Such a Deal!?!?!? "Garage Find" '92 Roadmaster Sedan

The car went to my friends Rich and Robbie out in Fredericksburg, in the Texas Hill Country near Luckenbach (sing along..).

Richard was really happy with the car, and his wife Robbie....tolerates his car obsession much like my wife tolerates mine. Ha!

 

Pics from us delivering this car are in this thread: http://www.stationwagonforums.com/f...s-hill-country-roadmastering-road-trip.46484/

Made a day-trip out of it and took my wagon on the adventure too.

-Mike

 

Good collector cars are hard to find. Good wives are..................................

 

Hey, she puts up with me.... Mostly.

 

Good collector cars are hard to find. Good wives are..................................

I had a lot of answers to complete that sentence but for our own safety I stopped while I was ahead.
After all, Oct 13th will be my wife's 58th anniversary. That's scary enough for a Friday 13th.

 

WOW 58 years! Misty will kill me long before we reach that milestone! Congrats!

 

I used to hide in the garage under a car. When that no longer worked I'd mix up some fiberglass resin.
Now that I can't get up from under a car and the fiberglass makes me dizzy I sweet talk and buy donuts.

 

I just spotted this just after dropping off my niece:



Sorry about the poor pic quality...I snapped it through the windshield.

 

Look familiar! Those hubcaps are somewhat rare too.

 

Too bad. The left side ones were a different design. *mournful trombone* Waaa waaa waaa waaaaaa!

 

And when I saw it on a close drive-by, it was looking like it had hit a few steel posts...cars...trees....

 

It's sad how these cars get abused, and getting harder to find clean and straight ones now.

 

10/15/17 - So you thought the 92 Roadmaster Sedan Refurbishment was DONE? Well nothing is over until I say it's over! I realized after delivering the car that I'd missed something...I'll call it a part of it's "Gran Sport" package that I missed. The 92-93 cars have solid red plastic tail lights, with red reflectors. Well on later 94+ sedans, the tail lights were dressed up with black vertical lines and additional chrome trim edges on the lower reflectors. The black lines especially would go well with thr black bodyside and bumper trim I went with when "GS'ing" this car, so I set out to find a good set of new lights, and yesterday, after hitting two salvage yards, I did!






Cleaning salvage-yard find '96 striped Roady Sedan tail lights.




Polishing and waxing striped 96 Roadmaster Sedan tail lights.




Refurbished 1996 black-striped tail lights done. They glow! Richard Lake check these out! Cleaned, compounded, polished and waxed! I want to put them on now!








SO has anyone tried to enlarge the holes on the innermost sockets? I'm thinking of trying to add 1157's to the inner sockets so all four bulbs light up with the brake lights and blink with the turn signals. I always thought it was kind of cheap that only the outermost lights work with the brakes and signals, with the inner ones just coming on with the headlights.

Hmmm.....

I love projects!

-Mike

 

That might be a good project with LED lighting.

 

Or sequential lights... Hmmm...