Street Machine

KIWI FRUIT

TOUCHING down in Christchurch on a warm Friday afternoon, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Muscle Car Madness. Though I’d been given a vague rundown of the Kiwi car scene, I was a first-timer to the Land of the Long White Cloud, let alone its automotive culture.

TOUCHING down in Christchurch on a warm Friday afternoon, I wasn’t

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