THE LONG GAME

It’s that time of year — chances are that quite a few of you readers will have recently had to dig deep and fork out a pile of hard-earned to the IRD. You’d rather flee the police than try to escape the long arm of the taxman. One year, when John Fenton needed to come up with a large sum in a short time, he did what he had to do and sold his nearly complete ‘Road Hog’ to get there.

Quite a few years after that sour experience, John was on the turps with his late brother’s mate Marlon Galloway, and conversation moved to the Model A that John owned before buying the Road Hog. “I said I would like to build another pre-’49 car one day,” John recalls. “Marlon mentioned he had