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I'm new Here! I thought the story about the old lady with a classic car in the garage for 20 years was a myth but I found one. Its a 1967 XR7. A little rough. A little mouse-ridden but it did start with a gas can feeding a hose to the carb. Blew out a couple mouse houses out the exhaust. Here's the garage we found it in and after we pulled all the junk piled on top of it. We had to deal with the grandma, the daughter, and the grandson. The grandson was the biggest block. He wanted it but couldnt afford to restore it. I think he tried to talk the mom and grandma out of selling it but the cash in hand talked!

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Beautiful car! congrats!
I picked mine up on Saturday :)
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I'm new Here! I thought the story about the old lady with a classic car in the garage for 20 years was a myth but I found one. Its a 1967 XR7. A little rough. A little mouse-ridden but it did start with a gas can feeding a hose to the carb. Blew out a couple mouse houses out the exhaust. Here's the garage we found it in and after we pulled all the junk piled on top of it. We had to deal with the grandma, the daughter, and the grandson. The grandson was the biggest block. He wanted it but couldnt afford to restore it. I think he tried to talk the mom and grandma out of selling it but the cash in hand talked!
That’s awesome! Should be fun!
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Nice find! It will be great to get her back on the road.
Here it is when I got it home. Tires are shot but they held air. The paint looks a lot better in this pic that in person. 😄 One brake was locked up so we had to drag it up onto the trailer. I just had 4 Cooper Cobras mounted to these rims yesterday. They polished up really nice. Waiting on seats to get back from Upholstery place.
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Was it a white car previously, or was it just painted white under the hood? Looks straight and clean!
Was it a white car previously, or was it just painted white under the hood? Looks straight and clean!
Thanks, actually we can see it was green at one time by looking in the door jams, but im not sure that was even the stock color. Is there a way to check the color code on these cars?
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