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1956 DESOTO FIREFLITE

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You may have figured out by now that Jim doesn’t tend to own cars you would classify as ‘normal’, and his ’56 DeSoto Fireflite is certainly far from it. It isn’t only rare but in great condition, too. “All the front of the chassis I had sandblaste­d. It’s all brand new,” Jim tells us. “It was in a shed in Taupo, and everything you see in here was inside the car — all the chrome; it was all stacked in there.” It belonged to a mate of his, who told him about it, and Jim happily bought it off him. Bringing it home around five years back, Jim rebuilt it to the way it is now. “Shit, the amount of people who want to buy it!” he says — we figure that he isn’t too keen on letting this one go.

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