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FLICKING THE V

Car: 1959 100E

Start condition: A cheap rusty £300 shell, with many holes in it!

Condition now: Rust removed, lowered, roll-caged and with a big turbocharged V8 dropped in the bay!

Time taken so far: 18 months

Estimated date of completion: Hopefully Summer 2021

Name: Neil Alexander

Age: 36

Job: Air compressor engineer

Location: Northamptonshire, UK

If there’s one thing in the car scene that is guaranteed to both enthral and infuriate in equal measure, it’s an engine swap. Respected and revered by those with the requisite open-mindedness to see the skill and imagination of the engineering exercise, yet blasphemous to those

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