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  • Street Machine

    PLUM CRAZY

    May 15, 2019 4 minutes
    STORY BORIS VISKOVIC
    PHOTOS
    TROY BARKER

    I’VE never understood why the VC Valiant is often overlooked as street machine material. They’re as handsome as any other mid-60s offering from GM and Ford, and they even came with a V8 from the factory. Admittedly, they weren’t anywhere near as handsome as

    Rob Barbiero’s VC Regal – and they didn’t pack over 600hp under the bonnet like his, either – but I think people are starting to cotton on to the VC and we’ll be seeing a few more in the pages of SM in the future.

    Rob’s story with this VC starts around 25 years ago, when he picked up the car from a friend of his. “It was damaged. My friend had taken it

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