WHERE THERE’S SMOKE …
The year 1986 (might have been 1987) doesn’t sound like a long time ago to someone of my generation, but it always surprises the shit out of me when I stop and think about just how long ago that was — 35 years ago. Soon enough it’ll be 40 years ago. And, good health permitting, us old pricks will be looking back on the things we did in the ’80s, pausing for a moment, and saying, “Damn, that was half a century ago.”Where the hell has it all gone?
Anyway, over a third of a century ago, one of the hot rod events that us Whanganui car guys liked going to was the
