2. Southward Car MuseumParaparaumu The Southward Car Museum is an automobile museum housing a collection of over 400 vehicles, as well as three aircraft, located on Otaihanga Road, Otaihanga, just north of Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. The museum is run by a charitable trust, incorporated in 1972. It is approximately an hour's drive from downtown Wellington and is situated between the North Island Main Trunk railway to the west and State Highway 1 to the east. The museum's collection includes Marlene Dietrich's Cadillac cabriolet, a 1915 Stutz Indianapolis race car, gull-winged Mercedes-Benz, a 1950 Cadillac gangster special that belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen, and an 1895 Benz Velo, imported to New Zealand in 1900. A DeLorean DMC-12, the car best known from the Back to the Future movie s... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
3. Manawatu Gorge TrackAshhurst The Manawatu Gorge runs for 6-9 km between the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges in the south part of the North Island of New Zealand, linking the Manawatu and Hawke's Bay regions. It lies to the northeast of Palmerston North. Its western end is near the small town of Ashhurst and its eastern end is close to the town of Woodville. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.