Breakfast, the day after the well lubricated awards knees-up in Christchurch. Rita and Mario: "So what now for the MG you bought on day four?" Peter and Penny: "Well we've got until tea time to sort something out before we have to head off to the airport". It was soon done. Rosie had a new home with a discerning dealer across town who'd seen through the layers of road dust and some gravel rash to recognise a thoroughbred classic. And let's face it, it was a buyer's market. Meanwhile, Mario had run Daphne round to the shipping warehouse to hand her over to the tender hands of CARS Europe for her journey home. And so to lunch, and a chance to reflect on four spectacular weeks. The roads have been awesome, the scenery epic, but it's been the people - competitors and ERA event team, and Kiwis who so generously and spontaneously helped us out along the way - who distilled the true spirit of the rally. Haere ra, New Zealand.
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