{"id":469082,"date":"2026-03-11T05:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:55:08","slug":"why-i-brought-a-classic-1970s-car-from-new-zealand-to-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469082\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I brought a classic 1970s car from New Zealand to Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hans splits his time between New Zealand and the Netherlands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He sent the Austin by container to Rotterdam, and then spent some time fixing it up in his workshop before loading it on to his equally vintage 1970 Opel Blitz truck which has been converted into a car transporter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had never been to the north of Scotland and I wanted to see it,&#8221; said Hans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once I got off the ferry in Newcastle I thought it was just a day&#8217;s drive to the Orkney Islands but that was a big mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In fact, it took two days for Hans to travel about 400 miles from Newcastle to the ferry port at Scrabster in the far north of Scotland which connects Orkney to the mainland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hans splits his time between New Zealand and the Netherlands. He sent the Austin by container to Rotterdam,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-469082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}