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BY BUD WILKINSON | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
It was last June that Eric Taylor of Torrington came upon an automotive relic that turned into a COVID-19 pandemic winter project. At the time, he was behind the wheel of a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair that he then owned but has since sold.
“I was driving around and I was up in Colebrook one day,” he said, recalling that a resident “chased me down and said, ‘I got a Corvair in my backyard that needs a home.’ So, I went to go see it.”
There wasn’t much to see.
“It was a stripped out body. There wasn’t a single screw in it. There was no motor, no wheels, no seats, no nothing and I took it home,” he said of what he learned was a solid shell of a 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder.
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