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Hi Mick, I’ve recently bought a VH Valiant Regal at auction and overall am happy with it.

It’s running a 245ci six with auto and the report prior to auction gave it a reasonable bill of health – not perfect, but good enough and it is an old car.

There are no glaring problems that need to be tackled and it looks like it will get through a roadworthy.

However, I wondered if you had any advice on how to treat a ‘new’ purchase like this?

Jim Evans

mick says

work brilliantly, but the thing is you often don’t really know the car and its service history until you get it home. So, if you’re going to work on it at home, change all the fluids. With engine oil, you’re looking for metal contamination,

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