Save The Valiant!

[tess]

Remember the Valiant that was saved from the fires?

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http://www.chryslersonthemurray.com/
Well at the biggest annual Chrysler Car Show on the weekend in Albury it was a star.

http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/l...ire-survivor-heads-chrysler-show/1460137.aspx

A VALIANT rescued from the flames of Black Saturday and a 1958 Plymouth named after a Stephen King horror novel were among the hundreds of vehicles on display at Chryslers on the Murray yesterday.

More than 580 gleaming vehicles were on display at Wodonga’s Sumsion Gardens in what organisers have described as the biggest showing in the event’s 17-year history.

After staging the event just twice at Sumsion Gardens, Albury-Wodonga Chrysler Club show organiser Rod Taylor said it had outgrown the location and next year would be staged at the Gateway Island lakes on the Lincoln Causeway.

One of the vehicles on display was the green 1965 AP6 Valiant Jim Chatzidimitriou drove through the Black Saturday flames when fleeing his Wandong home.

After seeing the blaze just 50m from his house, the plumber and father-of-two drove his mother-in-law’s car out of the fire’s path and returned for the Valiant he had restored after purchasing it seven years ago.

“This wall of flames came, I drove right through those flames and my prayers were that no one was coming up the road because I could not see anything.”

Mr Chatzidimitriou said the family home was destroyed but the only damage to the Valiant, worth about $20,000, was a few small dents.

But he said given the choice again he would not go back to save the car.

Mr Chatzidimitriou said this was the fifth time he’d been to Chryslers on the Murray and had attended this time after being invited by Bonegilla CFA captain Brian Church.

“Something good came out of the fires in Wandong and we wanted to share that with people up here,” Mr Chatzidimitriou said.

I wanted to go but my car isn't ready yet.

 

[coke_zero]

meh, who cares. could not be botherd watching any more after a min. that guy is very brave and stupid.