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Wild Honey Winner

HI PAUL, Nostalgia is great, and I thoroughly enjoyed the Wild Honey article; I saw it at Autorama in ‘67 and in subsequent years. I have the ‘69 and ‘70 Autorama programmes, and I also have the Australian Hot Rod magazine depicted in the article photos, plus one or two other magazines of that vintage. As well as containing a feature on Wild Honey, that issue also has a feature on TNT owned at that time by Robert Jarvis. Of course, the great Autorama drawcard was Pink Panther, as mentioned in the article and having seen it on display while under construction in Upper Hutt, I was certainly not disappointed seeing it in its finished state.

Because I had them out, I then browsed through a couple of the other Australian magazines and by coincidence, I found a feature on Terry Ferguson’s ‘32 Ford coupe and in another magazine an article about Noel Usherwood’s ‘32 coupe, which I believe was

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