NZ Hot Rod

CRACKER BOX

LONG-TIME Rodder and Life Member of Harbour City Rod Club, Wayne ‘Bish’ Bishop has been a fixture in the New Zealand rodding world for many decades, and the story you are reading is bittersweet. We had made plans to photograph Wayne & Kay's notlong completed ‘28A Ford Closed Cab Pickup, and with life having a habit of throwing curve balls, Wayne moved on to that great cruise in the sky a couple of weeks before these pics were taken.

Wayne's wife of 54 years, Kay, told us Bish was really looking forward to the feature, and it

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