GAMES CARS SOLD

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33454, 8 February 1974, Page 1

GAMES CARS SOLD

The picture shows some of the cars awaiting delivery, outside Blackwell Motors,; Ltd, yesterday. Many of the courtesy cars had been sold even before the Games ended; and the! cars made available by I I General Motors and the com-j !pany’s North Island dealers,! .which were shipped north; 'yesterday, had also nearly all, been sold in advance. Most of the cars had \ covered about 1.900 kilo-] metres —less than 1200 miles j —and they were sold for $5217 each. Cars of the same specification, with power: I steering, automatic transmission, radios, special wheels iand extra instruments, would cost closer to $6OOO each new.

All the Games cars sold [still had the red and blue coachlines along their sides, and some still had the peeloff Games signs on their front doors. ! The sales manager of [Blackwell Motors, Ltd (Mr M. J. Ellis) said yesterday [that about a quarter of the [lBl Games cars had gone to [Christchurch dealers, and ithey had been in strong deImand. There had also been (requests from customers for [cars to the same specifications. Increases in Holden prices from February 1 helped make the cars a good buy: Holden models generally have gone [up by $287 (Belmont model) to $5OB (Statesman). As well as the courtesy: ‘cars, several Holdens of more (basic specification have been on loan to the Games com-) mittee for some time—in some cases, for about a year. (Some of these cars are still i being used by the committee.