Zephyr & Zodiac Car Club Christchurch

Clubs stated aim is to preserve and maintain all models of Consuls, Zephyrs and Zodiacs

The Ford Zephyr was a car labelled as an executive model, manufactured by the Ford motor company of Britain from 1950 to 1972.
With the Ford Zodiac and Ford Executive being its luxury model, which were the largest passenger cars in the British Ford range from 1950 until their replacement by the Consul and Granada models in 1972.

The Consul and Zephyr were assembled at Ford New Zealand's Seaview factory in Lower Hutt from CKD kits. The large Fords were competed with the locally built Vauxhall Wyvern and Velox and, later the Australian Holden. When the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II visited New Zealand as part of a Commonwealth tour in the early 1950s, she was pictured watching Zephyrs being built at the local Ford plant.

Zephyr Mk IV combining the 3-litre engine of the Zodiac adopted by Ford New Zealand which had originally launched the Mk IV Zephyr assembled locally from CKD kits with the 2.5-litre V6.

Ford New Zealand also introduced optional floor shift and bucket seats as an alternative to the standard column shift and bench front seat and a large number of Zephyrs were built in this form, with other modifications, for New Zealand's traffic police. The Zodiac was also again assembled in New Zealand with both bench and bucket front seats. Automatic transmission was optional with both the Zephyr and Zodiac.

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