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Cabriolet Crunch

NOTICED the article over Warren Fairhurst trying to trace the ‘32 cabriolets. One of the founding members of Capital Rodders in 1967 was Brent Morris, a signwriter who owned a red ‘32 cabriolet. He got it from a chap who had cut the body from the chassis making a right mess of it. Brent never did much with it and had it for a couple of years. Then it somehow ended up in the hands of a collector Graham Barrett who lived in Featherston. He had it for a few years with a silly price on it as he knew how rare it was. Graham passed away approx. Twenty years ago, and the last I heard, it was in the hands of a

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