Since I've made it into a serious race car, our Big Green Wagon doesn't have an engine, carpet, headliner or seats to get ruined or partied on by rats in the off season. It can be washed and put back into service in an afternoon when racing season begins again. It's the P.O.S. four doors with lots of serviceable soft parts that are the killer. If you leave one outside for too many seasons the seats might be beyond salvation but where the heck are you going to put them? It's so easy to fill a shop of any kind up with these type of space hogs. Then all you can do in the shop is look at (and/or trip over) old stinky junk. I have several wagons and a van that I use for storage but it's an imperfect solution.
Some cars will never come inside for any reason and I have some real pieces of crap that any normal person would call "yard trash" but parts cars are an absolute necessity for what I do. A perfect example would be the '64 Savoy's parts car, an old government wagon that we got for free a few years ago that's so funky it has no name. Damn if that thing hasn't been a gold mine of wagon only parts (not to mention some handsome fall foliage). Another beautiful nugget is "Dennis", the Belvedere's dilapidated parts car. We bought it years ago for $900. All we needed off it at the time was the back bumper (a wagon only piece). The price felt really steep at the time but he's paid for himself over and over again since then. The only problem is we have to keep him out of sight of the wife! Junkers like these just have to be pushed around once in a while before they get lost in the stickers. That old joke about mowing the lawn and finding a car hits very close to home around here.
Cool Stuff Department: If you know us, you know that we're big block people but I couldn't resist showing you this cool piece that a friend brought by to show us the other day. It's an Edelbrock D64, the original intake for a 1965 "D" Dart with a 273! If you ordered the right options this intake would come in the trunk along with a set of Hooker headers and a Racer Brown cam. 1965 must have been a heck of a year for Mopar drag racers, even those who couldn't afford the Hemi.
Whaddaya Think? Click here to write a comment! Close this box
