anybody seen my wagon?

hi all!!!!!

I have come to the conclusion, after being without TiKi for 4 years..selling her was my biggest mistake. I can't bring myself to build another, but i would buy her back given the opportunity. At this point, i would be happy knowing that she is in a loving home. according to the carfax that my buddy ran over the summer, she is registered in ohio somewhere.

 

Post up another pic of her Ian, so the new kids can have a look. (more eyes out there, the better)

(And if I had been smarter, you would already know where it is.........my garage!)


Edit:
I found a small version....


Another, (at wagon fest?)

 

I thought I remember seeing it for sale in Indiana or Ohio for a long time at some ridiculous price (like $10k?). I recall the smoothie wheels, but I don't remember when or on what site it was.

 

Keep looking and putting out offers. Some dummy traded my 1955 Chevy wagon for a 1949 Ford piece of crap once. It took years to buy the wagon back and I knew where it was. The painful part was I often saw it at our local cruise nites and other Florida car events.
It was sort of for sale with one of those "It's gold" prices because he knew I wanted it.
While at the same car show years later I bought an original decent 1956 Chevy. As I walked past MY '55 the owner asked if I still wanted it. I said no, pointing at what I'd just paid money down on. At that time the "Gold" melted on my '55 wagon and I got a deal I couldn't refuse.
With luck I was able to cancel the other deal and even got my deposit back.
So never give up!

 

Wow, cool story Modelt1!

 

That picture is the fairgrounds at Carlisle. Probably the Carlisle GM show.

 

Correct. I took 2nd place for full size buick stock class.

 

Some of the defining mods done to her were clear h.i.d. headlights, and bucket seat/floor shift conversion.

 

Oh gawd... you sold that thing even though it has a custom hood ornament?! Sorry man. What a cool car. This just fuels my "never sell your vehicles!!!" Theory. I'm going to show this to my wife to justify my vehicular hoarding syndrome. If it ever graces the city of Nashville, Tennessee I will see it. Good luck

 

Good luck with your search Ian!

 

Whaaaaaaaaaa

Never ever sell or trade one of your favorite toys! It took me years to finally get my wagon back and it had a rough several years even though the other owner was a car guy and took it to many shows. We were friends and belonged to the same car club in the same small town. What could go wrong?
He was a car "show" guy but knew little about how to maintain or fix a car. Right off he pulled the dual point distributor for some reason then didn't fully drop it back in. As any GM owner knows the distributor drives the oil pump!
I got the car back without the BW 4-speed but a sick Powerglide and 307 combo out of another Nova he had. His son couldn't drive a stick so the tranny was removed along with the new clutch, pressure plate, all rubber boots, linkage, etc. The Powerglide linkage wasn't even hooked up right. It started out in Drive. He had the wagon pin striped and clear coated with fine metalflake over my nice paint job. The windows were all tinted so dark it was difficult to see out in the sunshine.
Still I got MY car back!

I spent a wad of money and time to get the pink '49 Ford "show car" dependable. He almost always got trophies in his class. It had a 302 Ford using a T-Bird subframe and MMII steering. It was sagging where it met the '49 Ford frame. The tiny MMII radiator was mounted on a 'wood' 2X4 cross member and a tiny transmission cooler fan cooled the engine... Sort of!
After driving it a few years I traded it for a 1941 Ford even up. A few months later the '49 Ford burned to the ground because of more bad wiring. Gallons of Bondo burns fast like fibreglas.
I'd replaced much telephone wire used for gauges, 3 or 4 different gauges sizes and colors for every few feet of other wire and nearly burned the car up when a small wire powering a rear power antennae shorted against the trunk mounted battery.
Who knows what's under shiny pink paint? I slowly found out as I worked on the car.

Find your wagon Ian and hang on tight!

 

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where are you Tiki?

Good luck Ian I hope she finds her way back to you.

 

I echo ModelT1's advice. After selling my clamshell a few years ago (to a well known collector and forum member), I had seller's remorse. Unlike my other "toys", I was rather emotionally attached to that car. I even wrote to him asking for rights of first refusal if he ever decided to sell it. Recently, I learned he sold it without contacting me first. Perhaps he had his reasons, perhaps it was for the better, who knows. No hard feelings. Just sharing to underscore the aforementioned advice.

 

Our old cars, or other toys, are difficult sometimes to make others understand our special feelings. It's not like a wife or a dog, it's much different. We can always find another dog!
For instance I've had several cars nicer, worth more, and even more fun to drive than my old Chevy station wagon. I've spent way more time and money on old Model T's and A's.
I think to me it's because our adopted son began helping on the station wagon when he was only 1 1/2 and actually spent more time on it than I later on. I've never had a family car handed down or even kept most very long. But I knew when I traded the wagon I'd regret it.
Somehow my son, my wife, and I felt we needed that PINK '49 Ford because it also held dreams of owning a car like it since my youth. Painting it was in my immediate plans but that color sort of grew on us. We actually loved that car too after getting it looking and driving dependably.
But our '55 Chevy wagon is part of our family. Now I wonder and worry what will become of it now that the adopted son is in Florida and the other adult kids would rather have an SUV.

 

I'd agree with almost all of that, except the dog comment. My dogs ARE my kids (I don't have any human kids). I love them beyond what words can say. But you're right about the connection we have with our cars...especially the part about how that's difficult to convey to others. I am the only person in my whole family with this "car gene"; even my other half doesn't really get it lol.