NZ Hot Rod

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It’s our Birthday

What they possibly didn’t recognise at the time, was the magazine would become the missing link or voice for hot rod enthusiasts throughout the county.

HIS month marks our 55th anniversary of the magazine’s inception back in April 1967. The fab four of Rob Campbell, Gene Campbell, Bob Rossiter, and Harvey Ferguson started something none of them envisioned would be still going strong 55 years later. What they possibly didn’t recognise at that time, was the magazine would become the missing link or voice for

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