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If you had this car, what would you do with it?

Started by C_stripes, June 29, 2008, 11:18:44 PM

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Kevin68N71

#25
June 30, 2008, 09:41:35 PM
I am the absolute wrong guy to ask this question.  I LOVE wagons!

It took me 15 years to find a Pontiac Bonneville Safari, a 1961, now rare as can be.  303 hp 389 engine, essentially the GTO engine.  These wagons could be optioned with buckets, four speeds and three two barrel carbs.

It was the same model my parents had when I was a kid, so its a nostalgia things to.  But how many times have we seen old pics of race cars or trailers towed by a Mopar or other wagon?  Wagons are great, the rest of the world is catching up to what a few folks have known for a while.

Mine is a 389 auto, factory air conditioning!  And for a super heavy wagon, it actually gets up and goes ok!

Now for the Mopar, I agree with some of the things Daytona suggested, but I would go with the Mopar wheels and NOT screw with the hood.  Redo the interior stock, everything stock.  I have no problem with maybe throwing some in a light cam, intake, headers and exhaust, things that could always be unbolted.  Fresh, stock color paint.

Then drive drive drive.  We need to save every wagon we can find that has not been crushed, good ones are hard to find.
Do I have the last, operational Popcar Spacemobile?

bull

#26
July 01, 2008, 05:13:15 AM
I like the old wagons too but I don't think I could justify the time and expense to restore one that far gone. That said, if I did have the extra money and time I would totally customize the interior and modernize everything I could, I'd probably install a new crate Hemi or build up a 340 for it and then I'd paint it a very non-subtle color.

JPL

#27
July 01, 2008, 07:44:51 AM
I'd customize it, go nuts, It's got some great lines.....

TK73

#28
July 01, 2008, 08:01:52 AM
Leave it sitting there and take the Galaxie...
1973 Charger : 440cid - 727 - 8.75/3.55


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      a liberal, oh fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
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rarefish

#29
July 01, 2008, 08:53:50 AM
How about a super stock hemi wagon???

JPL

#30
July 01, 2008, 09:11:50 AM
Quote from: rarefish on July 01, 2008, 08:53:50 AM
How about a super stock hemi wagon???

Where was that pic taken? It looks familiar....

challenger70

#31
July 01, 2008, 12:04:23 PM
Quote from: JPL on July 01, 2008, 09:11:50 AM
Quote from: rarefish on July 01, 2008, 08:53:50 AM
How about a super stock hemi wagon???

Where was that pic taken? It looks familiar....

I would drop a Big Block in it and make a sweet tow rig out of it :2thumbs:
'68 383 A833 QQ1 Charger
'70  440 727 FY1 Challenger

konigcharger

#32
July 01, 2008, 12:22:07 PM
well with the price of steel right now.... :scratchchin:










nah.. id make it into a shed for all my charger parts  :rofl:









If you have no vision or creative spirit, you can always fall back on the way the factory did it.

rarefish

#33
July 01, 2008, 01:28:29 PM
Quote from: JPL on July 01, 2008, 09:11:50 AM
Quote from: rarefish on July 01, 2008, 08:53:50 AM
How about a super stock hemi wagon???

Where was that pic taken? It looks familiar....
In the owners garage, back in around 2001. The wagon was about 90% done when I took the pictures of it.
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