A man after my own heart...goes to Craiglists for some wheels and buys another car while he's there. Haha.
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Ahahaha! You know, the video doesn't even tell the whole story, which is even better: Six months before I ever wound up meeting the man through Craigslist, I was doing my usual internet scouring to find old Metro-Dade or City of Miami police car pictures. And I came across these pictures at copcar.dot.com (
http://copcardotcom.fotki.com/contr...hrough_georgia/florida/fl-miami-police-7.html):
When I saw the blue Florida "Antique" plate, my heart skipped a beat - it's hard enough to dig these things up, and this was listed as a "Miami Police" 1968 Plymouth (it's a clone, but that's beside the point - it was probably in the South Florida area).
Anyway, 6 months later, I put out the Craigslist ad, and a fellow calls me up. Says he has a set of four wheels. We talk a bit, and he says he has a 4-door '68 Satellite as well. Well, that was intriguing enough, and we made arrangements to meet that weekend.
Well, I drove up in my '69 Valiant, and sure enough, I found myself at the same house in the pictures, in front of that same garage, staring at the same de-trimmed and very Belvederey-looking Satellite. If fate was trying to tell me it was "meant to be," I was practically getting hit in the face with it. He told me his price and after 2 months of furious eBay sales, I picked it up. I know I paid too much for it (and wasn't really aware of the engine issues, which really stung), but it really didn't damper my enthusiasm.
Plus, since I've owned it (since late-2015, if I recall correctly), not a single '68 or '69 4-door Belvedere or Satellite has shown up on the local Craigslist - so it's not as if I had many other options. (Oddly enough, there have been some '66/7 Coronets and Belvederes kicking around in the Broward/Palm Beach areas).
I might add that I got the wheels too. They turned out to be the original, skinny 14x5.5" LBPs that came with the car. One was so bad I had to throw it out. Wound up eBaying the rest, for I'm only going to accept 14x5.5's on the Valiant if I find a set of the SBP steelies used on the 340 cars (and since I'm pretty stingy, that's probably not happening). And if I go through the effort of LBP, I certainly am not settling for 5.5" rims when 7" can be had.
Thanks again for subscribing. For better or worse, you might get a lot of lens experiments with Thomas the Tank Engine-themed content too though; I'm obsessed with replicating the look of that show as it was in the 1980s (pushing the boundaries of miniature cinematography is another one of my hobbies).
-Kurt
