Buy one get one free

If you're looking for a pick-up truck, Vic Lala of New Orleans has one you might be interested in.

Another post-Katrina survivalist, Vic Lala, 79, has turned his front yard on Pirate Drive in Chalmette into a used-car lot.

White paint on the windows of a flooded 1969 Chevrolet C-10 pickup discloses that the vehicle "needs work," a monumental understatement that isn't fully appreciated until Lala pops the hood to reveal the rusted-out engine. But he's quick to point out that he slashed his prehurricane asking price in half to $1,000. Plus, he'll throw in a 1982 Ford F-150 pickup that the storm deposited on a low brick wall surrounding a flowerbed near the sidewalk.