What have you done to your wagon lately? (Let's keep the thread going!)

My wagon had the wipers go dead.
Might be the switch or the motor or a wiring issue.
Going to head over to StorminNorman's to pick up some parts.
It sure is nice to have little stash of spare parts.

 

Knowing Normy...he has 2 or 3 of everything!

 

Hope you have better luck than I am with the blue wagon, nobody has yet to figure out WTF is wrong with my wipers......

 

Tonight i took the mighty one for a spin on the town, washed it and cleaned it up a little....

 

Yup I did she's fixed.
It seemed to be the motor.
Had to chip all the ice out of the cowl cover to get things apart.

 

And you want to put china brand bling bling wheels on that stylin wagon......you young kids....in my italian voice...Us a mata yoo?

Cool....guess if I had ice to chisel off my problems would be solved:confused:

 

No, no, no Tedy.. No supersize blingwheels on my car.. I just want some clean -70ies style magwheels at a good price. 15"x8 or 7, with a lot of offset and skinny tires.. Wont go down the 20" swamp.. Not with this car!

 

No, had to chip everything apart so I could swap the motor out.
My brilliant idea for the day was to use some lock de-icer on the heads of the screws on the cowl.

 

HOW skinny a tire are you talking here? And why? You have the nicest of the 1970s wheels on the car already! Those Buick road wheels, which are similar to the Magnum 500, are a great wheel. I'm going to be looking for a set, to add Mercury centres to, for Bertha come the spring. With a nice set of H rated white wall tires, she'll be doing great. Skinny tires on a car that size are just not safe. 225/75R15 is about as small as you can go with any hope of having the weight rating. 235 or even 255 tires to fit and look great on these big old boats! Wider is much better when the road decides to turn too.

 

Skinny tires are a lot safer in, and on that snow he's drving on.

 

I agree that the wheels 2low has on the car are stellar wheels. Not to mention, they are Buick wheels. However, 2low lives in snow country and skinny tires are better for cutting though those road conditions.

 

Thanks everybody! I love those wheels too! You cant see it on the pics, but they are in terrible shape.. I need them to be rechromed, or to buff them at least once a week not to be all brownish and ugly. Second is that i would love som more offset on these, just to make the car look more aggresive...

- Third is; And it is important.. I dont have the power so i will need beefy rears, nor the intention of streetracing. Skinny tires are:
1. Better looking. (imo)
2. Better both in snow and rain.
3. Lower, so i wont have to re-cut the suspension once again
4. Most important of all; Skinnys are safer and easyer to drift with.....

Imagine The killerwhale going sideways in the roundabouts, with the 3" unmuffled exhaust letting out 6000rpm and all that thick white smoke coming from the rear
I am thinking of going 215/75-15 all around, with skinny white stripe..

 

I run winter studded 225/75/15 on the Caprice and they are great in snow.
Threw an 80lb flat steel plate in the trunk, and full of gas she's like a tank.

 

Last time i was living up north i had a set of 225/70 - 205/70 studded set on it, two extra batterys and the airride equippment in the trunk, and nothing could stop it.. This year the government have decided that they will try salt on the roads, so i dont even bother to have any winters for my car, i wont destroy the cars exterior, and wont risk crash it due to the slippery conditions the salt brings..

 

Turbobill: Believe me, I know from driving in snow. We are, today, cleaning up after an 18 inch snowfall. I have driven through much, much worse than that. Unfortunately, Bertha is on the wrong size snow tires. I was given a bum steer on the size conversion when I bought them. I'm running a set of Goodyear Nordic winter tires in a 235/75R15. Not exactly a small tire. She plows through everything just fine and dandy. I should have 235/70s on her and that is what I will get for summer, in an H rated white wall from Diamond Back.

If you are looking for winter grip on that big car, and you cannot find the Goodyear Nordic, there are two European tires that are able to get you through as much snow and ice as you can imagine being on the road for: The Nokian Haakapilliitta or the Gislaved NordFrost. I've had both. A full metre of snow did not stop me. For you Americans, a metre of snow is 39 inches and yes, I have plowed through that in a rear wheel drive car using these tires. For winter, I use plain, ordinary steel wheels and put wheel covers on. Not fancy, maybe, but the do the job and don't get wrecked by the salt on the roads that they use here.