About Us & Hours

We are having delays on our stock coming out of UK due to the lack of cost effective air freight, we are working on trying to get small orders sent to help minimise shortages and we are sea freighting larger items.

We will endeavour to update stock on our website and remove the ability to buy on items that are out of stock, but if you have any enquires please send us a message.

We are operating from 4 Islington Ave (just off Waterloo Road) Christchurch, we are open Monday 8.30 to 5.15, Tuesday- Thursday: 8.00am-5.15pm, Friday 8.00am-4.30pm & Saturday by arrangement, Sunday Closed.

At Palmside NZ we carry and sell quality race/rally Motorsport apparel, Helmets, motorsport accessories include Racetech and Sparco seats, Beltenick Harnesses, Seat brackets, Silo and Zamp Helmets and all thing cockpit related, we are agents for Revolution & JBW competition/classic car wheels, Magnum Escort and Mini Panels, Quaife drive line components and more all online or from our showroom in Christchurch.

We specialise in English Ford competition and road car parts for Escort, Capri, Cortina, Anglia & also Classic Mini. We also carry a range of competition parts for other makes and models.

If you have orders of a few panels or carb items that you want to come and get we advise either phoning the list through or emailing as we can get busy and it will help save delays.

Our experience in the motorsport industry sets us apart from our competitors and you will benefit from our expert knowledge, as we understand what it takes to build winning race and rally cars.

Palmside NZ  2023 LTD is owned Deane Buist & Richard Fairhall, Day to Day sales you will Find them along with Simon in our Islington Showroom, Simon is the go to guy for carb enquires and mini parts along with all the other range, between us we hope we can help lead you down the right path.

Deane Buist

Deane Buist has been rallying since 1987. He has competed in over 250 rallies from club level to the New Zealand Rally Championships and competed in the International Rally New Zealand from 1995 to 1999. His vast rallying experience also includes the Race to the Sky hill climb in Queenstown NZ, Otago Classic Rally, Silver Fern as well as the Alpine Rally of East Gippsland in Australia in 2017.

He has achieved great success, winning a host of competitions including some National Championship classes, New Zealand Club 2WD in 2001 and 2002 and New Zealand Kiwi 2 Class in 2003 to name but a few, competed in 2010 and 2012 Silver Fern, 2014 Silver frond, SI Targa, 2017 Alpine Rally in Australia plus most local rallies in the Mainland rally series, Otago Classic rally winner in 2007, 2021 and 2022.

Palmside NZ LTD has a workshop run by Brent Buist that builds and services 2WD rally cars that compete in NZ and Mainland Championships, including the mighty RX8 of Marcus van Klink, many BDA Escort's and the Tarmac Starlet, he has also built front wheel drive cars like our 2021 Otago classic winner the MK2 VW Golf GTi.