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e can hear those of you who know Andy Brooking thinking, here we go again. Yep, the Rotorua-based serial car builder has whipped up yet another build, and yes, like all of them, it was always destined to be sold before it was even completed. As the owner of American Customs and Classics, a business that is focused on importing and building American cars for customers, it makes sense that Andy also practices what he preaches, always having a car of his own in the build at any given time, and always having his feelers out for the next one. This 1966 Mercury Colony Park is different from the usual car he would go hunting for and not from the usual place. While he imports cars almost monthly, this one was already in NZ, where it had been languishing in

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