Glad you are doing this tour of NZ. It saves me being made to go over to visit my sister that lives there, who I don't get on with.

I'm not here to just walk around the car park and then proceeds to do much walking around car parks :). Classic HubNut !

When you said a clock museum I thought it was a wind up.....

Wow ...that clock museum is mesmerising , I could sit there all day with my eyes closed and just take in the different sounds , I'm really enjoying your adventure. Take care and have a good time.

Those clocks! As long as you’re prepared to leave your taste and ‘cool’ at the door, that looks like one very absorbing hobby.

That clock whipping around those poles was amazing, If I had one I'd watch it for hours.

The eclectic tastelesness of that clock 'museum' was painfully joyful to watch! 🤣 The nice music was the exception.😯

Nice range of cars that you see nowhere else in the world. The views are breathtaking. As the clock ticks at home, it does not tick anywhere.

that clock museum nearly lulled me to sleep. very nice to see hand wound machinery working so nicely. thank Ian.

That clock museum is fantastic Ian and the people looking after it showed just how pleased they were to be showing the beautiful clocks. The places you are going to on your travels must be pleasing you too Ian your so lucky buddy keep safe mate Rob

Very Pink Floyd in the clock museum. Loving your NZ adventures!

Loving this tour so far. A Kluger and a Clock museum. Classic Hubnut. Looking forward to these seeing me through the winter months.

brilliant , like going on holiday without the stress, and the clock museum WOW.. keep it up Ian, I'm loving it

What a stunning house that Boris lives in! Awesome video and thanks for showing us around

“We are delighted to inform you that your order has now been processed and dispatched by our team of one woman and a cat. To be honest, the cat's not a great deal of help. UK delivery should be within a couple of days. Worldwide, well a little longer.” ... I love this channel it’s my new favouritist thing. Expecting Foxy t-shirt in time for Chrimbo.

That was a lovely watch, thanks. Your Boris is a big improvement on the one you left us stuck with

Stunning clock footage, variously. And noting the timely demise of any residual jet-lag. Safe travels.

Super stuff Hubnut, A great tourist advert for New Zealand. You deserve an extra holiday there courtesy of the New Zealand Tourist Board! I hope they are watching! Safe travels.

Like the start of the first "Back To The Future" Film. Love it.

I very nearly applied for a mech eng. job in Whangarei in the late 1970's when I completed my UK apprenticeship. Very nice to see where I could possibly now have been residing. I'm getting odd emotions as I watch this.

The skill of old clockmakers is awesome Ian. I've never been any good at freehand stuff, so truly admire those that are. Many thanks for showing us around.

Beautiful views! I’m really enjoying this trip!

The variety of JDM cars that we don't see in the UK has always amazed me. The clock museum is amazing. Nice to see the BX marking its territory. Most of my cars have a tendency to do that. The current one included. Would love to visit NZ at some point. Hope you are enjoying NZ and your adventures as much as I am watching your videos.

What a brilliant place. The number of variations of JDM models in different markets is incredible. I have the same issues as you. Here in Mauritius there are many models I've never seen before. A whole new learning experience. Thanks Ian

What a lovely town.

The clock museum reminded me of the opening to Back to the future. Fully expected a "Great Scott" from Doctor Emmett Brown!

Another wonderful installment from NZ. And what a lot of timepeices! Just imagine setting that lot when the hour goes back/forward!

Hub nut goes full David Attenborough 😂👍Looks amazing!! Big sky's and clouds always remind me of Wales. The diversity of cars is amazing. Usually after your vids I'm on eBay looking at 2cv's but now it's flights to New Zealand. 🙂

Ah - the Toyota Will Vi - possibly the colest design ever to come from Toyota. What a beauty!

The clock museum reminded me of the clock maker that use to do repairs for my father back in the UK when I was a teen. You will love the Bay of Island's

Lovely Jubbly, another fascinating look at the other side of the world Mr HubNut, many thanks.

Brilliant Ian, loving your travels.

Classic HubNut. Totally brilliant. Please keep it up.

Looks a lovely place. Clock museum would be a must see. Loving these videos already!

I applied to Whangarei port authority when I was at university for a year's internship without ever visiting it! Thanks for doing that for me, although I might make a trip up there when I get into NZ soon! Another wonderful video Ian and thanks for introducing Boris. Seen many of the funky Japanese cars like the Will when I was in Japan last year, a place I highly recommend you visit, it's wonderful!

My mother was born in Whangarei. Good to see Hubnut visiting NZ, as I now live in Australia and can recognize some of the sights from when I lived there until 1999. Plus I am a car nut and to be honest, I don't recognise most of the oddball JDM cars you are showing here. NZ has imported a wide variety of used cars from Japan since I left, which doesn't happen in Australia so much, although it is increasing since the government here allowed the local car industry to be shut down, and I believe the import rules have also been relaxed to compensate, just as happened in NZ when I was there.

These videos are on another level Ian 👍 Being able to see a museum like that which many of us will probably never see is fantastic.

Good to see you having such a fine time Hubnut. I know that politics is not a place you venture online, but if the opportunity arises, take an interest in New Zealand's Prime Minister. Many of us in Australia are very jealous that the Kiwis had such good sense as to elect such a human Prime Minister.

I caught a glimpse of a Noddy clock in the clock museum, similar to the one I had in my bedroom as a child. This was years before Noddy became a TV star - at the time Noddy-themed merchandise was quite rare. Interesting to see the clocks made it as far as New Zealand.

Thanks for another terrific video, you are a car spotting supremo..clock museum was fascinating.

Love the clock museum. Good timing (pardon the pun) as a bought an antique mantle clock last week.

Great video Ian, really enjoyed the clock museum visit👍🏻

Superb array of JDM vehicles , but above all , everywhere you have shown us so far looks absolutely gorgeous ! The clock museum was a bonus !

Your excursion of New Zealand is similar to my excursions of other countries. Spend half the time identifying vehicles. The other half everything else including scenery, culture, and history. 😁 Keep up the good work and enjoy your time.

NZ is amazing. There are greater things to come yet!

Can't believe I'm sat here in Scotland at ten to one in the morning looking at lots of clocks.

Nice to see your journey Ian. For sure you will not see only beautiful landscapes but indeed also many cars that you think "what's that now again"... anyway, enjoy there and till tomorrow 😊

What a beautiful country. Never really was familiar with NZ, contrary to South Africa and the UK. Quite a revelation.

The rain makes you feel athome. Not raining here in Ireland... yet. Been following your travels as always. Nice to know the hubnut tribe are helping out. On wards and upwards.

The clock museum, WOW! I could have that room as a bedroom, wonderful sound :)

Love the clock museum, it must be a constant job keeping them all wound up.

Lovely scenery around there! Nice to see some sunshine and palms; just having our first snow tonight in N. Ohio...

Some very interesting places and love the clock museum keep up the good reports

Loved the clock museum

Boris seems like a very fine George stand-in. 5:13 Starlet Princess. Sounds like your kind of car. 7:59 Phone? The clock museum was so peaceful!

Loving these updates Ian - it’s a big trip to commit to on your own and having been on a few road trips by myself I know it’s not always easy but keep it up - very much enjoying viewing!

The Whangarei falls are lovely and my imagination went to Rivendell when I was there. Those niche Toyotas never fail to surprise. The Bay of Islands Vintage Railway is fun if you get the chance. Cheers.

That was a nice video a breath of fresh air thank you

The car parks are fascinating to you, but the clocks are more fascinating to me. We have one which is identical to one of those antique clocks. It's French, and that style dates from about 1920 to 1925. I could spend all day in there, and still go back the next day! That Polyphone needed some TLC though, or maybe only the disk was worn out. Many of the notes on it were not playing. Looked like a fine repertoire of music with it though! Thanks for that pinnacle amongst the many highlights of New Zealand. Wish we could visit; it has been a 50-year desire for me, but is unlikely to happen now. Thanks again, Ian.

The clock museum was strangely fabulous 😀

classic hubnut,only MILES AWAY,,,, KEEP IT UP MATE,,,,, S

Looks really nice there :-) and love the clock museum.

As soon as those clocks started I thought Back to the future had come on

Beautiful skyscape Ian almost like the volcano you mentioned had set the heavens alight. Waterfall backdrop was nice too. That Toyota suv/people carrier you spotted in the car park looks virtually identical to the Toyota Qualis i have seen in India. The old clocks remind me of 19th century automatons which were also brilliantly engineered pieces of clockwork really. Brilliant video as usual. Thanks Ian.

At 12:00: Lots of these clocks seem to be made in Black Forest, Germany, which is a traditional clock building area.

Another epic video Ian,the views in Whangarei are amazing,I like how the fish hook bridge is,the cars there are totally different from the UK,that clock shop was fascinating to see,too many to service 😂😂😂.

You are definitely spoiling us ian, with your wonderful updates down under. New Zealand is certainly a very glorious place to be, I think come Jan 2020 you won't want to come back to a cold frosty welsh wales but I expect elly and the fleet will require some tlc. Regards from a wet wales ✌peace

11:20 that is fabulous! 14:03 wonderful

I would not want the job of winding all those clocks up... Cracking adventure Ian...

Great stuff Ian! Glad George has put the word out for you to not be lonely! I saw a Toyota Will a few years ago in Tesco's car-park in Sudbury! Same colour as the one you spotted! I thought it was a kit-car of some sort, but a lovely lady at the DVLA helped me out! :-)

Supremely jealous of your adventures all the more now! 😩 more power to you, Ian!

Quite splendid, the increased brightness you mentioned on the beach has been quite noticeable in the vids I didn't realise that was a thing. Glad you are enjoying the trip as it was quite the journey. As regards moving metal I was rather taken with the Toyota WiLL, Wikipedia tells me that it was only made between 2000 and 2001 due to poor sales. What a shame something different failed to sell I'd have been tempted. Keep your eyes peeled for the Kakapo while you are there, the alas rare flightless parrot.

The clock museum, that sounded just like the beginning of Back to the Future, all that ticking, such a nice sound... :)

Brilliant Ian you enjoy your self lovely shell that was great cushty

Amazing, and thank you for sharing your video Sir 👍 Tam.

Nice , keep up with the amazing videos 😁👍

Fantastic!!!

Another great video. I missed the peninsula when I toured North Island in 1981. Looks like I missed something really nice, but as you said, we forget how big NZ is. You can't see everything. Please don't worry about not spending too much time in car parks, though. The stuff there is so unusual, I'd love a few carpark only episodes! :^) Looks like you could do with a field guide to all the far eastern vehicular oddness you are coming across, but you seem to recognise many of them, presumably from your journalistic work. All very different from when I went, though - lots of old British stuff everywhere then, as that scrapheap you visited south of Auckland testified. Wonder if there are any more scrappies filled with rusting Britcars? Or even car museums?

"A Guardian of Time" - Ian in the museum :D (Terry Pratchett ftw)

Great visuals of a beautiful place, as is your speciality the cars are so fascinating, NZ. Having its own unique history. Enjoyed learning and viewing the interesting cars driven there. One of your best videos. A quality production and quite enjoyable. Amazing time keepers. What a good choice to take a trip to NZ. Well done Ian. Brilliant ! A video that gave a smile to my day. Thanks 🙂 Rich&2 Cats LA.CALIF USA

I remember visiting the clock collection in 1959 and our family was shown around by Mr Clapham himself at his home in Tikipunga. His commentary was fascinating! When he died there was uncertainty as to whether the collection would be auctioned off or retained by the city. The city obviously acquired it and moved it to a central location with good access and display facilities.

Don't confuse what Ian called a Hubnutter, who owned the house he stayed in, with a nutter , which is something completely different. We Hubnutters are nuts, but in a very nice way. Keep coming with the Ford's,Holden's and obscure Japanese classic stuff. Keep it coming , Hubnutter. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Oddly enough, that Toyota Will is the second one to poison my eyes in as many weeks! There is one for sale at a garage near my home in the Midlands (UK). My word it’s fugly!! But having never seen or heard of them before, it was certainly striking! To see another is just too much for my senses!!😂 Great video and some great sights!👍 Not sure I could spend too long with all them clocks.....! Tick tick clocks like those freak me out a little bit😳

Thanks for showing us Boris the cat Johnson

I think i can spend lots of time walking around parking lots with that kind of cars, just so different stuff there. Last week i saw similar Toyota Will VI in here Finland, it looked so strange, but also so nice, i like to have one 😄 Nice videos, NZ looks that kind of place i like to visit someday.

Hehe, at 9:31 the german Blackforest Cuckoo clocks :-) Pieces of mechanical art sometimes. I always wondered if they had been produced anywhwere else in the world since they are so much loved souvenirs from Germany for 150 years although I never understood why.... My grandparents had one and one day my grandpa removed the cuckoo for permanent nerving reasons risking some serious discussions with my grandma :-) Otherwise this museum is my place to be, I´m a clock lover. Automatic wrist watches and the big clocks for use in the house. Cheers from Germany and good times in NZ, Bernd

Loved all the clocks ... :) Reminds me of the Wellgate Clock in Dundee. You can find videos of how it is nowadays, half broken and tuneless, on the KZfaq. I remember it, 30 years ago, when it actually worked and was quite nice to listen to :)

Can you imagine working in that clock museum? Jesus I'd go mad after about an hour! Fancy having to wind them all up. Not even for a gold clock, as my Grandma would've said.

Awesome!

You've been caught speeding in that museum Ian. Local plod said you were clocked at over a hundred 🕰😉

A clock museum , good times

The clock museum reminds me of George's living room in the Rod Taylor version of The Time Machine.

What a view what a video.

9:31 Lots of clocks there. I bet quite a few of them are on tick :)

With a name like Reyburn or Raeburn house it more than likely has a Scottish link id guess, loving the videos of the trip Ian :)

A world tour of car parks - what else could one need ? Apart from the odd cat in the video of course !

Now that’s a variety of time pieces. Omg.

NZ is just such a beautiful country, been there twice. Been in the city of Whangarei itself and from there to the Bay of Islands (Paihia), Whangaroa, into Northland to the 90 mile beach, giant sand dunes and to cape Reinga. But I've been to many other placed, on the North and South Island. On the second trip we had rented one of these bus campers, it was a Toyota Coaster bus, very similar to the Nissan Civilian in your video, I think it was from a company called Mighway which mediates for private people having their camper for rent. You can drive it with a normal car license if you keep it's laden weight below 4,5 tons.

Where else could a walk around a car park be so absorbing? Only here on HubNut!!

Glad the bus NZMCA member was so friendly with the shell gift!