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    Just for the hell of it

    Nov 29, 2019 4 minutes
    By Ray Cleaver
    Photographs: Rob Tucker

    Turning a two-wheel-drive into a four-wheel-drive car by adding an extra motor has been a long-running but successful engineering challenge for retired New Plymouth mechanic Albert Gordge.

    What made the operation more unusual was that Albert put the extra motor into the rear of a 1972 Morris 1300. The Morris 1100s and 1300s were popular cars in the ’60s and ’70s — front-wheel drive cars with a sideways-mounted engine, a slightly bigger version of the Mini.

    Anybody who has ever put a motor into a car that’s not made for it will know the headaches that can and usually do occur. How about putting a motor into

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