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millwatermotors visits the Kumeu Hot Rod Show
In the Christmas/New Year edition, we featured some special hot-rods and we also featured Kumeu as our “near neighbour”. This month, we showcase just some of the 5,000 or so that appeared at the Kumeu Classic Car and Hot Rod Festival on 15-17 January last.
me”. “Our passion is to put people before profit, and we always welcome the exhibitors who display such original artwork on wheels”. Ken owns the successful national signage business, NCI Limited and is a life member of the New Zealand Hot Rod Association.
Organisers Ken and Desma Galvin invited theMillwatermag to come along and they made us very welcome indeed. They are justifiably proud of the Kumeu Classic Car and Hot Rod Festival, which they started 22 years ago, before being joined by Shayne Reynolds after 7 years. Ken said clearly “The people who exhibit here and the visitors who attend are the stars, not
The Kumeu Classic Car and Hot Rod Festival runs on the third weekend of January every year and is the best precursor imaginable to the Hibiscus Rodders Beach Festival in Orewa, which ran on the last weekend of January (too late for this magazine going to press). President of the Hibiscus Rodders, David Swan, brought many of his 80-90 members and their cars to the Kumeu show. The Hibiscus Rodders have been around for 30+ years and have many members in the Millwater/Silverdale area. They are organising the Red Thread Event in Orewa on February 14, raising money for the Heart Foundation. Their mascot “Heartie” will be there, handing out free t-shirts to kids.
