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TO SOME PEOPLE, HOT RODDING IS A RELIGION; JIM HANHAM’S SHED MAY AS WELL BE THEIR TEMPLE

CONNAL GRACE

Some things don’t change. Jim Hanham grew up making things with his hands; spent most of his life making things with his hands; and, now that he’s retired, finds himself doing the same thing! “I’ve been into [old] cars since I was a kid, ’cause my old man had them. We had no money, so I learnt from an early age that if you want something, you build it,” he explains of his approach to life. “I don’t believe in buying a chassis, buying a front end … anybody can do that. I’m not saying any of that is wrong — it’s the way it is now. But I was brought up with no money. When I built that [Model A] roadster pickup, I had no money, but I had…

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NZV8 (Digital) - 1 Issue, No 159 August 2018

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