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on October 4 2017 |
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by Alastair Sloane |
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Sixty years ago, the movie Thunder Road was about a moonshiner hauling whiskey through the back woods of Kentucky and Tennessee. It starred Robert Mitchum, who carried the hooch in a souped-up 1950 two-door Ford. The story goes that the car was actually a modified 1951 Ford Deluxe. Anyway, Jay Leno remembers the movie, if not the actual car. The American TV host this week heads down memory lane with a dream version of a 1951 Ford Club Coupe …
Alastair Sloane has been a newspaper journalist for almost 50 years.
Has had all sorts of roles along the way, including editing two daily newspapers. Joined the NZ Herald from the Sunday Star-Times in 1996 to help launch a sports weekly. Became motoring editor of the Herald soon after, a position he held until leaving in 2012. He owns a 1968 VW Beetle. Best days at the wheel include doing part of the Land Rover Camel Trophy route in Papua New Guinea, driving a Nissan Patrol over earthquake-hit roads in Guatemala, and a Ferrari Italia 458 on Enzo’s old hill-climb road in Italy.
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