Part social history, part motor industry nostalgia, THE TREKKA DYNASTY follows threads from the start of the 1900’s which wove together to create New Zealand’s only homegrown production motor vehicle.

These threads include the enterprise of English carpenter Arthur Turner and his stepson Noel, the all-powerful grip in which post-war New Zealand Governments held the manufacturing industry, and the myriad of controls which created the most distorted new car market in the western world.

All would converge in the 1960’s to give birth to the Trekka, an awkward jeep-like vehicle with Kiwi clothing and a communist heart. For a time, a new motor vehicle was finally within the grasp of nearly every New Zealander. And from there the world.

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1. Art and Academia

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