NZ Hot Rod – September 2019

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GRANT Eckers is an almond farmer in Waterford,

California who owns a large collection of

‘50s and ‘ 6 0s cars plus a handful of hot rods.

We stumbled on this collection by chance.

We were going for a walk down the road and

estorer who owned a Model A sedan

y and a 1956 Chevy pickup. We got

talking about cars, and he asked if we’d seen

the collection of cars located just around

the corner? We thought it’d be a heap of old

wrecks, so we didn’t go around to visit.

Sometime later, when Kevin and Sandra Lamb

were visiting from Nelson, we ventured around

to check out this collection. What a surprise

we got! Yes, there were a lot of old cars but

not wrecks at all, but there was a parts section

which would interest any hot rodder. Grant has

had Guillain-Barre syndrome (where the body’s

immune system attacks your nerves), so it was

onto the golf cart for him as he led us down to

the shed, what eye candy greeted us! He has

about 50-60 cars in the shed as well as a few about50-60carsintheshedaswelabout50-60carsintheshedaswell

other old trinkets such as bikes, A Chris Craft

boat, signs and other memorabilia. Grant has

a few hot rods such as a ’33 Ford 5W coupe,

Model A pickup with a Cook OHV conversion

under the hood plus a ’46 Ford convertible. His

An uber-cool ’51 Studebaker Starlight coupe.

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California Vintage Tin

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Spook finds a hoard in an Almond Farm