Canadian gem rescued from 40 years of garage storage - Driving
Ron Dolling’s neighbours know he customizes cars. The 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser he bought new and drives daily has been radically altered to look like a supercharged dragster boosted with nitrous oxide. Just before Christmas last year, his neighbour dropped by to ask him if he wanted an old car that had been in her parents’ garage for more than 40 years. She told Dolling that her parents had left the car in the detached garage of their Calgary home when they moved to Vancouver. They thought it would be good to have a car to drive in Calgary and, when they rented their house, they left the car behind. The car was last licensed in 1974. It hadn’t moved since. Dolling’s neighbor, a physician, didn’t know anything about the car other than it was very old and she used to ride in the back seat when she was a child. She told Ron that, if he didn’t want the car, she was going to have it scrapped. Dolling was so pleased with the car that he gave his neighbor a Christmas present of $500. The tri-tone 1956 Meteor had traveled just 63,000 miles according to the odometer and the old car, apart from being dusty and dirty, looked like it was just... Source: driving.ca
