The Wagon is home

**Rocket Power** · 09-25-2005, 09:18 PM

This thing is clean. Needs the car-bark removed,headliner fixed, front bumper replaced (bent) and the column repaired, but man is it loaded. Power everything INCLUDING power rear vent windows. We just got home a little while ago and had it running in about 10 min with a new battery and some gas.

Now I need to throw some wheels on it and the exhaust .

**Burgandy85SS** · 09-25-2005, 09:38 PM

Cool glad to hear its home. What kind of wheels are you putting on it?

**Rocket Power** · 09-25-2005, 10:07 PM

Probably just some Olds Rallys for right now, better than 3 wire caps

I also have some aluminum slots and some American Racing tailgunners but I think the slots are a bit too 70's and I don't know how the tailgunners would look on it.

**PB86MCSS** · 09-25-2005, 10:29 PM

Glad it is going well with it. Sounds like you won't have much invested for a neato rust free daily g-body, can't argue that

. I'm weird enough that I'd be interested in checking it out sometime

.

**Yooformula** · 09-25-2005, 11:28 PM

Nice! Get any pics yet?

**Rocket Power** · 09-25-2005, 11:43 PM

No pics yet, we got it off the trailer spent 10 minutes getting it started and then it started downpouring.

The guy I got it from was a SUPER nice guy too. Me, my buddy and my wife spent a little while shooting the breeze with him.
Oh and it has an aluminum hood too.

**Rocket Power** · 09-25-2005, 11:58 PM

Oh yeah, I'll be putting my Pypes X-pipe and Race Pro muffs on it too.

**PB86MCSS** · 09-26-2005, 12:18 AM

So what are the plans for it? Daily, or keep it salt free and make a cruiser out of it

.

**jbiscuit** · 09-26-2005, 11:46 AM

big block olds motor going into it?

**Rocket Power** · 09-26-2005, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by PB86MCSS

So what are the plans for it? Daily, or keep it salt free and make a cruiser out of it

.

Well the original plan was to make it the daily. BTW it fired right up again today , hee hee hee [/giddy little school girl]
But on the way home me and my buddy were talking, he said I should get a winter beater because it's so clean or at least have it undercoated. I don't know what I am gonna do now, I don't want it to rot, but I did buy it to drive. Right now I am leaning towards driving it and just washing it all the time, aand hoping one winter won't kill it , then getting a beater next year. Unless I come across a super cheap Escort or something.

**Rocket Power** · 09-26-2005, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by yellow wagon

big block olds motor going into it?

I have learned to never say never.

But I don't plan on it right now.

**PB86MCSS** · 09-26-2005, 10:18 PM

I'd say get a winter beater too

. Too clean to get all salted and rotted out, drive it daily spring through fall. I initially got my LS with the plan to daily it too, but its too clean to see get rusted up.

**Rocket Power** · 09-28-2005, 05:45 PM

Well we just bought a truck last night to take the place of the blue Eighty Eight, so I don't think I'll have extra scratch to buy a beater. I wonder if I get it undercoated and wash it every week if it would be ok this winter.

**Memphis** · 09-28-2005, 08:08 PM

I'm sure I could hook you up with a nice winter beater!!

**PB86MCSS** · 09-28-2005, 08:11 PM

Hook me up too

. Partial trade of the GTA's for a beater? Cav prefered

.

I'd think one winter the thing will survive if you keep it up, but I'd sure feel guilty driving an older rust free car through salt

.

**Burgandy85SS** · 09-28-2005, 09:29 PM

I agree get a beater for winter, couple hundered dollar car just for a few months.

**Rocket Power** · 09-29-2005, 10:55 AM

Yeah at max it would see just this winter, The thing is I made a deal to downsize the fleet so I could get this one.

So adding a beater wouldn't bring the car count down. And I am running out of room here.

**PB86MCSS** · 09-29-2005, 10:50 PM

Get any of the wagon yet?

**Rocket Power** · 09-30-2005, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by PB86MCSS

Get any of the wagon yet?

I am waiting till I put some wheels on it

Black steelies with bad woodgrain don't make it look good, but if it has decent wheels to set off the bad woodgrain, then you have something

**Rocket Power** · 10-02-2005, 04:47 PM

All right I took some pics today. I have been sick so I haven't put wheels on it, so just use your imagination and pretend I have some 17's up on it.

I was feeling a bit better so I started to heat gun off the woodgrain till my fingers got sore. The paint under the wood on the fender is so thin in spot you can see primer

and they shot some brown around the gas door

But the paint on the rest so far is very nice, you'll probably see some of the dirt that came from under the chrome trim too

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