Petrol, steam and a hearty push got engines roaring in Dunedin on Saturday.
Hundreds of spectators gathered in the Octagon to get a closer look at the veteran cars and a motorbike on display at the 71st Brighton Rally.
A 1910 Triumph Roadster made its 17th Brighton Rally appearance on Saturday.
"It just chugs along the road."
It is fixed drive and does not have a clutch or a gearbox.
To get it started you had to pedal, give it a good push and get the decompression lever out.
Mr Roxburgh would only ride it for about 25km-30km at a time.
Otago Vintage Car Club members Glen McConachie and Amy Macklan, of Dunedin, drove Robert Herron’s 1915 Ford Model T during the rally.
Ms Macklan said a Southland farmer had won the car in a raffle but because he did not know how to drive it, it was parked in a paddock for a long time.
It was then found by a vintage car club member who purchased it and brought it up to speed.
Driving the Model T was a lot different from driving a modern car.
It had three pedals, but one of them was for reversing, and there was no gearbox.
It could get up to a "cruisy" top speed of about 60kmh, Ms Macklan said.
Mr McConachie said that most nights he was in his shed tinkering away, working on either his own car or someone else’s.
He grew up working on his father’s old cars.
