HISTORIC NEWTOWN

A classic photo from 1979 looking south in Newtown, Wellington, to the original brick hospital, and a Holden Kingswood taking off at the lights, with 3.3L of pure grunt raising the bonnet up as it surges forward - I used to love driving those old tanks!

And another old photo of the same intersection - this one taken in 1901 - that angle shaped building has been there since the dawn of time.

Another Kingswood in upper Cuba St around 1988

And a stylish Kingswood ute very like one I drove for a while a long time ago.

 

A BUNCH OF OLD CARS

 I have posted another image gallery - this one is some of my car photos!

See it here: CAR GALLERY

Long ago, back before all cars turned into gay lawnmowers, even on the streets of Wellington, there were still some stylish old tanks to be seen. Since around 10 years ago these have become as rare as hens teeth, but here are some photos I took between about 2000 & 2015.

Except for the top photo, which I didn't take (that's teenage me posing in it). That is my old 1967 AP7 Valiant which had the engine upgraded from a 3.7L slant six, to a 4.3L HEMI, with a huge twin barrel carb, six into one extractors, and a race cam. But it still only had the original drum brakes, so it was a real beast.

The gallery includes a bunch of old relics that caught my eye:

(Click on any of them to view in 1000 x 750 px size)

 

 

 

A RIDE ON THE TRAIN

Yesterday I caught a train from Wellington up to Waikanae, which is about 60k north of Wellington (the distance varies from 50k to 78k depending which website you consult!). Some of the route follows the coast and has some great views, so I took some photos. The weather was a bit patchy yesterday but there were some sunny parts.

Trains tend to have dirty windows which mess up photos, so before the train left I cleaned a suitable patch of window on the outside with my handkerchief!

Usually I stick to taking photos with a camera, but yesterday I was sussing out the internal camera on a 12" Samsung tablet. The big tablet was a bit ungainly to use as a camera, but after a quick edit in Snapseed, I liked each of these photos.

Tawa:

Porirua:

 

Pukerua Bay:

 

The West coast:
 

 

Takapu Road:

Pukerua Bay again but edited in OneLab:

PHOTOGRAPHING THE NWO

 This is a photo I took in Manners Street, Wellington, that I think captures many aspects of the NWO - with chemtrails in the sky, a masktard & a phonetard, a gay pride building and an old-school bank, yep, it's got it all really.

AFTER A MONTH OFF

Having a month off, whether it's from social media, or blogging, or both, always seems to help me to get things in perspective. It's not like I've come up with any revolutionary insights, in fact I just came to the exact same conclusions that I usually do, but sometimes a reminder is helpful.

THINK SMALL

Back when I was posting on my old www.frot.co.nz WordPress blog, and getting up to 2000 hits a day at it's peak in 2017-2018, it seemed worthwhile to do copy and paste posts, sharing other people's content that I really thought deserved to be viewed far and wide.

But these days with this www.sift.co.nz blog only getting about 300 hits a day, any contribution I might make to the dispersal of good content is a bit of a drop in the ocean. So this blog is primarily just about getting my thoughts in order and keeping my hand in. 

 

If my primary audience is not 2000 rabid conspiracy freaks, but only little old me and a bunch of AI bots, there is not much point behaving like some kind of arbiter of good taste and dispenser of "truth". Rather, as I keep trying to remind myself, I might as well just post whatever I feel like and have a good time.

 IT'S TOO LATE TO WORRY NOW

At the start of the Covidhoax back in early 2020, I was going hard out trying to tell everyone it was all bullshit. It was, but we live in a different world now, in some ways more aware, but in other ways even more fake than ever. I'm tempted to replace outing the Covidhoax with exposing the Climatehoax for example, but I think these globalist psyops all sort of have to play out now, because the current systems are collapsing, for better or for worse.

If there was one thing I have learned over the past five years it's that normies are clueless retards, and they will believe whatever bullshit they are told by the deep state controlled media, rather than research any contrarian opinions. So if I still keep posting that sort of stuff myself, it's really more about getting things off my chest, than because I genuinely believe this vast train wreck can be prevented now.

For better or for worse, the shit has already hit the fan, and I don't really think that can be reversed now. The final outcome may not be what the globalists think it will be, but their evil plan is already in motion.

LIGHTEN UP

If worrying is futile, fear never helps anything, and mind programmed normies are incapable of learning, we are probably better off to have a few LOLS...

THE SAD DEMISE OF MOTORCYCLES

 

HAVE MOTORBIKES BECOME EXTINCT – LIKE FAX MACHINES?

There is a lot of talk about the decline of the motorcycle industry at the moment. But does anyone even still ride motorbikes, or are they just an old timers fantasy, like knights in amour or horses and carts?

As a teenager I was obsessed with motorbikes, and as well as using them to get around I used to race motor-cross too. I thought motorbikes were awesome.

But the New Zealand government decided that like marijuana, and cures for cancer, motorbikes needed to be outlawed out of existence.

They did it by making it so expensive to register a motorbike that nobody would be left who could afford to do it.

Cars are fairly economical in NZ, because we are a right hand drive country (like England and Australia), but we have no car industry that government needs to protect (unlike England and Australia), so we get all the second hand cars from right hand drive Japan shipped over here and sold nice and cheap.

Back in the old days, it used to be about the same cost for the annual registration on both motorbikes and cars. But in more recent years, motorbikes have gone up. A LOT! Now the annual registration for motorbikes is $538 (so motorcyclists mostly just gave up and bought cars).

Yes, in NZ it costs nearly as much to register a motorbike each year as it does to buy a cheap Japanese car.

Like an intrepid African lion hunter, I went exploring the streets in search of retro two wheeled iron horses – do any still exist?

A few still do, but we are not talking regular A to B transport here – anyone paying $538 a year for a number plate wants two wheeled exotica!

Here are 10 styling motorbikes that got tangled up with my camera: