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MOTHER Nature has wreaked havoc on the car events calendar lately, so we were relieved to spot blue October skies peeking through the clouds at the annual Harrigan’s Rod & Custom Show.

Around 500 cars cruised out to the water’s edge at Harrigan’s Drift Inn in Calypso Bay, midway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, to enjoy South-East Queensland’s largest one-day automotive show, now in its 14th year.

More than 4000 spectators came through the gates, greeted on arrival by rows of

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