i found an awesome,well preserved ,one owner wagon. i grew up in the back of one of these wicked rides.and so began a sickness.WAGONI-ITTUS. big-daddy was my grandpas name.and we were travelers.gypsies.a dirty secret we were proud of.and so every summer he would pop up to kidnap a few road worthy boys and take us on adventures so wild that people think you are lying when you retell the story. big-daddys hustle was fixing jacks........... any way,i had some killer ideas to fix up my wagon and thought i would get online to see what was out there.i had no idea there were others ........ but i also just had a new baby boy.the wagon is awesome for two car seats,plus room for the older kids.my 14 year old daughter was embarrased when i drove it home.that changed when her friends thought it was killer.they call it 'the roach'.
The Roach??? It's definitely Green or Brown and maybe with woodgrain. Green for the street-named 'roach' or brown for the insect's color. hmmm? Neat story. Get your daughter to scan the gallery here and have a look at some of the gorgeous things people have done with wagons. Good to have you here. :2_thumbs_up_-_anima
After proving my theories wrong about the color, I gotta say that is a nice wagon. (He says sheepishly...) One guy on a Fairmont site said he saw a brown Squire with woodgrain and nicknamed it the 'Turd'. I was hurt. Mine was a one owner with the 'Dark Tiger Eye' paint, really a dark brown after 29 years, with the dark woodgrain. She ain't no more though! November, 2006 AFTER ROLLER PAINTING (Last fall - December 2007) Hope to finish up the final assembly in the next couple weeks (its still a bit chilly here - snow on the ground and all that.)
very nice ride.i hope to be able to fix mine up.but sometimes we acquire things before we are ready for them.having another son put a damper on my project fund.and driving it every day is a joke with the price of gas.ive put around 14,000 miles on it with no problems...except that it is a gas hog.
I won't lie and tell you it's an easy job. After the bodywork is sanded, patched, etc., it takes about 10 days of rollering, wetsanding and buffing and costs around $200. Page 5 has the documents (Word format), page 18 or 19 has the cost estimates. The thread has a lot of links to all kinds of vendors and tips from all over the web. http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=711 The Gas hog issue is another beast that I'm working on too. Just for comparison. Henry's Model-T trucks had a straight 4 banger pushing out a whopping 20 HP and a maximum speed of 22 MPH. They weighed in at 1,800 lbs, all fueled up (10 gallons). Mine weighs 2,675 lbs. With the 200 CID six at 84 HP, I'd guess that it'll cruise just fine at 75 MPH, even with the 400 lb. utility trailer behind it. Without tweaking it, I should get what the previous owner got with that engine: 23 MPG HWY and 18 MPG City. With a change of springs in the distributor I should get up to about 30 MPG HWY. With a further addition of a cheap Water-Injection system using a washer bottle and vacuum lines through the same carb I should bump it up a few HP (maybe 5 to 8 HP) and a bit better mileage (10 to 15%, and cleaner combustion). If that works, then I'll make my own small backyard ethanol unit and change the jets in the carb to build a dual-fuel vehicle. If you're running a small-block engine, you could do that too. The bigger engines have too much compression. The nice thing about your wagon is that they were made for foreign markets. That means that in some countries, they made them with the gas tank on the opposite side. You could run dual-fuel all the time. Fuel costs go down by half. hehehe... And your ATF apparently support the idea of producing your own fuel ethanol!
hmm...dont see that colour combo often.....she'd look sweet with some new booties and 4 inches closer to the pavement!! congrats on the new additions
nice ooh la la...love those man..if you have any questions i pretty much know everything about the caprice estates now... before.. after..(not done yet-she's at the fabricators as we speak getting shaved) And this is how she'll look after getting shaved (except im not doing the hood scoop)
your wagon is one sweet ride.i would love to do exactlywhat you did.man, that is on insane wagon you got.
very nice wagon indeed. today at work i had visons of a ford 9-inch,383 stroker motor,classic cragars.......the nut house hey? alas,i am home! thanks for the reply.
thanks alot man. didnt want to hijack your thread..congrats on the new boy too! I'm still waiting for the damn 383..still has the stock 305but with the exhaust it sounds more than it is. imo the hardest thing about doing on of these up is the removal of trim and woodgrain!! lol..
