Figured I might as well start a thread on the wagon I got last spring. Buddy of my CEO was selling it. I had been seeing it around town since 2019 and admiring it. The previous fall I was out with my Cutlass Cruiser and got to park next to it and take some pics. The good: Straight body, zero rust even on bottom. That alone is worth the $900 I paid. Starts and runs and drives. 50k and feels like it, engine feels super tight still. The bad: Tires are shot. Brakes are soft. Hard to get started, and starts stumbling and smelling overly rich as it warms up. Radiator leaks. Drivers door lock doesn’t work (probably linkage). Dimmer switch hanging loose and actuator rod missing. Small ding in drivers side rear door. Paint is all intact but has a lot of dirt scratches, mainly on hood. With the right method they should clean up. Last year I didn’t get to do anything but get the battery charged up good, and run my AutoXray scanner on it. Wasn’t anything definitive, but I’ll check everything out in detail once winter is over. This summer I wanna get it fixed up good. Maybe be ready for next year’s 80s show. One thing I wanna do is put more Euro into the Eurosport. I already got some export taillights with amber turn signals, and some lights to use for side repeaters, and wire the sidemarkers to flash in sync. Thinking of duplicating the front turn signals into the rear bumper to use as rear fog lights. When the weather improves I’ll check out the junkyard, for those and the dimmer switch rod. Also plan to do the same thing I did to my Celebrity sedan dash back in 2003. Create a factory looking oil pressure gauge and tach. Celebrity full gauge package did not include oil pressure. That’s kinda important. I made an analog tach for my sedan right after the oil gauge, but I may use the bargraph tach I have from a Century cluster if it even works after 15-20 years of sitting in my garage. The Celebrity offered the same bargraph tach but pretty rare and only up to 1988.
