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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 11:24 AM
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https://newjersey.craigslist.org/cto/5987438733.html

You can only hope it's numbers matching.
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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 11:52 AM
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...Is this 79 in your future...
In a word, No.
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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 12:07 PM
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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 12:10 PM
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Does it come with a Fedora, a Scepter and some powder?
Where are da hos at?

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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 12:17 PM
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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 12:23 PM
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"IF" the bumpers were not so gross and you knocked a zero off the price i would buy it paint it all black, trim it out like Elviras t bird and drive it...but i look like one of the Munsters anyway so...
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Hmmm.......

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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 12:55 PM
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...trim it out like Elviras t bird...
For our younger members who may not know Elvira.



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Reconstructed title?
It's certainly not my style.
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"Legendary" Les Dunham????



...............and he built 50 of them????


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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 08:58 PM
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Actually its this the barris version of the neo classic maddness that i would love to have, i didnt say i think its pretty but always thought it was weird funky cool,

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Was watching it on ebay a few weeks ago.

Topped out at 7k something.

Certainly is different, that's for sure.
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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 09:38 PM
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Looks like Iraqi Bling.
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Old Feb 16, 2017 | 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by leadfoot4
"Legendary" Les Dunham????



...............and he built 50 of them????



Hmmm...infamous might be more appropriate : )
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Old Feb 17, 2017 | 07:09 AM
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as we say in Australia, its a bucket of ****.
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Hmmm...infamous might be more appropriate
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Old Feb 17, 2017 | 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by The13Bats
Actually its this the barris version of the neo classic maddness that i would love to have, i didnt say i think its pretty but always thought it was weird funky cool,
Now that is a good looking car.
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What have they done? Someone buy it and kill it.
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Originally Posted by maverickmk
Now that is a good looking car.
I dont know that i consider it good looking just so darn different, black with a bat hood ornament...i would drive it.
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