Erick Akeley and his rural rented shed
The interior of the shed with the strip-planked canoe
Erick Akeley is in a rather tricky position. He doesn’t own a house, but he does own five Morris Minors.
Erick shares a rented house in Christchurch that has garaging for only his 1957 ute; the other four Minors he keeps in a rented farm shed on the outskirts of the city.
Over the past couple of decades, Erick has rented various spaces around town for working on his cars. He approached a farmer after spotting an empty building on the farmer’s land. The farmer said that the building wasn’t available, but he had another that was. This is a long, narrow, low-ceilinged, much-modified construction, of no obvious agricultural purpose, at the end of a long drive. Immediately adjacent
