Found a 69 Valiant

hey gang,
picked up this survivor Valiant last sunday; found it in Belgium. Original Belgian car. Slant 6, 3-speed manual, 57000 kilometers * that's about 35000 miles on the odometer *
She has some rustissues, but it's not that bad.
Original spare, jack, trunkmat, interior, paint, engine, tranny.
Only things ever replaced: waterpump,v-belt,waterhoses ( and they were in the trunk )
Car had been standing for 30 years.

Cheers, Marcel, the Netherlands

some more pics

Nice . I like that interior .
Good luck with it

Good for you! Always fun to land something like that; I can imagine how much more exciting to find such a car over the pond. Best of luck with it.

Wow, Ive never seen an interior color combo like that.

it's nothing fancy, but it is nice to find a car as original as this one; the original waterpump was changed in the past and it was still in the trunk. I am gonna try to get it running and driving. The outside will stay like this. I am gonna clean the interior ( which is rare indeed ) and drive it. We will have a lot of fun with it!

Neat Valiant! Hard to find ones that clean. Dig the interior. More pics please!!

more pics!

the interior is very very dirty, due to standing for 30 years, but the floormat is almost like new. So a little elbowgrease and she is back in business.

it has some rust on the driverfender, right quarter and a little bit in the trunk, and that's it. It even had the original exhaust ( which fell apart when we loaded the car )
In the glovebox was an agenda from 1974 and a letter from 1978!
We are gonna try to get the engine running; we are gonna fill it completely with dieselfuel, let it stand for a few days, drain it, fill it with oil, clean the carb, clean the oilpump, check the spark and fire it up.

( dieselfuel cleans all the coalresidu )