newbury
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- Joined
- Jan 8, 2009
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- Location
- From Vt, in Va, retiring to MS
- Tractor
- Kubota's - B7610, M4700
In 1973 I got a 1966 Plymouth Valiant slant 6 automatic for $100. This was Burlington Vermont when they still piled the roads with salt.If you even remember when you could get a semi-roadworthy vehicle for $100 you know you're old.
It took about a gallon of bondo for it to pass inspection. The engine burned a little oil to start. About a can every couple of hundred miles.
I patched it up, had some minimal front end suspension work done.
Spring of 74' I and my girlfriend drove it for a "shake down" trip to Mexico.
And then on about another 50 miles to Bar Harbor, Maine.
Than that summer we drove it west to San Diego, up to Seattle, spent a few months and drove it back. It was starting to break down. Had to patch the brakes twice, dump radiator leak stop in the rad every couple of hundred miles.
By the time we got back to Burlington and home it was almost a total gonner. The oil mileage was approaching a quart every 50 miles. We left a trail of blue smoke behind us.
But it had done it's duty.