NZ Hot Rod

RACER’S ROD

HOT rodders always pride themselves with exceeding original factory performance limits in every way they can but leave it to a racer to take that limit to a whole new level, and that’s exactly the case with rodder and racer Dean Perkins.

The motor has a split personality and is docile down low and around town while packing plenty of punch up top.

Dean is now 57-years-old but has always been interested in hot rods, and even from an early age of seven he

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