MORE HORSING AROUND

et a bunch of hot rodders together. Put on a party. Give them a few beers. Wait until late at night. And then watch funny shit happen… It’s an incremental thing. One guy does something funny, and that seems to trigger something else, and then the competitive spirit kicks in, all fuelled by too many Speights and a vivid imagination. Old mate Glenn Larsen was involved in this horse story too. He must have a thing for horses. It was 1997, and Glenn was on the organizing committee of the hot rod club that was putting on the NZHRA Street Rod Nationals that year. They’d chosen the Trentham Racecourse as their venue. Huge big area for all the cars, room for the games and stuff that goes on during a big rod-run kind of weekend. And it also had a huge conference centre inside—big enough to accommodate the thousand