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Despite having spent a small fortune on my two Prima Donna project cars, I'm once again relegated to driving my 20-year-old, bone-stock, $900 winter beater. Diva number 1, a customized Dodge pickup truck dubbed "The Mighty Dak", has just undergone expensive surgery to replace its ball joints. And yet it sits--with every cubic inch of its powertrain massaged, stroked and having gone less than 5,000 loving kilometres--awaiting a new starter motor.