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LOVEABLE LARRIKINS

made a pretty bold statement 26 years ago that, “I’ve done my time with clubs and associations, and I won’t ever be doing that again”. Truth be told, when I said that, I’d had six or so years of being president of the Wanganui Road Rodders hot rod club during the 1980s, and then straight into seven years as president of the NZHRA from 1989 to 1995. The NZHRA years were particularly tough because of big changes that we were encountering at the time, and, by the end of that

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