Photo: Ashburton CourierAshburton’s iconic Wheels Week Plus, where anything and everything to do with wheels is showcased, will roll into action for a 16-day programme from Saturday. Sponsored by Greg Donaldson Contracting, the annual event opens with the popular Ashburton Vintage Car Club Swap Meet on Saturday and finishes on May 16 with a host of events, although there is no street parade this year. Among the events are Classic Boats on Lake Hood and a Coffee and Vintage Car Club’s classic vehicle show of vintage, classic, modern cars motorcycles and trucks in the Goodyear/Robert Harris car park on West Street (opposite the Phat Duck). The Ashburton Family Go Kart Club is also holding a day of paddock racing and the River Trail Mountain Bike Ride session for people to explore the 10km of purpose-built mountain bike track developed and maintained by Mountain Bike Ashburton club members. One of the features this year at the annual AutoSparks Street Sprints, run by Ashburton Car Club members, is renaming of the 2021 event as a tribute to the late-Ashburton Car Club president Shayne Adams.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 28, 2021 23:26 UTC