zhandfull
Well-Known Member
I had these wheels and needed a car for them. It's true I had these small bolt pattern 15X3.5 and 15X8 steel wheels that I bought over a year ago at one of the spring fling events.
So last week I found this little gem and picked it up.
Original owner took his wife to the dealer to buy her a car. She seen this Valiant on the turn table in the showroom and said that's the one. This Valiant led a pampered life going to the store and around town for 39 years and was always garaged. Years later she passed away and he kept the car till he was put in to a rest home. With 70,000 original miles it was sold to the young female college student who used it as a daily driver for the last 4 years till buying a new car. It now has 95,000 miles on it and has been repainted with a crappy single stage paint job and has some dents and dings.
But the core car is just perfect. Everything works! I drove it 130 miles home without even test driving it. LOL... I managed 24mpg on the way home mostly down hill freeway driving but I was still impressed with this little slant six. You can't even hear it running at intersections.
So the plan is just a cool little cruiser. This weekend I painted the wheels to match and put them on also lowered the rear with a couple hundred pounds of ballast and cranked the torsion bars down a little in the front. Other that that its going to get some interior work and I think it's done.
Here some pictures
So last week I found this little gem and picked it up.
Original owner took his wife to the dealer to buy her a car. She seen this Valiant on the turn table in the showroom and said that's the one. This Valiant led a pampered life going to the store and around town for 39 years and was always garaged. Years later she passed away and he kept the car till he was put in to a rest home. With 70,000 original miles it was sold to the young female college student who used it as a daily driver for the last 4 years till buying a new car. It now has 95,000 miles on it and has been repainted with a crappy single stage paint job and has some dents and dings.
But the core car is just perfect. Everything works! I drove it 130 miles home without even test driving it. LOL... I managed 24mpg on the way home mostly down hill freeway driving but I was still impressed with this little slant six. You can't even hear it running at intersections.
So the plan is just a cool little cruiser. This weekend I painted the wheels to match and put them on also lowered the rear with a couple hundred pounds of ballast and cranked the torsion bars down a little in the front. Other that that its going to get some interior work and I think it's done.
Here some pictures
