NZ Hot Rod

Toolbox TALES

I RECALL going for a ride in a Model A Ford about 35 years ago, give or take a couple, and thinking how narrow the doorway was, gouging my ass and lower back on the door jamb: and I’m only a little fella. At the 2019 Muscle Car Madness event, me ol’ mate Builda, with a beard reminiscent of dense jungle foliage, the sort of facial fur you’d naturally associate with a Billy goat, either end, had the

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