Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2023 i NZ Hot Rod

THE annual LA Roadster Show and Swap Meet in June at Pomona, California, continues to be a global favourite event for rodders. This year's 57th edition of the event hosted by the LA Roadster Club was no exception. Sure, things aren't like they used to be, but then what is in the world these days? It sure beats sitting in New Zealand in the rain! The show always attracts a great cross-section of roadsters on display, not to mention the non-roadster parking, dragster Cacklefest, outdoor vendors and also the swap meet. In fact, for many, the swap meet is the main event, and as I have said to many over the years, there's so much cool and quality stuff available that you could build a pretty cool car just from…

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MANY years ago, I found myself in the Nelson area for our annual Christmas holidays. A group of car enthusiasts used to camp together at Mapua; in fact, we did this for twenty years. Less than ten minutes away on the outskirts of Motueka is the home of Chris Webby and his relatively unknown Webb's Rod Shop. Visiting was always a highlight of my trip to view his latest projects. He would tackle anything but seemed to specialise in Model A through to 1934 Fords. Chris is exceptionally talented. Back in January 2016, when I called in, I was giving the yard the “once over” and noticed something unusual in the long grass. It was the rear section of a 1934 Ford Victoria. Being extremely nosey, I wanted to know…

WStory and photos by Paul Grace WE'D have to say, and I'm sure his family and mates will agree, that Glenn Allingham is your absolute car nut. At age 19, he kicked off his passion for cars with a flying start by buying Holden HQ Premier, in which he installed a 350 Chev and a set of Trident mags. That was followed by a couple of XM Ford Falcon coupes and a ‘55 Ford F100 powered by a 440ci Chrysler V8. Next up was the ex-Ian Rainbow ‘39 Chev two-door sedan, featured in our Feb ‘96 magazine. Glenn moved to Australia and took the Chev with him, residing there for three years before returning to NZ. His next hot rod was Russell Long's ‘33 Ford 3-window coupe which he bought…

Taf's Timeline ONE of New Zealand's most historic hot rods is heading back to the road after gathering dust for 50plus years. This Model A has, for the past sixty years, been referred to as ‘Taf Mathie's Roadster’ after he swapped a motorcycle for it in 1957. It was very likely a hot rod before Taf's ownership. When he bought it, it was red, fenderless and 4-banger powered. It went through several phases. Fenderless, fendered, bobbed fenders, all the while being Taf's main form of transportation. Soon after he took ownership, Taf was offered a '34 Ford chassis for free, and he and a mate, both on pushbikes, managed to haul the chassis home! At which point, the 4-banger was biffed in favour of a flathead V8, and the Model…

WAVERLEY is the southernmost town on State Highway 3 of the Taranaki province, and most tend to relate it to being in the Whanganui province. Whanganui City is just 44 km away from Waverley. For locals, a fair majority travel there for schooling, work, sport, shopping and general entertainment. For a small town with a pop of 900 plus, it has a lot of history from its early years as a stronghold of the NZ Wars in the 1860s. Today, it is well known for its farming and thoroughbred stables, and in 2021 the skyline changed with 31 wind turbines gracing the coastline from Waverley to Patea. Waverley is locked into New Zealand's history forever by a horse named KIWI. In 1983 KIWI won the Melbourne Cup, the pinnacle of…

LES Young has a penchant for early Ford V8s and a soft spot for the original factory styling. His ‘52 Ford Woody made the cover of our March 2002 issue and was followed by a feature on his 1936 Ford Tudor in our March 2007 mag. That's just the tip of the iceberg of Les’ collection, which now includes a ‘34 Ford 3-window coupe with roots that go right back to 1934 when Ford NZ imported it as a brand new RHD car from Ford Canada. By the mid-fifties and after 20 years on the road, these early Ford coupes became the staple diet of hot rodders eager to partake in the evolving high-performance hot rod scene. They were spurred on by images seen in American hot rod magazines available…

WE go back to the early 2000s when Ash was “tiki touring around the South Island and somehow ended up at Steve Woodfine's ‘Rusty Acres’ in Nelson. Strolling around the paddock full of early Fords, he spotted a fairly good 1937 Ford pickup cab. At this point in life, Steve had recreated an old wrecking yard full of Fords, but very little ever got sold. A few hours later, Ash was the new owner of a Ford cab to start his latest project. The next stop was a trip to New Plymouth to visit Chris Tompkins, who sold him a complete car front clip. Eventually, Ash sold his wellknown, chopped, fully fendered, blown big block Chev powered 1934 Ford coupe to Max Turner. The new project actually ‘kicked off’ in…