TISEMENT PROOF SHEET
onal News 14
Wednesday December 12, 2018
Advertising Feature
KARORI AUTO SERVICES OPEN BRAND
He ‘lives behind the shop,” but from this week, proprietor of Karori Auto Services Craig Fair has a slightly longer commute to work. The business, where he began his automotive apprenticeship in 1980 (and has owned for 34 years) has moved just two doors down to brand new purpose-built premises at 333 Karori Road. This Saturday’s ‘Open Day’ will start with a short ceremony at 10am to open the new premises, after which the workshop and customer area will be open for public inspection for three hours until one o’clock. To celebrate the opening, there will be several classic vehicles on display, including a Ford Mustang, Morris Eight Sports, E-Type Jaguar, Triumph GT-6, Ford Galaxie and GT-40 replica race car. Craig has also asked the Karori Lions to be on site to run a sausage sizzle for a gold coin donation to support the new Karori Community Centre. The new 350 square metre vehicle facility comprises four working bays with hoists in each, with mezzanine floor and parts storage plus offices and customer waiting area. Now in his 39th year at Karori Auto Services, Craig says he has had the move to larger premises ‘on
his radar’ for at least 25 years. In 2010 he moved a house off the new workshop site and he began evaluating other suburban repair facilities for what would be practical for his site and appropriate for the types of customers and vehicles he and his team cater for. Main contractors are Maycroft Construction, who specialise in this size and scale of building project. Craig has been impressed at how the Maycroft team have worked alongside himself and architects McKenzie Higham, taking some basic concepts and an inevitable ‘wish list’ and turning it into the impressive workshop facility that opens this weekend. “I must give a huge thank you to the guys from Maycroft, who along with their many suppliers and sub-contractors have battled the elements at times through the winter months to get these premises completed and open”, Craig says.
The team at Karori Auto Services (L to R) Auto Technician Jesse Singh, Proprietor Craig A. Fair, Auto Technician Chris Casey and Office Manager Pat Lynch The new building is of concrete block construction with extensive seismic strengthening, comprehensive ceiling soundproofing, good use of natural lighting, and off-street parking. The design of the building was done to be sympathetic with the mostly residential nature of the area and has all native planting in the landscaping around the property’s perimeter. Asked about having a car repair workshop in a residential area, he says there will be no more
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AT A GLANCE
This new workshop...
noise than at any stage since Mr J R Ashford built the original workshop in front of his house nearly 90 years ago. “Probably less noise now and certainly less disruption with the extra space and off-street parking” he says. In his apprenticeship days Craig worked on mainly English and Australian makes – Vauxhalls, Austins and Morris’, Fords, Triumphs, Humbers, Hillmans and Holdens– almost all with manual transmissions and
• features extensive seismic strengthening • has extra roof sound proofing • uses maximum natural light • uses concrete block construction to mitigate noise • has been designed to fit in with the neighbourhood Research and text by Rob Webb audiomemories.co.nz
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