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Remember 1981? The year when New Zealand dragstrips were throbbing with the rails of Berry & Whiting, Garth Hogan, Mike Gearing, Ron Collett, Wymer & Clarkson. No, not Jeremy. It was also the year NZHRA celebrated its 20th Anniversary, and a Cessna pilot named Marx Jones dropped flour bombs onto an Eden Park rugby test.

At Easter that year, Ashburton played host to the Street Rod Nationals, the first time in that town, and Graeme and Megan Wells of the local Americars Club, debuted their ’32 hiboy roadster, a

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