quasi Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 02:16AM
Don’t laugh, it’s paid for, didn’t cost much when I bought it five years
ago with low mileage on the odometer, and has more than earned it’s keep,
especially in the aftermath of hurricane Charley when I had to haul all my tools
and pull my trailer everywhere. I use it like a truck so it truly is a truckster
- and it’s only 28 years old.
woberto Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 02:43AM
Yeah yeah yeah, what's under the hood old man?
quasi Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 02:47AM
5 litre V8 with a 2 barrel carb. Has enough power to get the job done but still
gets reasonable fuel mileage, at least when it's not lugging that trailer
around.
FrostedApe Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 05:44AM
It's the fake paneling that really sets the whole thing off. My parents had
one, but I was just a kid so I don't remember exactly what it was. It was when
Dad was on his 20-year "GM-Only" kick, but that's as much as I can
narrow it down. Early 70's. It had over 100k when he traded it in.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 06:27AM
Mom and Dad hauled all of us around in an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser Wagon, late
1960's vintage if I recall correctly. I thought the skylights were pretty cool.
woberto Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 07:31AM
Options were limited in Australia when it came to wagons.
The Kingswood was our family car, similar to this one.
Soon after came similar crysler & ford wagons.
quasi Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 12:55PM
I didn't set out to do it but over the past 30 years or so I somehow managed to
have had three wagons with that fake wood paneling which I really don't care
for. It just worked out that way. At least my friends all know it's me when they
see me drivin' down the road in something fairly unique. My first and favorite
"woody" wagon was an International, a binder thank God, which I bought
in 1978. It was five years old and as I recall my payments were $49 a month.
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Oh yeah, my last car was a minivan which I really loved and miss. So sue me. It
was a Mercury Villager which is actually a Nissan Quest and had 230k miles on it
when I sold it.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: July 07, 2009 01:49PM
These days I'm herdin along an 05 Ford Freestar minivan that my Mom had bought
to deliver mail with. With big slider doors on both sides and a rear lifting
back door this thing is the easiest vehicle I've ever seen for loading and
unloading machine parts, tools, groceries etc. and even manages a decent 20mpg
while doin it. It came with a set of shelves installed along each side in the
back over the rear wheel wells. Though I've removed one set. I left the one on
the drivers side where I carry spare fluids, gloves, a roll of shop towels and
all manner of other lil stuff that comes in handy, my aluminum floor jack, a
nice lil Husky tool set and a small 110v air compressor, all of which has come
in handy from time to time.
My lil Mitsu Mirage is sittin out in front of the shop awaiting duty when gas
starts its next "spiraling into the stratosphere" climb again
