NZ Hot Rod

Obsidian Obsession

ary Timms is no stranger to hot rodding, having cut his teeth way back in 1976 when he acquired his first car, which was a 1936 Ford V8 sedan. Even before then, when in his younger days when he was starting his apprenticeship as an engineer, he'd often ride his motorbike past the Mahora Gas Station in Hawke's Bay where the well-known local hot rodders, the Morris brothers, had their ‘32 Ford 3-window coupe and sedan. The brothers eventually sold the Deuces and bought an orange 1936 Ford V8 sedan, and it was that car which sowed

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