Where is Trekka Number One?

This is Motor Industries first "concept" vehicle built around 1964 by the maintenance department at Otahuhu. It had features including dual handbrakes to lock one or the other rear wheel to improve traction. It had cutaway doors a la Mini Moke.

This was before the name Trekka had been thought up for the vehicle. It was soon superceded by Trekka number 2 which had shed the dual handbrake idea and was built along the lines eventually used for the production vehicle.

The original vehicle has been lost. It was last seen around Taupo in the 1970's. Phil Andrews who first floated the idea of the Trekka had used it around Taupo as a runabout, before parting company with it.