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Trekka turns 60!
On December 2 1966, the first production Trekka’s burst through a white curtain and emerged from Motor Industries’ Otahuhu assembly plant.
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The empty halls of New Zealand's car assembly industry
The Trekka was built in a busy car assembly plant in Otahuhu Auckland. Amazingly, decades after the plant closed its interior remained intact. Todd Niall went there with former chief executive Rob Elliott and you can join his reminiscence in this video.
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A blast from the past: the Trekka’s new life on TV and music videos
Six decades after its launch, the Trekka is working its way into contemporary culture, featuring in a television commercial, and an animated Kiwi music video.
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Discovering the Czech mate of Kiwiana classic Trekka
Todd Niall visited the Czech Republic to see first hand, the new European life of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Trekka. Read the article and come for a video ride.
Make your own Trekka!
Yes the Trekka is now available as a 1:43 resin kitset.
The Trekka in Lego
It had to happen, the Trekka in Lego!
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Škoda Trekka (1966–1972): Tailor-made for customers in faraway markets
Trekka’s mechanicals were supplied by Czech carmaker Skoda, from its model the Skoda Octavia Combi. Skoda since the 2010s has embraced this chapter of its global history and has a section on its website devoted to the Trekka.
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Trekka goes to Venice
A key event in the re-emergence of the Trekka into the 21 century, was it being the centrepiece of artist Michael Stevenson’s work “This is the Trekka” which represented Aotearoa New Zealand at the 2003 Venice Art Biennale. Todd Niall attended the setting up of the exhibit and produced a radio documentary for RNZ.
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Global Radar checks out the Trekka
For those who were unaware of this part of Kiwi motoring history, television personality and comedian Te Radar devoted a segment to it in his 2011 series Global Radar. (Starts at 4’10” in the clip).
