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    RESTORATION LEGEND

    Nov 29, 2019 3 minutes
    BY JUDE WOODSIDE
    Photographs: Jude Woodside

    Mike Hobson is a bit of a legend in the lower North Island. For 32 years he has been rebuilding, regrinding, re-boring, and repowering engines for classic cars, motorbikes, and less classic makes throughout the area and beyond. His impressive shed contains everything he needs to perform any kind of precision surgery and there can’t be many things he can’t do or hasn’t done to an engine.

    Mike started his working life as a mechanic’s apprentice

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