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  • #46
    Ezflair, my concern would be the limited market. The likely buyer is probably over 50, has a few million spare for toys and lives in Australia - a small number of people. I wouldn't be that brave. Plenty of 8 figure Ferraris around, some bought by investment groups but that is a car with worldwide appeal. Or ex movie cars, etc Bottom line a $20K car you can thrash the hell out of and not be financially destitute is always going to be more fun Quite a few have been caught with cars they bought 5 or 10 years ago and are now too expensive to take out for more than a Sunday drive now for the owner.

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    • #47
      Had a 57 Dodge Custom Royal in the early 70s. 2 doors, fins, chrome, more chrome and an old school overhead valve V8. No pretensions at performance, this thing was a powerful cruiser, pure and simple. Swapped out the stock exhaust for twin 2 inch straight through copper tubes.
      The memory of balmy night cruises through Melbourne's inner city lanes with the accompanying burble reverberating off the walls. The occasional spurt raising the volume and pitch, causing the tail to lower, the bonnet to lift - still thrills, even all these years later.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by OCD View Post
        ...............Swapped out the stock exhaust for twin 2 inch straight through copper tubes............
        Copper?????? 2 inch copper is not cheap.

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        • #49
          Copper plated?

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          • #50
            OCD had to google to check it was the one I thought, the fins are really something. The sort of car you regret selling now.

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            • #51
              At the time, those in the know specified copper. I'm guessing that the successful construction of any fine musical instrument is as much dependent on material used as on method employed and, to my ears, the dodge's V8 was such an instrument. Right up there with a Harley Davidson's potato, potato but more mellow and distinctly old school V8 with separated banks.
              You gotta have been there.

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