NZ Hot Rod

Publisher’s PODIUM

Reflections

WITH Xmas just around the corner, it’s time to put pen to paper for my last editorial for the calendar year 2018, our milestone fifty-first year of publishing. Looking back on these past 12 months I see many highlights, and they begin with the amazing synchronicity of our January issue’s main feature of Dave Tuke’s deuce roadster and the comparison of it Dave Chung’s Pink Panther cover: both were red roadsters, shot beside boats and 50 years apart! A stunning coincidence, or best planning ever. I’ll claim a coincidence!

2018 was a year

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