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Family Fordor

OCEANSIDE’S Pat McKenna has a love of hot rods and history, and as a cornerstone to his passion, he owns the ex-Morris brother’s Deuce Fordor sedan, which hailed from the Hawkes Bay in the mid-late sixties. The car was sold new in Hawkes Bay in 1932, its original identification body stamping was (HB356), and Deuce afficianado Barry Dew has this confirmed in his Ford Deuce files. Its long history in Hawkes Bay began with the number plate ED1661 and then HB32 and currently has 32CDAN. Its known history started when the Morris Brothers brought it in the early 1960s. Tommy

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