Scott Brearley 2018
Along with his dad, Scott Brearley was one of the thousands who saw the Heron at the 1983 Motor Expo. Scott has lived and breathed cars since high school, and at that first glance, he knew that the Heron was something special. Indeed, in 1992, after seeing a Heron for sale in a car yard, and despite the car having already been sold, Scott managed to convince the salesman to let him take the Heron for a test drive. Over the years, his interest in the marque remained undiminished.

Finally, after much searching, he was able to purchase his own Heron – a car that had been lovingly restored and drepainted its current blue, by its previous owner, Anthony Williams. Scott took possession of the car and with less than 18,000 original kilometres on the clock. Scott found that his first task was to rebuild the engine, gearbox and radiator to ensure its drivability. The Heron, like all cars parked up in a garage for a long time, is not immune to deterioration when not regularly driven.

Scott had been driving his dream car around Auckland for about a year when he had the opportunity to personally meet its creator, Ross Baker. As mentioned earlier, MOTAT had purchased a Heron MJ1 that it wanted to display along with the moulds. Walter Wing had contacted Ross, who, with his wife Bev, had retired and moved to Australia to be with their family. Together, Ross and Walter were going to help MOTAT by donating photos, documents and drawings of the car to be stored there for future automotive historians. Scott heard about this and arranged with Walter Wing to collect Ross from his hotel and take him to MOTAT in his Heron – how cool is that? The expression on Ross’s face, when he was picked up in a fully restored, 30-year-old Heron, made it all worthwhile. Scott says he felt like he was transporting the Enzo Ferrari of New Zealand.

From Anothny Williams 2004
In February 2004 a good friend of mine (Andre) was at the Auckland Car show, and noticed a Yellow Heron in the car park. Andre and I have been interested in Herons for many years, and he knew I was still wanting to buy one at some stage. This Yellow Heron (TOLOW) had a For Sale sign on it so Andre took the rego down and promptly rang me the same day. From here, I did a Reg check on the car and got John Evan's details, I rang John and had a good talk to him about his Heron, what he had done to it and what sort of figure he was looking at.I realized that John's car was a bit out of my price range; John said that he knew where there was a Heron that had been sitting for 10 years and that it might be for sale. Thanks to John he had Colin and Gloria Morman's details and so I rang Colin and we talked about his Heron.

Colin had ordered his Heron in 1983, and it was delivered in 1985, (although Registered in 1984)

This is a Summit Engineering built car, Number 14, 2000cc Fiat Twin cam, 5-Speed, painted Silver with light grey leather look upholstery and burgundy coloured inserts in the seats, the door panels and the roof lining.

Minor details had to be sirted to get it ready for a WOF and VIN. We went through the WOF and it needed 1 x wheel bearing, Tyres, they were perishing on the walls even though the tread was brand new. The motor was 90mm from the ground and it should be 100mm, the headlights needed adjusting and they needed to Vin it and etch the rear window. We fixed all the issues as well as the WOF failure issues and had the Certifier test and drive the car. Everything was Ok, it had passed the Low Volume Vehicle Certification.