NZ Hot Rod

Published since 1967, N.Z. HOT ROD is dedicated to portraying every sphere of Hot Rodding. From traditional and modern Hot Rods to Street Machines, Muscle Cars and Race Cars, NZ Hot Rod features them all. Plus there's coverage of many of the 100 or so hot rod events, including Drag meets from around New Zealand and overseas.

NZ Hot Rod

Publisher’s PODIUM

Box 8 Waipu LETTERS

Just in PASSING

Rapid Transit • MIKE GUY & DAWN COOPER’S 1949 FORD PICKUP

Did You Know? • The story of Ashburton’s Best Motorsport Export

The Krysler Shop

ONE MAN SHOW

The Cars Came Home • Real Rides Celebrates 20 Years

Profile Lew Henry - A Lifetime of Hot Rodding

Industry NEWS

Lost in the Woods • OVER 23 years ago, Harry Orpwood left this “rotten” Model A Roadster Pickup at my place. I recently sold my property, so Harry and Paul French had to come and retrieve it. While resting and slowly committing sheet metal suicide, it’d been gate-crashed by three self-seeded trees that had grown through it. 3-1/2 hours later … success, I think!

Geronimo • PATRICK “PATCH” JENDEN’S 1959 CHEVY 3100 APACHE

Where are they now? • Ron Matcheson’s T-Bucket and Deuce

Early Times Picnic • Compton, Los Angeles, 14 June 2026

Pretty in Pink • CRAIG STARE’S 1957 CHRYSLER NEW YORKER, ROLLESTON, CANTERBURY

Lone Star Roundup

Upcoming EVENTS

Toolbox TALES • When Casky Met Isky