Woe is Me!

well..if shes that nice...yup...id say find a bucket one for cheap and swap it all over...lotta work...but...at least youve got your car still

to the land of Nosense

 

FORD Takeout

It's truly a miracle of our times...Takeout. Ordered Ford takeout and 4 days later there's a knock at the door and the 1991 Country Squire replacement for my '89 colony park is sitting on a trailer in the driveway. I'll be parting out the '89 unless someone wants to try to replace the rusted out frame. It's still drivable, though not in PA.

 

Still a full frame vehicle. In fact the Crown Vic/Grand Marquis is still built using very similar full frame undercarriage today.

 

Do tell.........us about the new '91 replacement and how that come about.

 

I have the forum to thank for all the (33) leads. So many, I was able to rule out rust belt cars, cars over 1000 miles away, cars without option packages, cars over $2000, parts cars and so on. Was left with 9 within a 4 hour drive. But one had a big landscaper's trailer and would deliver from Southern Delaware, a 3 and 1/2 hour drive. Truly though, the one I really wanted was sold in Nebraska for $10,500. But this one has funk appeal...the very last model/last year of the American station wagon.

 

91? Last year for Ford. Not the last year for the American wagon. And they are nice cars for sure.

 

last full size (?) American station wagon (land yacht)

 

Probably the Roadies and Chevies.

 

Yup...Buick & Chevy...1996. I have one. The last of the Great American Wagon.

 

A true wagon carries a dozen or more full sheets of drywall or plywood flat on the deck, tailgate up and window closed (48+ in x 96+ in)...Caprice/Roadmaster, might as well count anything with woodgrain.

 

I can cheat and do 6 on the roofrack and 20 in the utility trailer.

 

I don't understand exactly what you are saying, bmininge, but a Roadie or Cappy can stack 4 X 8's to the ceiling and close the rear gate.

 

See your floor to ceiling stack of... and raise a case of beer in front of the passenger seat for the building inspector. Then it's neat to watch the load leveler compressor pump up the air shocks. OK, I stand corrected. The last Ford wagon it is.

 

Wow, I never realized that those Roadies and Cappies could load 4X8 sheets.
My Le Mans won't, but then again, it is a "mid-sized" model.

to the forum, bmininge3

 

Yup, they can, Steve. My 88 Electra wagon would too but you couldn't get the gate closed...had to leave the gate down because the sheets stuck out about 6 or 8 inches.