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Ollie's ODDJOBS

It may not have escaped your notice that one sure-fire way to appear as an Odd-Job is the relatively simple expedient of shoving an inappropriate engine into a strange frame. I'm not talking about Tribsas or Tritons here. Even bunging a Square Four or Black Shadow engine into a Featherbed won't cut it. We're looking for imagination here.I live in hope of coming across a Sinclair C5 with a RD250 engine on the back or a Moto Guzzi with a two-stroke Tatra V8 bolted in place.

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