Just a picture of the two....the red one had become a parts car since then and has been sold. It looks GREAT in pictures.....but thats where it stops Submitted by: FordWagonNut1979
The red duz go good with the woodgrain.....I had a green 74 with the woodgrain....it sure earned it's keep in dem day's....
That red one looks like one that silverfox would hate to see on EBAY or CL. Looks fine, but gone to oblivion.
I find it hard to believe it was only a parts car..she looks so beautiful.. was the other side damaged? Anyway as nice as it looks I believe you.
Yep, that was my first Country Squire (red 1977). I found her in the country sitting in a field, next to a tree. That was in April 2005. I left my name and number on the windscreen and never thought the owner would ever call me back. Well he did, in October of that year. It stopped running and just parked it, he said. So I looked at it, it had been sitting for three years. It was partly sunk in the ground. I gave him $150 for it and all it was, fuel pump. This is what the wagon looked like when I bought it. It also shows some of the pics of the mild resto, also at college with me, and when I started to part it out. I blew the head gasket in Jan 2007, it wasn't much of a problem other than it was 5 deg, a foot of snow, and I didt have any real tools with me at college. So I sent it out to a garage in Macomb, IL called Dads Garage. Simply put, he screwed me and the wagon over. He put in the gasket the wrong way, blocked the cooling passages, thus cracking the head. I had it towed, 125 miles north where I broke down, back to his shop and went nuts. He replaced the head, however the wagon never ran right again. In May of 2008, is when I graduated college. My bestfriend did me a HUGE favor buy coming down with his 2001-02 F-250 V-10 to tow "Edna" for me. The night before I graduated, we loaded up the wagon on a flat bed trailer and called it good to go. My buddy Jake has trailer towed snowmobiles, tractors, other cars, and loads of other crap over the years, so I was not worried about this 200 mile trip. He got up at 8am, woke me up to tell me hes leaving. About 9am, my phone was vibrating. Looked at it, 13 missed called, all from Jake. I called him up, he pickes up, I ask "whats wrong". He said hes in the hospetal, from a roll over. I get dressed, drive an hour north to the hospetal. I'm a wreck, simply to the fact I almost lost my bestfriend due to him doing me a favor. I arrive, hes sitting there, all in tact, and just with a few bumps and scratchs. Hes alive and well. That feeling alone......good God, never want to go though that again. So his truck, total loss. Flat as a pancake. My wagon, it went for the ride of its life. It never fulled rolled. The damage....twisted frame (two rot holes opened up), body damage, cracked trans, cracked rad, all the rear cargo area plastic panels where damaged beyond repair, and other things that made it a bigger problem. This vid dose not show all the damage..... When I got it, the floor boards where shot, along with the rear lower qrt panels. So when the insurance cut me a check, it made more sence to part this one and buy another one. I sure as heck miss this '77, it ment a lot to me. I spent a ton of time and effort to make this wagon come back to life. How ever that may be, a lot of the '77 is now in my '78. From the hub caps, dash cluster, cruise control, and a few other tid bits.
Like I've said about the pics of my Colony Park,"Cameras can be kind." The last of the truly "big" wagons...Wouldn't mind having one from this age/era.My family had a 74 LTD Brougham,hardtop.When there's more room for suspension parts,you get a better ride...If people think my 77 Aspen and 86 Colony Park are "HUUUUGE!!!", then they need to see them next to one of these,or a 76 Fleetwood Brougham Sedan DeVille.
Our 74 LTD weighed 4,400 pounds,so does our 86 Colony Park.And the LTD came with the more substantial suspension.It was a better handling, smoother rolling car than our wagon.There are times we're more worried we're going to lose our wagon to bad roads,than careless drivers. We would've never been worried about such things in a mid-70's Country Squire or Colony Park.
"I'm givin' my car deep vibrations" And that's a Galaxie 500. No LTD package. A perfect example of what I'm talking about when I say,"More room for suspension parts means a better ride." One would think, using progressive logic,that because my 95 Taurus is newer,and comes with a myriad of "improvements", than that 73 Galaxie 500,it has a better ride... I don't think so !!!
