Mustang wagons

This is a pretty cool thread over on another fourm that I thought some might find interesting.

 

Sorry, the tread was deleated by the other web sight because of being O/T on their fourm, but it did have a lot of pics w/some interesting info.

 

Here's my favorites. It drives the Mustang folks nuts! Also the Muschero!

 

never new they made a mustang wagon

 

They only made a couple of concepts. Ford never marketed one. I think they finally realized the error of their ways with the Cougar wagon of 1977 and 1982. Very poor sellers.

 

Tbird...i kinda like that New Stang wagon...kinda...
but as for that Muschero?...it should be lit on fire

 

Both sharp!

 

yea i like the stang wagon but the el stang o hmmmmm i just aint feelin it,,,,a number of years ago i worked in a hole in the wall bodyshop,,,they were all mustang geeks,,,pretty hardcore,, ok thats well and good i like em too,,,a conversation came up about a mustang wagon ecetera ecetera and me happen to be a modified car kinda guy of course liked it,,, so as the conversation goes on i chime in on liken to have a 65 or 66 coupe,,,,chop the top,, louvered hood,, shaved door handles yada,yada,yada,,,,,boy that went over good ,,,,,,,NOT!! i got a look like i was the mustang anti christ or somethin,,,,,,,needless to say i did,nt fit into the clique very well ,,,besides havin small man syndrome the boss was a pretty ok guy,,,,well not really

 

id so be on that mustang wagon!!!!!

 

Sometimes the purists drive me nuts.
Okay, if the car in question is some handbuilt masterpiece then, yes by all means preserve it as it was intended. Anyone modifying a Duesy or such these days would be destroying a piece of automotive history, especially since these cars mostly had one off bespoke coachwork from the beginning.

Mustangs, Corvettes and the plethora of muscle cars were hastily slapped together "units" built without love and affection by the millions with the only a bottom line as motivation. Kids like me beat the living bejeezus out of 'em back then until they were in pieces. I'll bet my group personally destroyed enough engines to assure not all those "numbers matching" cars out there are really so.
Plenty of us love 'em now for various reasons but they really are nothing special. So pedestrian in fact that my car friends and I have all but quit attending most car shows featuring these cars as they are all so alike it is a bore to view them. All this numbers crap and having the paint drips running the correct way on engine perch mounts because "at the Van Nuys plant they hung them from THIS hole when they were dipped"..arrgh.
You guys want to attend an absolutely awesome show? Try the Pebble Beach Concour or Meadowbrook. It's not the stuffy affair you'd think, the owners are friendy as can be and love to tell you about their cars, not themselves.
A fellow actually gave me a short ride around the field in his Duesenberg at Meadowbrook once. The guys with Z-28s and time-out dolls are too busy scurrying around with signs warning of dire consequences for getting too close to their precious machinery.

 

I agree with you. It's one thing to maintain a car for a very long time. It's another to spend $100,000 restoring the flaws in a manufactured car to include the yellow grease pencil markings on the rear end tranny and under the hood along with the runs and orange peel on the paint.A guy here at work has an original unrestored Hertz GT 350H. He got 97 points at a concours show. He was missing the id tag from the differential and the tranny along with a very small 1/4" tear in the driver's seat that could only be seen if standing on your head looking under the seat. He's since got it up to 99 points by replacing the tags. The car is a beauty but it cannot be enjoyed. He paid $150 for a correct oil breather cap! His retro battery was pretty pricey too. But that's his thing and I can't knock it. That car is truely one of 1,000 and not many remain, especially in original condition.

I too get tired of the Mustang, Camaro, Challenger obsession. They've become a commodity like any other commodity traded all the time. Same with the tri-5 chevys and the like. This is evidenced by the various classic car auctions that are popular in TV now.

 

I agree, I like cars 'cause I like 'em, not 'cause they're going to be worth lots and lots of money. My favorite car of all time is the 1960 Chevrolet full-size line models. They are not very popular in the classic car world, you see lots more of the Tri-Fives, and now the 58 Chevies have really been getting popular,but only if you've got an Impala, so my Delray still isn't worth the big bucks

 

1958 was the first year for the Impala models, right? Before that, the top-of-line model was the Belair?

 

Yeah in 1958 it was actually a Bel-Air Impala. The Impala was only a sub-model trim package that year and became its own model in 1959.