Hello Wagoneers! Found your site and plan to loiter and learn what I can with the eventual goal of getting an early seventies GM A-body to restore.Nothing more specific at this point,just formulating ideas. Presently, we have two minivans, an Odyssey and a Sienna,both very nice cars. wagons that I have owned and loved in the past,in order: '79 Caprice Estate,lovely car, just bulletproof,ran and ran '78 Buick estate, this was strictly a one-night-stand. just got her to haul the dogs around,rough paint,fair interior. Had her a couple years.I'll admit..I used her...I feel so cheap '84 Olds,lovely cherry car I got from a family member.Tranny crashed. Then the replacement crashed. I had to let her go. '89 Camry wgn,perhaps the nicest car I've ever owned.Called her Cammy.Still miss her. '04 Volvo Cross country, very nice when it ran. I believe my mechanic enjoyed it. He saw more of it than I did.
to the wagon train, frodad. You had some nice stuff....good luck finding the wagon of your dreams! Good intro, by the way.
Wagons are so cool.. What else can carry a baseball team and beer to the game!! I hope you get a nice wagon. A-body..... I recommend the Tempest!!!
Welcome aboard. Our Wagonmaster owns a newer Volvo. I looked at the P1800 back in 1968 and was impressed. Then a neighbour who had a 245 and that looked and ran like a champ, but after that I heard lots of folks complaining about reliability. Don't know when Ford took them over, but I'll bet that had an impact on engineering. Volvo built their cars and powerplants to work harmoniously. Ford built them to be standardized across brands and models. Good for Ford restorers, bad for hard-driving Volvo consumers. I think the North American Obsoloscence philosophy took over and Volvo took a hit.
I still like that P1800, Norm, and would love to have a nice one. That's another car that people are now "doctoring" and putting on ebay for big bucks. Have to watch for rust but I LOVE that body style and that little 4 banger has some snort with the stick and OD.
If you ever want to get serious about them, Quebec had a craze for P1800s. Cars from smaller towns would be a good catch. I was in the Army back then, and the dealer told me they were hard to find in Ontario, because Quebeckers were scooping them up. His showroom model was all he ever got. None in the lot. People would order and wait 6 months to get one.
I was looking for one for awhile. Seems they are really rough or really nice. The rough ones were next to shot and the nice ones were big bucks. I don't want an Ontario car.
Tempest, when I was a kid ( I'm 54), went with my Dad to look at a new Tempest,the little one with the half-an-eight.Very nice. He almost bought it, but it was hard to wrap one's mind around a smaller car at that time and he ended up with a '64 Bel-Air 4-door.My boss at my first job had a new Volvo P1800ES.Very nice.My job after that was the one that hooked me on cars.Worked as a parts runner at a Datsun/Bricklin dealership. We got EVERTHING in trade on the new "Z'''s. I got to drive 'em all. E-types, Spits, GT-6's, GTV's, Europas,we even got an Iso Grifo in trade.Thus, my other passion...I've had four Z's. Now, if they'd only made a Z wagon...
