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Two From One

IF YOU were to make a list of your most influential hot rods, it would likely be an endless one. One car, out of many, which I absolutely drooled over when I was a teen, was Lenny Jones’ ‘32 Ford Roadster, in any of its three incarnations from 1970 to 1975, from Harbour City Rod Club.

The first build, as a channelled roadster with a ‘39 Mercury Flathead

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