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Special specials?

In the December issue of CMM, Steve asked whether anyone was building or had built a special that didn’t fit any of the usual categories. Would this SR250 fit the bill (I’ve attached ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots for consideration).

I bought the SR as a running hack but after about an hour I couldn’t stand the looks, so something had to be done. I ran across the Jadus site while looking for inspiration and, after seeing what other people had done with SR250s, I decided

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