October 2022

NZ Hot Rod

New Zealand's Longest Established Automotive Magazine

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NZ Hot Rod
PUBLISHERS: Hot Rod Publishing Ltd P O Box 8, Waipu, 0545, New Zealand PROPRIETORS: Paul & Liz Grace Ph: +64 9 4,32 1270 Email: paul@nzhotrodmag.co.nz Email: liz@nzhotrodmag.co.nz Website:www.nz-hotrod.com MANAGING EDITOR: Paul Grace ACCOUNTS: Liz Gr
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Box 8 Waipu LETTERS
READING the mag today, the article on Malcolm Wilson. The receipt he got for the boat anchor was signed by Peter Leversedge. Pete is still racing his V8 special in classics now, but he raced on the speedway dirt tracks for an eternity. I currently ow
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Publisher's PODIUM
NOPE, it’s not a taste of sweet candy, but there is good news that billions are earmarked for repairing the nation’s potholes. This may seem trivial if you live in an area serviced by smooth motorways, but let me assure you that once out on country r
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New Arrivals
For all GM restoration supplies. THIS ’67 Falcon Futura Sports Coupe just arrived in NZ. It’s complied, LVY’d & registered. Looks great, runs & drives great. Under the hood is a 200ci six-cylinder with Pertronix electronic ignition, auto transmission
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We Remember Them
SUNDAY 14th August was a great day for the Zone 2 Memorial Run - a hot rod ANZAC Day. With great weather, the event was well supported, with a diverse range of cars meeting in South Auckland for an hour-long run concluding at Ardmore. The Warbirds As
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Good Things Take Time
IT WAS Neil Young who sang numbers add up to nothing”, which came to mind when I was looking for a title for a story on Graham Freeman’s outrageous collection of New Zealand number plates last year. It was eventually titled Your Number’s Up and featu
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Just in PASSING
THIS old-time hot rod ’34 coupe body surfaced on Trade Me recently. John Me Kim owned Susy Q back in the ‘60s and recalls. “She had rod brakes and was powered by C59A flathead V8 motor bored to 301 cu inch. It had twin carbs on a Shuter manifold with
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Flying FAREWELL
WHAT a wonderful friendship we have shared with Bill and his family for 45 years. In 1977 Graham and I were welcome to Bill’s home (sight unseen) as guests for the Street Rod Nationals. In those days, it was quite an expedition from New Zealand to Mi
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The Double Nickle
BAY Rodders celebrated their 55th birthday in August with a rod run that started at their spacious clubrooms. They cruised to a Kiwi fruit packhouse in Te Puke for some traditional games and ended up at the Tauranga Citizen’s Club for lunch and some
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Deuce Days UK
BRITAIN is not that big and has never had a Deuce Day. But with this being the 90th Anniversary of the Deuce, it seemed this would be a good time to hold one. It was put on and arranged by the admins of the Face Book group ‘Deuces of Britain’, a grou
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Just in PASSING
DO you recall our Retro Rebels column? It was an “Underground Revolution” series of articles promoting hot rodding to the under-30 crowd. It was 2008 and was penned and produced by our daughter Nadine Grace. She also starred on our May 2006 cover and
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Gravel Motor Garage
THE workshop at Gravel Motor Garage was initially established by Tauranga’s Dave Best primarily to house his own projects. The 900m2 workshop, showroom and office building was purchased a few years ago for another of Dave’s businesses and his cars. T
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Flying FAREWELL
1st April 1955 -22nd August2022 ROSS was born in Auckland and commenced his high school years at Mt Albert Grammar and completed them at Lynnfield College. In 1969 he left school and followed in his father’s footsteps by starting his apprenticeship a
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Winged Warrior
THEY say great oaks from small acorns grow, and that idiom certainly applies to Andrew Sinclair. That small acorn began life in ’65 and was born to a racing family. His dad Keith raced offshore powerboats back in the early ‘70s then circuit boats and
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Slick Garden Art
RAY has been a panelbeater all his life, and one of his specialties has been a lifetime of intricate reconstruction of smashed cars, giving them a second chance at life. He only ever had one old car, a Model A coupe, which got sold when he sh ifted h
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The Last One
RON Gubb has built one or two good cars in his days, and for a home builder, there would probably be very few people in New Zealand who have built six top cars in their basic home workshop. Ron is a foundation member of Oceanside Street Rods in Mount
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Father's Day Drags
A great day unfolded at the 2022 Father’s Day Drags as 3,500 spectators filled the bleachers and hills to a level not seen in many years. They came to watch and support their fathers, having fun. The entry list topped 142 cars plus another four dedic
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Kiwis Overseas Hot August Nights
HOT August Nights is a four-day event based in Reno, Nevada and is a celebration of Hot Rods and Rock and Roll with shows, concerts, swap meets and vendors at venues throughout the Reno-Tahoe area! Unfortunately, this year a bout of heavy rain put a
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A taste of Kiwi Deuce Fordor Sedans
Part 3 WE stepped out and over the traditional boundaries with our Part 2 and subsequently received new and additional information, enabling us to present this extra look at Kiwi Deuce Fordor sedans in Part 3. Footnote: We do not claim this to be a c
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Industry NEWS
AFTER troubled times and a long absence, the very popular Rodders Journal is back and available now in New Zealand through Magoo’s Street Rods. Magoo’s offers an issue-by-issue priority subscription service and has also managed to import more of Volu
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Upcoming EVENTS
> 1 Aroha Cruise in. > 1 Manawatu Swapmeet in Fielding > 2 Smokefest Burnout Comp at Masterton Motorplex. > 2 Wellington Rodder's Breakfast at The Larfin' Tiger Cafe at Hutt Indoor Sports, 93 Hutt Park Rd. Doors open at 8.30 with a $15 Big Breakfast.
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Toolbox TALES
Two From One IF YOU were to make a list of your most influential hot rods, it would likely be an endless one. One car, out of many, which I absolutely drooled over when I was a teen, was Lenny Jones’ ‘32 Ford Roadster, in any of its three incarnation

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