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[minderasr]

Love the air horns!  I knew a guy who had an air horn from a train mounted under the hood of his toyota(?) pickup.  Scared the **** out of a lot of people when he blasted that thing.

[Eric]

1 hour ago, DAKA said:

Early "stretch" ?

Yep, something like that. 

[Eric]

 

[DAKA]

33 minutes ago, Eric said:

Would make a nice project fro someone    Hmmm    (Maybe a few years ago for me)

 

[Dukenukem]

On 1/27/2024 at 10:55 PM, TBO said:

While nowhere near the same scale, I visited a number of local "unofficial junkyards" in an official capacity. 

 

Lots of rot, but some pretty interesting finds too. I tried a quick google-fu search before I post this next, but to no success:

 

I ran across a 6 door station wagon (3 full size side opening doors per side). I don't remember the make, but am pretty certain it fell under on GM brand or another. The interesting part is it was a standard production vehicle, but not mass produced. If I had any automotive skills I would have tried to purchase it just for it's uniqueness. It was large, I'm talking early 1970's large station wagon, and large enough for full size doors. IIRC it was a shade of the blah light brown. I want to say there was wood theme panelling down the side, but maybe that's just the Grizwald fan in me. 

-EDIT

 

Found it!

 

Buick Roadmaster

 

 

The Buick Roadmaster is an automobile that was built by Buick from 1936 until 1942, from 1946 until 1958, and then again from 1991 until 1996. Roadmasters produced between 1936 and 1958 were built on Buick's longest non-limousine wheelbase and shared their basic structure with the entry-level Cadillac Series 65, the Buick Limited, and after 1940, the Oldsmobile 98. Between 1946 and 1957 the Roadmaster served as Buick's flagship.

When it was resurrected for the 1991 through 1996 model years, it became the marque's largest vehicle. The Roadmaster sedan, a C-body vehicle over its eight previous generations, shared the B-body for the first time in its history. It was 10 in (254 mm) longer with a 5 in (127 mm) greater wheelbase than the C-body Buick Park Avenue. It was also larger both in wheelbase (2 in (51 mm)) and overall length (6 in (152 mm)) than the K-body Cadillac DeVille.

A Buick Roadmaster Estate station wagon was introduced in 1947 and was manufactured in several generations through 1996.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Roadmaster

Paint’s easy enough to change. Prep is hard and making it look nice, especially with clear coat or the metallic is tricky. Need better than a harbor freight gun for that and a spray booth with good lighting helps. The rest on early GM is easy.  Junkyards are cool places. Sometimes I have seen things there that don’t look like they need parted out or scrapped and some here won’t sell them whole. They make you want to know the story on the car.