KAINE Fiorenza might be just into his 30s, but he’s had a passion for early Valiant hardtops for over half his life. In fact, he owns three of them!
“I dropped out of school at 14 to buy my first one,” Kaine says. “The idea was to strip it and paint it, but I broke the [rear] window trying to remove it.” In his defence, Kaine was pretty young at the time and didn’t know that you shouldn’t try and lever a toughened screen out with a screwdriver!
The rear window on Val hardtops is a pretty odd shape, and back then Kaine couldn’t find one for sale anywhere. Instead, he bought a whole car – the in the shed and advertised it, but it never sold,” he recalls.
