Wagon finds

SAAB oil isn't anything special. Like any other car brand, they always recommend their own products. Any quality mineral oil will suffice. I'd recommend synthetic 2 cycle oil for insecure customers who would otherwise lose sleep.
I've been using the following mineral oil mixed with synthetic for years and never have had unusually excessive wear. Not because synthetic was even in there. This Swiss department store only had this blend and the price was right.
It stinks particularly Hellish, for some reason, to the annoyance of any tailgater. No other oil has ever smelled this bad. Some are even fragrant

 

Nice custom build.
At $14,500, Is This 1988 Mercury Sable Wagon A Good Deal? (jalopnik.com)

 

^^ I HATE HATE HATE these! '89 - '96 Thunderbirds and Cougars, Taurus/Sable wagons and God knows what else.

 

All such graftings are rediculous, almost as bad as mixing an Andy Warhol painting with a Rembrandt

 

EXACTLY!

 

Giving an old vehicle a new drivetrain, that's okay because you are just updating the mechanicals to make driving a better experience, and fits in with "Form Follows Function;" but in doing this work, where you're trying to make something look different, if you don't complete the work, it just looks half-@$$ed, so why start in the first place?

 

Clearly outnumbered here. But I like some of the Thunderbird examples. On those the old and new flow together well in my opinion.

 

We have this in our neighborhood.

 

I'm perfectly fine if people want to customize their car or go full on transformative mod on it to look like something from another era, I just don't think that it's easy to justify the price when it comes time to sell one because it's extremely specific in how it looks and feels, and the quality of the conversion matters a ton when you are not the person who did the work.

And some just look more half-ass than others!

 

I run a castor bean oil in my kx-250 called Super Blendzall. It’s great and smells like .049 gas model airplanes!

 

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something like a Picasso?

 

Yeah, if Picasso (no pun intended) wiped himself with it.