Distance from factory to current home of your wagon

Babe magnet? Hahahahaha.

Everbody knows old Subaru wagons are the best birth control devices. Ever.

Good commercial though.

Here's another....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0N-GEyIf4s

I remember this one from when I was "Jimmy's" age.

 

My Vista Cruiser was built in Arlington Texas in January 1977. Then arrives in Tucson in Feb 1977 and sold the same month. Its been an Az car its whole life and never registered more than 100 miles from the original dealership.

So its 934 miles from it birthplace.

 

My Waygun was ordered and built in Windsor,Ontario June 1973.
Sold new,July 1973, 4 hours away in Toronto at Paul Willison's at Broadview and Danforth streets-just around the corner where the car lived at Dearbourne Ave.
(Willison's are still in business,but at a different location)
http://willisonchrysler-px.rtrk.ca/index.htm

Both the original and second owners were neighbours on the very same street.
8 Dearbourne and 22 Dearbourne,respectively.
They shared the same alley way where the car was garaged sinced new.
The street was designed with no driveways and parking garages were behind the houses in a shared alley way..
For 37 years,the car never left the same street.
In the first pic,behind Waygun is the (late) original owner's red garage where she parked from 1973 to 1997.
Second pic shows the second owner and his green garage where she lived from 1997 until September 2010..
That's just a hundred feet apart.
The original dealer tag is still on the car to this day.
So,now,from my home in Kingston,I am 7 hours away from the car's factory.


She's a keeper.

 

My OCC was custom built by Eel Birds on Rigel 7 billions of years ago, 16.278976 light years door to door.

 

1. welcome to the wagon forum cadet!

2. blue...when did you get the OCC? details?

3. like cadet57 my chevy is one of the rare willow run assembled cars. built in michigan and sent god-knows-where eventually to end up in my driveway.

my Buick (like most B bodies) was built in Arlington Texas, sent to Watson Buick in Indiana Pa ...sold to the original owner whom cared for it until i could buy it.

 

Looks like mine was built in Lakewood, GA along side some Chevys shortly before the factory was taken off line and later demolished.

http://www.gmsalariedretirees.com/GMplantHistory.html


Here's a helpful link:

http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f22/hope-its-made-u-s-98634/index2.html

 

Can anyone beat 11.3 miles? My 1969 Ford Fairlane was built at the Ford Claycomo plant, ordered by Capitol Ford in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was sold new in Santa Fe, then the owner moved to Las Cruces, NM. It was sold to the next owner in El Paso, TX, where I bought it in July of this year and brought it back to its birthplace here in Clay County, MO. What a long, strange trip its been!

 

Welp I guess if we are including Subaru's in this contest then Fords should also be included in the mix LOL. .... 11.3 miles seems to be a winner so far!!

 

Also, the Claycomo Plant is still in operation today. They make the F-150 and the new Transit commercial van will be built there starting in 2013. It's been in operation since 1951, and was never co-owned by the US Government!

 

My Dad worked at the Chevy plant in KC (MO? KA?) in fifty-two and bought a new chevy off the line. I remember a place called Sunbeam Lake where we hung.

 

11.3 is very close to home, indeed. My Buick was purchased new from a dealership same 30 miles from my home and has only been driven by the elderly gentleman who bought it, the woman they sold it to a couple years before I bought it and me. It was actually sold to me by a guy who bought it for his wife, who wasn't interested in it so it set for 8 months without ever being registered so I appear as the 3rd owner, just like my '69 Pontiac. That's kinda cool.

 

Not sure where Sunbeam lake is around here - I googled it and couldn't find anything. The Kansas City area has a long history of making cars. The Claycomo plan has been recognized as the plant that has made the most cars of all assembly plants (and counting!). The Fairfax assembly plant (GM) has also been around for a long time (1951 or 52).

 

My '78 Fairmont is from Kansas City, about 900 miles away.
Appropriate since I'm a bit of a bluesman.

 

According to my VIN my Electra was built in Lakewood GA, that's about 2600 miles from its current location in a lock-up in Belize City, Belize.
The old man i bought it from said it had been driven down in the late nineties and served as his taxi until 06 when he couldn't afford to run it any longer. I pulled it out from under a mango tree in 09.

I forgot to add that it came from Ewing of Dallas, and still has the dealer name on the tailgate.