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revvin' kevin

Posted 2022-11-10 7:07 PM (#625506)
Subject: After 36 years, I finally got another FL car!

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1n 1986, I had a '60 Seneca 4-door that I paid $70 for. It was hammered inside and out, but ran pretty good. I wound up trading it for a running VW engine that I needed to get my bus running, but I never forgot that car.

Fast forward to three years ago...I had been passively looking for an FL car, but I was pretty picky as to what I wanted. It needed to have a Slant-Six and a manual transmission, and if not a base -model, it needed to be a low-optioned, no-frills car. It needed to be either a first-gen Dart, or the Plymouth counterpart. It needed to be a 2-door or a wagon.

A few came up, but they were either over-priced, clapped-out, way too over-done for both my budget and tastes, too far away, or some combination of the aforementioned.

Fast forward to last week, I was again passively perusing the internet, and I found a '61 Pioneer 2-door post that was perfect. not too beat-up, not too nice, not too overly-expensive, and not too far away. Slant-Six, manual trans, and although a mid-trim model, this car is devoid of frills...No PS, no PB, no radio. It does have carpet and back-up lights, and since it's an early one, it isn't cursed with the secondary tail lights.

Ladies and gentlemen...I introduce you to Pauline. Pauline Green. Kinda ugly and kinda mean.