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My first ever slant: a 1971 Plymouth Satelite with 225 and automatic. It had been purchased new by a retiree to tow behind a motorhome. It had about 77k original but some cancer to include rust through spots on the hood. I gave $125 for it on Fort Dix, New Jersey in 1990. A friend pulled the engine out and we dropped it into this:
I gave $100 for this 1970 Dart (also on Fort Dix) and dropped the Plymouth's slant into it as it's original slant had a pretty serious knock in it. I drove it for a few months and then traded it to a Staff Sergeant named Ivanovich from NYC for a Monte Carlo.
Eventually I bought this 170 slant/automatic 1968 Valiant in Browns Mill, NJ for $165:
The 'primer' is actually gray house paint applied by the previous owner who also owned a lumber yard. He owned the car for about eighteen years and took real good care of it. I seem to remember mileage being 115k or so. Eventually I got it painted and it looked like this:
In June of 1991 I drove it from New Jersey back to my home state of Oklahoma on $51 worth of gas. I then sold it for $300 to a friend who begged me for it. He was (is) notorious for killing cars but drove this one for three years before losing it to a loan company for a past due amount of $80.
I found this 1964 Dart with 170/3 speed standard in Meridian, Oklahoma in January of 1992 and gave $150 for it. It had a knock in it but ran great. Eventually I swapped out it's engine and tranny for a low mileage combo out of a '63 four door (no title) that I drove home for $50.
This was how it looked after being t-boned on the ice of I-44 near Fort Sill in January of 1993.
I saved the SBP mags and threw them on my last slant, a 1969 Valiant with 225 and auto that set me back $300.
I got rid of it about 1993 and didn't own a slant again until 2007 when I bought this one for my daughter off Craigslist - she picked it out by the way and she loves it's styling.
It's a 1961 Plymouth Savoy with a 225, 904 automatic (push button), less than 95k original and was stored in a barn from 1975 until 2005. We actually bought it in a Route 66 ghost town called Bridgeport, Oklahoma.
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