit the front of the car with
the front forks, damaging the front left fender and
the front edge of the bonnet and laying over the
bonnet finials!!!!!!
We were set for the haul back to the Naki with
a damaged car. Have you ever tried to claim
insurance from a shipping company? Soooooo
frustrating! 7
We gassed up with some NZ Gas and set off. Well
all went well to Rangiriri when we heard a common
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sound that you just don’t want to know, and as we
Great ‘50s interior. Look at finally lost power it was inevitable we had a sick
that padded seating. engine.
We waited six hours for a towing truck to load us up
Top - Always ouch when and get us on our way to New Plymouth.
the big end goes thats for We started immediately to strip the car of its engine
sure. and yes, we had a dropped the big end bearing with
extensive bore damage in two cylinders. We should
Lower left - Family have known that the car had been off the road and
memories and the family not running for a lengthy duration and should have
Cadillac. The Wedding added some oil to the gas tank!
photographer always Reaching out to the States for a complete rebuild
knows how to take the engine kit and assembly, cost $$$$ plus we decided
right pose. to do the auto gear box and diff at the same time.
The Caddy was sucking back a few thousand
Lower right - Trailering in dollars!
the States Today the Caddy is and has been our family
wedding car for our three daughters and our
comfort drive tour car to the deep South of
Invercargill to the ‘Far North’ and the beautiful Bay
of Islands.
We hope we get more safe
travelling miles from her
before we pass her on to her
new owners one day.
Ian and Elsie Lind
NZ Club House-keeping
Our Club Treasurer, has been informed by the Clubs Bank (ANZ)
that cheques will no longer be able to be issued or received by
the Club. This comes into affect around mid-2021.
Just returned from the pre 49 hot rod nationals in Christchurch
Members who have previously paid by cheque should set-up over Easter. I have spoken to Grant and extended a warm
an auto payment NOW (to commence 1st September this welcome to him as our new Treasurer, which he has duly
year and Annually thereafter) to pay your annual subs. This will accepted, following Lois’stepping down from the role.
alleviate you forgetting to make your internet payment. THE Grant and Barb are currently in the South Island holidaying
CLUB WILL BE UNABLE TO ACCEPT CHEQUES FOR YOUR ANNUAL
SUBS in months to come.
after retiring last month and will be away for a few weeks.
On his return we will commence the hand over from Lois to
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Grant. Kind regards Ian Lind, President
For those members affected, an Auto Payment form is
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attached so you can set it up and take it ot your bank NOW to
process.
YOUR Editor advises: I have had a few requests of late for ‘Snail-
mail’ copies of FINZ Magazine. Those that have subscribed
have paid their annual $55 to cover printing and postage
costs. If you wish a copy, simply email me:
finzmagazine@gmail.com and I am happy to add you to the
‘Paid Subscription List’- Ed
Thanks Rob McCann from the
very deep south. More pics
elsewhere of this beautifully
painted limo. Ed
Counting down to CLC NZ’s 50th & the 2021Cadillac Nationals!
Hey folks - did you know there is only approx. 41 months to go Have read of the 2021 Cadillac
to our ‘Half-Century Club Celebration?’ Nationals (1st to 3rd October) to be
held at Chateau, Ruapaheu. View
Wellington Regional Delegate ‘Jason Currie’ has been busy the attachment. From Frances’
behind the scenes for the last couple of years ‘pencilling’ ideas desk is the following -
and checking out venues and places to go. Thanks to Noeleen for brochure
information.
Whilst we are some way off from seeing the booking details,
Jason and his team are inviting any suggestions that maybe Booking accommodation
out ‘in the club domain’ (so to speak) knowing that some of
best suggestions come from the members themselves at the
information: Ph 0800 242 832 or
07 892 3809
9
‘coal-face!’
Access Code
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G-CadillacClub21
So if you have a sterling idea, drop Jason an email and tell him Rate Code ED15
about it. You can email him at: curried@hotmail.com Room Rate 15% of BAR.
Programme etc. below to be
confirmed at a later date.
Registration: $70 (this is for the
Saturday night 3 course dinner.)
Friday night dinner, and breakfast ($25) are extras, pay your own way.
Some will eat dinner on way over, others there on arrival.
Saturday drive to Ohakune, Horopito motors, railway museum, Tangiwai
memorial or free to look around. Saturday night dinner and Auction.
Sunday, up gondola to café, (optional time, can do at a time to suit
them after sleep in) . Or club can organise tickets etc.
I will supply later information on how to buy tickets for this. Check out
the link below. This has all info on mountain
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=416098626167843
Frances.
Glory Days in an Eldorado! ~Part One ~
Earlier this year, Jason and
his family went Eldo-riding
down South. Jason sent me a
superb a selection of wonderful
‘Dashboard Postcards’ from
their Epic Kiwi Summer Roadtrip
around the South Island in
the Eldo recently: Across to
Picton on the ferry, down to
Christchurch, Queenstown and
Wanaka, over to Haast and up
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the West Coast to Nelson and
back home!
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I always thought owning a
classic car would be hard work,
like travelling with a toddler:
moments of amusement, but
mainly temperamental and
unpredictable, and likely to
abruptly stop you by the side of
the road with spills and tears....
Bias aside, I have to say the Eldo
has impressed me this trip. For
over 2,000kms, it just happily
and comfortably devoured the
road for hours at a time without
missing a beat (aside from a
moment of exciting brake fade
after a particularly long and
steep downhill forest slalom!)
This is such a great car! Regards,
Jason
PS- I will feature Jasons great
pics over the next few issues -
EdGlory Days of Cadillac
Global Family
As advised on page Two, our NZ Club proudly stands on the
world stage alongside the other high achievers from many
clubs around the globe that tirelessly promote their marque
through their regular publications, which are Internationally
acknowledged as the ‘life-line’ of any club. Here’s what
the Judges of the GOLDEN QUILL AWARDS basically said:
“Creativity abounds during COVID-19 with old car pubs”.
Presenting the Cadillac family ‘Old Cars’ Golden Quill Award
winners 2020. Note - Vince Taliano is the Editor of the Potomac 11
Region CLC Mag and also Chev club. Jeff Shively is the Editor of the US
CLC ‘Self-Starter’ mag and also the Lincoln & Continental club.
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2020 National Luxury
Generator & Distributor, Vince Taliano, editor, Vintage
Chevrolet Club of America, Inc. (VCCA)
Lincoln & Continental Comments, Jeff Shively, editor, Lincoln
& Continental Owners Club
The Self-Starter, Jeff Shively, editor, Cadillac & LaSalle Club,
Inc. (CLC)
Museum & Special Purpose
Finz, Ron Melville, editor, The Cadillac & LaSalle Club of New
Zealand, Inc.
LaCad, Andrew & Rachel Rees, editors, Cadillac & LaSalle
Club of Australia
Regions/Chapters 2020 Full-Size Chapters
Sallee Speaks, John Byrden, editor, LaSalle Appreciation
Society-CLC
2020
Compact Chapters
Hoosier Tailfin, Michael Fellenzer, editor, Indiana Region-
CLC & The Standard of The World, Bill Levy, editor, CLC-
North Texas Region
Honorable Mentions
Caddy Chatter, Tony Albarella, editor, Cadillac Club of North
Jersey & The Enlightener, Dan Cress, editor, Badger Region-
CLCOur Global Family
FROM - AUSTRALIA - Hi Ron. Well done
You keep putting together a well respected magazine
Regards. John Byrden, Editor Sallee Speaks [Thanks John. It’s only
as good as what members send me to include - Ed, Ron]
FROM DUNEDIN, NZ - Rob McCann, our Regional delegate from the
deep south (Otago/ Southland Region) found this immaculate ‘61
Limo parked up in a quiet Dunedin street. Fairly fresh paint, it was a 12
great example Rob tells me. Ed
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FROM Editors Inbox! Find attached a copy of the ‘Federation of
Motor Clubs of NZ’ (of which our club is a member) email. It is
about the forthcoming AGM. Anyone in our club that lives in the
Wellington Region is encouraged to go along. Can I suggest you
touch base with Murray Scott, a regular attendee. EdNORTHLAND
REGIONAL DELEGATES Vacant
>All Enquiries to Pres.
FRIDGE Magnets!
AUCKLAND BAY OF PLENTY
Our Global Family
Phil Shaw
029-412-8953
Contact Steve Gill
07-575-8891
MAY 2nd - GM day out - Clevedon Auck
9th - Steel n’Wheels Festival - Waiuku
phil@shawsjams.co.nz 16th - Athenree Homstead Classic &
Vintage Show - Athenree BoP
WAIKATO
TARANAKI Ian Bradshaw 027-211-8516
23rd - Wellington Horsepower Display and
Brian & Marie Gillett 07-828-5979 Swap Meet - Tretham Racecourse
06-75-66-136 ianbradshaw1957@gmail.com JUN 5th - Palmy North HRC 50th Anni
briree@xtra.co.nz JUL 11th - Rotorua swap Meet
HAWKES BAY
WANGANUI/ MANAWATU
Vacant
>All Enquiries to Pres.
Alan Sargisson 06-843-6838
027-482-4384
fingerbreaker44@gmail.com
OCT - 1st - 3rd, NZ Cadillac Nats,
Ruapaheu, Central North Island! 13
WELLINGTON/WAIRARAPA
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10 Regions across NZ Jason Curry
8 Active 021-0221-5373
curried@hotmail.com
MARLBOROUGH/CANTERBURY/ WEST COAST
For Sale/ Wanted
WANTed - No luck yet in finding my dream Cadillac.
Stephen Brown I think we should open up the field now. Can you
03-32-88-250 place an ad for me? Cadillac Wanted, a good Sunday
stephen.brown@xtra.co.nz driver, 1949 to 1962.
OTAGO/ SOUTHLAND ALSO - Wanted 1960 Cadillac parts, rear bumper,
Rob McCann rear side trim, chrome trim for the fins. Anything
021-1835-334 repairable. Ph 022 625.6370. Ian Currie 333iancurrie@
robmmccann@gmail.com gmail.com FOR SALE - 1985 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz - current
AND - Wanted wiper motor for 1968 Caddy. Can w.o.f. and Rego. Excellent condition. Offers around
Secretary anyone help Gus Carmont? Ph 021-964-840 or email: $25,000.00 Phone Bob on 0278557125. Tauranga
2020/21 CLC NZ Club Officers
Frances McCurdy 027-444-9824 suengus@ol.net location.
President frances.wayne@xtra.co.nz
Ian Lind 021-863-260 Club magazine (FINZ) Editor
ian.lind@outlook.com Ron Melville 07-557-8090
finzmagazine@gmail.com
Vice President
Mike Thompson 021-749-179 Patron - Maurice Hendry
mobilewelder@xtra.co.nz (Founding member)
Any Contact to Ron Melville
Treasurer [Corrections to: finzmagazine@
Grant Davis 06-754-6003 gmail.com]
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