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Colloquially known as 'pepper pots or colanders'.

Cars regularly appear with an excess of holes, often with modern cars it is because replacement motors have different mounting hole spacing. Not a problem unless they are so close that the holes break into each other. The worst we have seen had eight sets of holes spaced along the casting and one with six, as whoever changed the engine did not take the prop driver off. This needed new holes in the body as well. The 1066 Conquest shown here must take something of a record as there are close to fifty holes drilled in the pan. Taking a drill or hacksaw to a car or engine was relatively common in the day, but seldom to this extreme.

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