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Box 8 Waipu LETTERS

Where is it now?

HI PAUL & LIZ. Seeing the results of my Familiaral Art 4-part feature kicking off in the November ’21 issue portraying the talents of the Campbell brothers was indeed a treat. Extracting information out of those two guys is/was as entertaining as well as educational. I was recently talking with Owen, and we were reminiscing about a madcap trip we made along with equally madcap Canadian Bob Smith in the mid-1980s. We went from Auckland to Wellington to purchase a rare 1963 Fairlane Compact Ranchwagon.

Bob Smith worked for an Otahuhubased car dealership selling mainly

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