Re-Introduction

My name is Ray and I love wagons.
Well I have been a member for a while but my post count is very small, I got a little busy with stuff.
I am the owner of a 1991 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon.
I am in the U.S. Army, stationed out of Germany my unit is currently in Iraq, but should be back to Germany in a couple of months. My car is no longer in Germany but it was a blast to drive on the autobahn when it was in Germany.
I am looking forward to being reunited with my family and car in Florida where I will prep it for the move to North Carolina.

 

Well, welcome, even though I've read your posts online in the past. I bet that driving that on the autobahn was a BLAST!!

 

Re-Welcome, Ray

I enjoy your informative posts over on ImpallSSforums / wagons.

Marshall

 

I hope everything works out and you are reunited with your family and wagon SOON, Ray.
And, THANKS for your service in protecting our great country and preserving our safety and freedom!! Good luck, soldier.

 

Thanks for the warm re-welcome.

It was a blast to drive the biggest wagon in Germany, too bad I never got my chip re burned as the speed limiter is set to 108 mph and my wagon achieved that easily and had more to give, even with the pathetic 305 under the hood.

I did wound the motor during a major moment of idiotism. I over-revved it while trying to climb a snow/ice covered hill in the winter to the point it spit out a push rod. I fixed the push rod only to be greeted with a main knock. I limped the car around Germany for about 6 months, knowing it would be shipped back to the states in the summer. The car made it until early December, almost a whole year, until it spun a bearing. It did this while I was home on mid tour leave on the night I had just finished adding lowering springs and performance shocks with a couple of members of ISSF.

I have another 305 lined up to go in place of the dead one so that car will survive, my daughter cried when I told her I was thinking about selling it at that point. My wife was even baffled as to why I wanted to get rid of it, but you know how cars can be and how mad you get when they let you down.

I will post pics of it soon, as I am sure the pics that I posted when I first joined are long gone.

Thanks again for the warm welcome guys.
Ray.

 

Ray, rewelcome back! I've been on the Autobahn too in 1994. Too much! I read that they started putting up speedlimits last year. BACK!!

 

Heck if my dad had a roadie and told me he was gonna sell it, I'd probably cry too haha.

 

There are speed limits now but they are only on super curvy or hilly areas and where there are on and off ramps, other then that there are no speed limits still. Even at 105 mph I was still getting passed by VW golfs and SMART cars.

Well she has grown up with it and is becoming quite the car nut herself, she wants a "junky Bug" for us to work on as a project, and she is only 10.
My Dad has a Corvette and I would cry if he ever sold it so I know how she feels.

 

My dad sold ours a week ago and I almost did LOL! It was a 1980 Stingray and I drove it more than anybody did!

 

First off thank you so much for serving. And of course welcome

 

I was on the Autobahn in 88 in an 8X8 hemtt. We were coming up the onramp where for some reason there was an 8 inch Howitzer that broke track. Now we were told no tracks on the AutoBahn but here this guy was. Now this held us up so we had to catch up. It was great to let the 455hp Detroit Diesel open up. Must have had one with a weak govenor as I got it over 60-65. take the govenor off and i bet that big truck would fly.

 

reWelcome reBack reUberwagon....geez...that almost sounds German...well...ok...not really

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