NZ Hot Rod

THE ROYSTR

WHAT would be the outcome of a positive distillation of all your lifelong automotive-related experiences? Would you retire, dining out on the memories, stay active in a mentor role or perhaps put that distilled pure essence and go again, creating something which reflected each milestone memory or encounter along your journey. It makes you think deeply about what matters, what’s right, what’s wrong, and if you were going to build from scratch on a clean sheet of paper, just what would you do. Essentially that’s the background to the vision and thinking behind this most bespoke deuce roadster we’ve seen. You see Royce Everett has 50 years of exposure to hot rodding and within that envelope of time is his passion, experience, knowledge and people he’s met along the way.

Turning back the clock 50 years saw 10-year-old Royce meet Graeme McNeill at intermediate school. Soon it was fun for Royce to ride shotgun with Graeme on trips to the drags in his Model A pickup which by-the-way, was

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