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Old Oct 23, 2009 | 05:06 PM
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Not a kid, a car! My son and I just picked up a 1966 Plymouth Valiant for $100.-! He called me and ask if it was worth anything, and I said "does it have the taillights in it"? He said "yea, it's pretty nice with just some bits of the engine off and in the trunk" I said it's worth a hundred bucks, buy it!

It took eight hours of work to get the 225 six-banger going, put a clutch in it ('three-on-the-tree') and fix the front drum brakes. The thing appears to run on air, since we have yet to put fuel in it, and people stop us all the time to say "I had one of those"!

WoooHooo!

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Old Oct 23, 2009 | 05:47 PM
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Not a Corvette, but still a pretty cool story. Thanks for sharing!
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