Studebakers on show

Coast – a Studebaker car museum. This outstanding attraction is on Riverbank around 30 Studebakers, including two cars which have won Best in Show awards. Most of the Studebakers are from the 1950s and 1960s.

There are some very interesting vehicles in the collection including military vehicles, also manufactured by Studebaker.

One of the vehicles is a cart, and a particularly interesting feature of the cart is that it has a very innovative suspension system.

John Everiss and his two sons Brent and Shaun run the museum, and people can make appointments by ringing John on 027 442 7669.

The Everiss family opens the museum by appointment for group bookings of 10 or more people and the cost is $10 a person. Catering is available.

As well as running the museum, John, Brent and Shaun run Everiss Contractors – a well known Wellington earthmoving business..

In fact it was this involvement with trucks, into collecting Studebakers, as Studebaker manufactured farm vehicles as well as wagons and automobiles.

Head to Arthur’s Pass with Steam Inc

Travel with Steam Incorporated on a rare South Island rail experience! Join us on this special diesel hauled excursion to Arthur’s Pass and listen to the EMD V12 sing through the Mountains!

Ride the rails in heritage carriages with open end balconies and hauled by an immacuately from Christchurch to Arthur’s Pass and return. The train will be hauled by our Australianbuilt Da class heritage diesel locomotive and most being over 100 years old. Join the train at Christchurch’s Addington station or Rolleston 23 April 9am. After traversing the Canterbury plains the climb out as we snake our way up and through the Southern Alps. The journey truly lives up to its reputation, as one of the best railway journeys in the world.

The train returns to Christchurch at 6pm.