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Anyone close that could take a look?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p5197.m7&item=280861885751&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7751318438058314663&cmd=ViewItem

Thanks!
Creighton

That would be a great rig to show up to my carpool in!!   :biggrin:

Want it to tow my 1964 Serro Scotty 13' camper. Unmolested mid 60's wagons with a big block are hard to find.
Unless there is a thrown rod or locked motor it looks to only need replacement of the usual things to get it to run.

Doubt I will be able to get it. Here is why this one is far better than most.
Hood, air cleaner and all fluid check/fill point caps are still there. No moisture has gotten into the engine.
Factory bolt stay puts are still on the exhaust and valve covers motor has never been apart.
All wiring is still connected to where it is supposed to. No amateur has tried to "fix" this car.
Glass is good which would get spendy quick. Interior has issues but nothing major.

My guess, car was parked running when gas spiked in the 70's (FE 390 gets 12 mpg on a downhill with tailwind) or no longer needed.

Creighton

 
   

Very cool looking wagon....
  TFJ

a real survivor worth being restored to it's former glory!

Great old piece of Detroit iron!  If anybody gets it I am sure that Pat P. can help restore the woodgrain!

Seriously, that car takes me back to my early childhood.  My parents had a 1963 Ford Country Squire wagon.  Black with woody exterior and a red interior--a great looking combination for a station wagon.  My dad loved that car but he said with the big block motor and 4 barrel carb if you mashed the accelerator on the freeway you could almost watch the gas gauge drop!  They don't build them like that anymore.  I was only 4 or 5 years old when we sold it but I will never forget that one!

It looked just like the one in the photo below.  One of many station wagons that we had when I was growing up in a family of 7 kids!

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

So four of you were in the back playing cards with no seatbelts? Those were the days!

we had a Chevy Caprice with the 3rd seat facing back.   Open the rear window a crack and let the exhist fumes flow in.  Good times.

Playing cards or jumping back and forth between the middle and back seats.  I don't know which was worse.  After the Country Squire we had a 66 Impala Station Wagon--white with the woodie exterior and a black interior.  As Kilroy mentioned, the Chevy had a rear facing back seat and there was a gap area between the back of the middle seat and the back of the back seat.  As the smaller kids in the family, we used to fight about who got to sit in that gap area!  :oops: In an accident you would have likely been cut in half sitting there but that was the best seat in the house because you were between the "big" kids in the middle seat and the "little" kids in the back seat!  Interestingly, it was the exact same wagon used in the PBR promotion picture below.  Not sure when PBR ran that promo--based on the CB radio reference I am going to guess the mid 70's!

The 1971 Kingswood Estate (metallic pea green with the woodie exterior and a matching green interior) had what I always thought was the coolest feature ever--apparently GM advertising dept. thought guys with a lot of kid would think it was cool too because they used it in the advertising collateral!  The back door went down and disappeared under the car and the window went up and disappeared into the roof!  As a 11 year old boy, it reminded me of garbage truck compactor! :tounge:  There was only one thing that I thought was cooler in any wagon made and that was the blue windows in the roof of the Oldsmobile Vista Cruisers.  My friend's parents had one like the blue one shown below.  I remember telling my dad that we should get one of those after riding in my friends and he said, "That is a Class B station wagon and it is not big enough for a family our size.  My boy, we need a Class A wagon like the Kingswood Estate!"  Spoken with the pride that only a guy with 7 kids who has to drive a station would have.  The one pictured below is identical to the one we had.  I am sure this is the wagon that they were trying to duplicate when they made the Wagon Queen Family Truckster for "Vacation"! :biggrin: 8) :laugh:

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

The last station wagon we had was 1968 Old Vista Cruiser, with the roof windows and real simulated wood trim. Back them it was styling
thanks Tim, good memories.

Our last wagon was a 1979 Mazda GLC Wagon after a lot of the kids were off to college and beyond.  It was not the best looking car but I appreciated all of that room in the back when I was on dates in high school!  :blush: Nice care but just not the same.

I love how they marketed it alongside the RX-7.  The subliminal message to the guys with families and a budget--"That is the car you want, this is the car you have to buy.  Keep telling yourself it is pretty much the same thing.  Yeah that will work!" 

Okay enough driving down memory lane--back to work!

 :drinking: Tim :drinking: