Sad Wagons

While I was out last week I stopped by my favorite JY.

Here's that sad LTD I've been getting interior bits from:
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How about a Zephyr Villager. You don't see these anymore. It looks quite complete: View attachment 3450
A nice looking 67 Country Sedan too:
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Another LTD:
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A Fairmont Squire:
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And just to tempt all you Fox body folks, how about a very nice leather interior just waiting to be picked. Sorry though the back seat is missing. All four door panels and the front seats are pristine, just a little dirty.

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There's plenty of good plastics there too.

 

Oh that tailgate is oh so nice!

 

Sorry Norm, I found out that the latches changed around 82 or 83 and they won't fit your car nor can they be easily modified to the old style latches.

 

I'll bet if you dropped an engine in 80% of what I'm seeing you could drive those cars right out of there. Not like up here in the salt belt where they are rusted to death.

 

Well then, I may just have to get me the tailgate, with the car option attached... A Limited FairStang II

Now don't you wish you could have learned to do telekinesis, grasshopper?

Up here, they'd go for used car prices, and be flogged by every car dealer around.

 

Wow TB, that is the nicest junkyard I've seen in some time!
The cars are so intact and there are models I haven't even seen on the street in years! Capri and Granada? They all seem to be gone here.

I would be in hog heaven going there!

I bet someone with enough determination could get that nice tailgate to work on an early model.

And I notice another similar tailgate in a stack behind it. Incredible!
Wasn't someone here looking for one recently?

Thanks TB for the pics! Wonderful!

David

 

The most unfortunate part is the stacking of the cars. There's many a roof and roof rack that is now useless due to the habit of stacking.

But this yard crushes nothing. So what you see will always be there until someone buys something.

 

Sad wagons indeed, but large of heart in that they're willingly giving of themselves to keep fellow wagons on the road. They are to be commended!

 

Yup.....the stacking is sad, indeed. However! It IS nice to know that they crush NOTHING. Nice to know that the stuff is always there. I don't care for the stacking but I sure would like to get in there someday.

 

Or an expert Buick tailgate guy to consult with.

I'll have to see what the latch difference is. I'll bet its doable. I'm guessing, but the top door frame is probably more rigid than on early Fox wagons.

 

wreckers that stack...give me the willies....but ...as opposed to scrapping...i guess it'l do huh?

wasnt one of the Fairmont guys going nuts trying to find a tailgate???
too early...cant recall who

 

Moi!

Tbird says the tailgate latches, etc. were changed in 1980 and up, so I have to either find a nice baby LTD or figure out how to mod mine, after I find one up here.

 

The fix is BONDO!!!!

 

Hmmm... I'll figure something out. Bondo has no place in high stress areas like tailgate hinges or latches on these unibody wagons.

 

I haven't seen the difference myself. However, I'm told that the early wagons had a hoop style latch at the bottom in the shape of a "U" and the later models have a latch much like a door latch. That's the kind I have. If your hatch has this latch I think all of the later models are the same. Check out the picture. I understand the conversion to the later latch is major sheet metal surgury.

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