Got my Baby Back!

I am a huge car nut and have posted a ton about this car and my other wagons and projects on here. I am very active on the GM Longroof Forum, but love all wagons and enjoy being here too. Wagon folks are just GOOD folks!

Here is my original post when I joined this great forum. http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13050

As for selling the car, I have a great friend that is also a car nut, and he and I have bought and sold each other cars for years now. Well just over two years ago I was having some financial issues and in a fit a lunacy posted the wagon for sale. Well my friend Rich claimed it and bought it within an hour of me posting it! Ha! I sold it to him with his promise that I could buy it back if he ever decided to sell it. They live about 90-miles from me

I regretted selling it the moment I handed over the title, and had a lump in my throat when it left my driveway, but it paid the bills and had to be done. Rich and his great wife Robbi babied the car while they had it. It was always garaged, and they used it for cruising, some road trips, and they took it to the Florida Mecum Auctions last year.

Last year I bought a gorgeous 1992 Olds Custom Cruiser with super-low miles. I really liked it, and still think the Olds styling is so SMOOTH, the grill is a knockout, and I liked the blue interior, but the TBI 350 was just not an LT1, and after owning the Olds a while, I missed the wood too! The wood is half the joke, and the Roadmaster just got a lot more thumbs-up and smiles/waves than the Olds. So the Olds was sold last summer when another Roadmaster wagon came along...but sadly that deal fell through, and I've been wagonless every since. A terrible way to be!

So that's the story. It took me 25-months, but I have my favorite wagon back. I'll sell a kidney next time I need money. Hahahaha!

-Mike

 

NO I sure don't!

Ha!

 

Well you were nice about it. Durn!
I know how you feel about YOUR wagon. During a temporary mental misjudgement I traded our 1955 Chevy wagon 150 miles from home at the large Daytona Turkey Run car event to a fellow car club member right here in town. Actually we are 10 mile north of town. Saw it many weekends at our local car shows and cruise nites.
Skipping all of the gory details of how I ended up with one of the worse custom pink 1950 Ford coupes, I tried from day one to buy my wagon back.I could have said no but shook on it. Still he lied, as we found out later. It may have been pink but was a big lemon!
Memory fails but after putting money down on an original 56 Chevy hardtop at another car show, the owner of the 55 Chevy was also there with MY Chevy. This was over two years later.
This was the first time I didn't whine and try to buy it back. When I explained I just bought that 56 over yonder, he offered the wagon at half what he kept quoting me. What it was really worth. I canceled the deal on the 56 and the guy was very understanding. Had MY wagon delivered back to MY house and will never sell it again.
It's far from a great show car and needs lots of work. In fact I had to replace the 307 engine and powerglide tranny, plus many things. It had a BW 4-speed and hot 350 when I traded. Still it's My wagon.
We do get attached to these material things!
Bt if you ever decide to sell let me know. Your Roady would love the Gulf coast of Florida.

 

Good story, and NO.



-Mike

 

Mike,
I'm REALLY glad to see you got it back........was wondering if that deal would really come true..........now, GO CLEAN UP YOUR CAR! LOL.

 

NO??????? YOU SURE?
By the way that flat bed trailer looks exactly like mine. Blown tire and all. Ours blew on the other side rear. Been on it since 1994 when we moved to Florida. Had it sitting up on jackstands and when son hauled a race car the old tire blew.

 

So after a rainy weekend and rain yesterday I finally gave up. I got home from work last night and walked by my still-rainy-roadtrip-dirty wagon in the garage...had dinner, and was about to shower for the evening, but the wagon sitting dirty in the garage was just killing me...so instead of a shower I put on a workshirt and went into the garage and turned on the stereo.

The kids laughed at me, but I pulled the wagon into the driveway, and in the rain, totally washed it. Actually I did more than wash it, I worked on it solid from 7pm-12:30am. Pulled out the stepladder and slid the roof-rack-rail back and hand-washed it from top-to-bottom. Then scrubbed the wheels and tires, and used Brillo pads on the exhaust tips (they glow again), and layed in the water and scrubbed the lower-front-bumper, which is now really white again.

Then I backed the car into the garage and dried it off, put tire shine on the tires, and touched up some paint chips on the front of the hood, THEN pulled out the bug and tar removed and in soaking-wet clothes layed on the ground and cleaned the entire lower body, and then waxed the lower body below the wood.

Next I replaced the center plasti-chrome trim on the front bumper where it was peeling a bit above the license plate area (still had some in my stash from the last time I did this years ago), and next pulled out the polishing compound and scrubbed the rear bumper and tail lights, which were both a bit dull and faded, followed by wax, now they glow too.

After that I took all the floor mats out and fired up the shop vac, and totally vaccumed the interior, then wiped the seats, door panels, dash, and plastics down with a damp towel, and cleaned all the windows....and then cleaned all the inner and outer door jams... ..What can I say...they were dusty! Ha! I noticed a few of the door-pull straps on the door panels were loose, so tightened them up, and then put the clean floor mats back in.

I litterally threw in the towel at 12:30am and made myself stop. I still need to wax the upper body above the wood, and I want to treat the leather and then do a big clean and detail under the hood to make it cruise-night-showoff-ready, but MAN it looked pretty in the garage this morning!!

....no pics until it's fully waxed..ha!

Having fun down here!

-Mike

 

Yes it was ZERO fun when that happened.

Oh and a white Texas wagon DID pop up. Needs some trim-tape and a back seat, but looks like a good start for only $1800!

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/4466368430.html

 

Welcome back Mike, look forward to seeing your post and pictures of your wagon!

 

That wagon looks really decent for the asking price. Plus new tires!
I'd bet you could get it looking as good as new in a few hours or so.
You wore me out at the "washed it" part!

 

I suppose that back seat is now the shop chair in the garage of that nice house behind the wagon. Nice nice house I should say.

So, Mike, I'm a bit worried about you. You are doing all the detailing you'd of been doing spread over the two years your car was AWOL in a matter of days. You are setting a bad example for the kidlets. They are going to think they will be required to have that same level of intensity when they get a car. Oh, wait a minute, I get it, you are training them to take over for you when you are too old to handle the wagon yourself. Good move

 

So, you wanna do my rig next?