{"id":2229,"date":"2023-11-26T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2023-11-26T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:42:39","slug":"dnepr-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=2229","title":{"rendered":"Dnepr Part three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the Dnepr has ended up becoming a bit of a money pit. Pretty much everything mechanical has been replaced (sometimes twice &#8211; as per the carbs &#8230; now fitted with a pair of Mikunis and the electronic ignition &#8211; now on its second coil pack)) but with the help and skill of my mate and old school mechanic John the old girl is running lovely. Its been to a few shows and seems to confuse even the old school &#8220;expert&#8221; who seem to confuse it with a wartime BMW (yes I put a distressed BMW badge on the tank) R75 or R51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A9537E52-A476-4024-8393-42F64231EF28-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2228\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A9537E52-A476-4024-8393-42F64231EF28-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A9537E52-A476-4024-8393-42F64231EF28-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A9537E52-A476-4024-8393-42F64231EF28-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A9537E52-A476-4024-8393-42F64231EF28-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, 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Pretty much everything mechanical has been replaced (sometimes twice &#8211; as per the carbs &#8230; now fitted with a pair of Mikunis and the electronic ignition &#8211; now on its second coil pack)) but with the help <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=2229\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}