This 1998 Buick La Sabre is the automotive embodiment of every grandfather I know; family-friendly-if-conservative demeanor up front, batshit backwoods construction project inspired by a few swigs of cough medicine out behind the house.

So yeah, somebody for... $1,200? Okay, that's actually not a bad deal. The only thing I love more than an unholy frankentruck is shade-tree ingenuity. "Ethel, where'd I put my change purse?!"

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