NZ Hot Rod

Driven Deuce

MURRAY Bird has been, like most of us, interested in hot rods since he was a child. He probably didn’t have much choice as his dad was a petrol head, so it was inevitable that something would happen car wise along the way. It seems this didn’t take long as he, with the help of his brother, built his first hot rod at the tender age of 15. This was a T-bucket, no doubt using the Hot

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