This would make a great project wagon. If I was looking, I'd be very interested in this one. Price is a bit high. And I don't agree with that "Vibrant, immaculate interior" comment
At least the back seat isn't so bad. I do like that it has power windows and that they actually work. What is kind of tough is the apparent rust-through in the front of the hood on the driver's side (far right in this photo). That means finding a donor car with a good hood. You kind of wonder why the car looks so bad forward of the front doors but not so bad behind that. It's almost like it spent its life backed half-way into a garage.
My 72 Beateor has the same wear on the paint and clearly never had a front end accident/re-paint ever and I wondered the same. Can't remember who but it was that the cab with doors would have been painted on one assembly line while front fenders and hood would be painted elsewhere and thus the non equal fade. Weather or not that's true I'm not sure but it in one way the fade/wear makes sense, to me any way... different paint batch and or , not the same coverage while being painted..? I was a tin basher here for over 25 years and worked with a lot of pre-painted coil and 4'x10' flat stock sheets. Every pallet or coil that came in, lets use dark brown as a example had a batch number attached. On some larger exterior jobs we had no choice but to use 2 different batch numbers, of the came colour. When your done, everything looks great, yet today I still drive by work I did 10+ years ago and the fading makes it look like 2 different colours. I'd bet in another 10 years the paint on some will look just like the front of that wagon compared to the rear.
Another possibility is that the car has been in a front-end accident. Perhaps new sheetmetal was used, or the original repaired but not repainted correctly, and thus it aged at a different rate than the factory metal/paint job. On a car I had once, a dealer-repaired rear fender rusted where the original untouched fender on the other side did not rust.
Found one for me in Cincy I was wondering about the paint - one can see it here too. I am purchasing this one in about t week! The Crowning Touch- original 2x4 Super Wildcat engine! -cruise -roof rack -pw -pseat
I'm still thinking, if no accident traces can be found that it would be original paint all over, just 2 different paint lines on the factory. This pic although black and white, you can tell these bodies are painted yet the front clip is far from being installed, bodies are not even on a frame yet......... And congrats on the new wagon SW
