Bourne auction attracts avalanche of items.
Organisers of the Possum Bourne Charity Auction and Dinner have been inundated with a wide varie🌳ty of items from the motorsport world and beyond.
The function to be held on Monday 12 April has been donated items by the Ford, Peugeot, Citroen and Subaru World Rally teams, including overalls, gloves, and bonnet plates, many of them signed by rallying's superstars, Petter Solberg, Marko Ma𒁃rtin, Carlos Sainz and Tommi Makinen.
Organisers of the Possum Bourne Charity Auction and Dinner have been inundated with a wide variet๊y of items from the motorsport world and beyond.
The function to be held on Monday 12 April has been donated items by the Ford, Peugeot, Citroen and Subaru World Rally teams, including overalls, gloves, and bonnet plates, many of them signed by rallying's superstars, Petter Solberg, Marko Martin, Carlos Sainz a𒐪nd Tommi Makinen.
The Australian V8 Supercar circus has also come to the party with items from Greg Mur💃phy, Marcos Ambrose and Russell Ingall. The Stone Brothers team who started their careers in the Tuakau - Onewhero area have put up some hot laps at the Pukekohe Supercar race meeting.
There is a considerable amount of Possum memorabilia as well, including overal✤ls, helmet and the bumper from hi🍃s 1999 Rally of NZ Impreza WRC car which led the event on the first day.
Two trips are up for auction. One to🧔 the Rally of Australia and the other to the Surfers Paradise Indy Car Grand Prix.
Other sports have also chimed in with signed gear from the 2003 Warriors, the All Blacks, the Auckland rugby team, the꧟ Black Caps and the World Champion Silver Ferns and Black Socks.
And the international sports community has also come forw🐷ard with items from Tiger Woods, Mario Andretti and Ralf🙈 Schumacher.
The organisers have received𝄹 so many co꧅ntributions that an 'on-line' auction is also being held.
"The response when we started asking for items for the auction was phenomenal," said Andrew Miller, the auction organiser. "We received so many items that an 'on line' auction was the only way to make🐭 theꦺ most of all the contributions."
There are numerous 'use🤡d' parts from Petter Solberg's cars from this year's Rally of Monte Carlo and🙈 Sweden and signed Playstation WRC games.
More Australian Supercar V8 stuff, including signed posters, cars parts and overall🉐s and numerous motꦓorsport books are also available.
The 'on-line' auction is at
All proceeds from the dinner and auction will go to the Possum Bourne Fami🐼ly Education Trust.
