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Toolbox TALES

ON one of several occasions when Rob Kennard rang me, he told me to bring my camera ‘round to his place the following morning, as some North Island rodders were staying over, on their way to the Southern City Rod Show in Dunedin. It was January 1974.

Arriving on my push bike around 8am, I was suitably blown away to find Gary Martin’s ’36 coupe, Dave Mitchell’s ’34

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