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READER’S RESTO RECOVERY

This car wasn’t really planned as, at the time, I’d just got hold of a 1966 Mustang notchback as my first classic car. My brother was living in the states at the time and had been there years. He was a few months from leaving. This was when the Aussie dollar was more than the USA and I said “why don’t you bring home some Mustangs?” He thought I was kidding and I said, “No, I’m serious.”

So I said I want a manual V8. He found one each for him and me and we got them restored over there, which was not expensive at the time. Getting it done overseas is pretty hair-raising, you’re sending photos back and forth.

In the meantime this Charger came up and I wasn’t expecting it. I had a chat to my wife and said, “What do you think?

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