A party of Gisborne motorists had an unusual experience recently. The car broke a back axle in the Waioeka Gorge, arid, when the breakdown van arrived it was found that the only way to tow the car was to hoist' the rear end up and to tow it backwards on the front wheels, which were locked to keep them in position. The party also had a trailer, and this had to be taken from the rear of the car and hitched to the front. As many of the party as possible were accommodated in the cab of the breakdown van, but the remainder had the unusual experience of sitting in their car while it was towed backwards for 25 miles through the Waioeka Gorge. The sight of the car being towed backwards with the trailer was an unusual one for Opotiki people, who stopped to look at the strange procession as it passed through the main street.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 8
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