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The Start Of It. My 72' Round Rest/mod


turbophil

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Last year after some searching I found a 1972 round for sale that was only 4 hours away. A couple of calls and a borrowed trailer, myself, my brother and a friend of mine hit the road to go see a car. When I got there it didn't seem a good as it did in the pics. We looked it over, drove it around the block and then looked it over again. The rockers weren't the greatest, oil was pissing out of the front engine cover and the transmission, the exhaust was leaking and the interior panels and seats were um.. ok. It did however have clean floors and solid front and rear wheel wells and shock towers.

After a beer and dinner full of talk and decisions, I decided I wasn't going to buy it. I called the seller and told him I wasn't going to purchase it. On our way out of town and more discussion I realized that I still really liked the car and that it actually was what I was looking for. Rust wasn't crazy and to be honest, I didn't care about the mechanical since I knew I would be rebuilding it all anyways. I called the guy back, gave him an offer, we turned the truck around and loaded the car in the rain. That day we did a round trip of about 850kms and got home at 2am.

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The next day I woke up to pictures of the car on the trailer, posted on Facebook by my wife. I guess she liked it haha. Bonus!

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