1976 Pontiac Grand Safari

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  1. honesthilb

    honesthilb Well-Known Member

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    Some spots look awfully scary.
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    Paraphrasing, "You may never ever, not in a bazillion years find another one like this! Buy it NOW, ......................you fool."
     
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    That is definitely not a $4200 wagon!
     
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    Look how much larger the driver side wheel openings look with the chrome moldings long gone - eaten away.

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    You do? Then why did you start another account?

    The car is rough externally. Looks ok on the inside. No photo of the engine. A $2000 car.
     
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    If all of the windows work, why is the back glass down when the rear tailgate is down?
     
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    Good point! It's difficult to tell for sure because there isn't a good, clear photo of the back end, but it looks like there are ears on the rear keyswitch, which would mean a manual tailgate. There was a safety interlock built into the system on manual tailgate cars to prevent lowering the tailgate if the window wasn't raised a certain amount. (8 inches, or something like that). This was to prevent the possibility of someone raising the tailgate by hand with the window all the way down and crushing their fingers against the bottom edge of the window. If the car really does have a manual tailgate and the rear window is all the way down while the tailgate is down, this suggests a problem with the safety interlock.
     
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    It's definitely a manual tailgate. You can see the ears and the chrome trim "handle" in the middle of it to lift it up. Whenever I see a glide-away wagon with the tail gate lowered and the window fully lowered as well, I presume there's something wrong with the mechanism (usually for the window itself).
     
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    Yes, manual tailgate.

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    You can run the window up 10 inches, drop the gate and run the window back down. Every wagon I have is this way
     
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    People's photos never cease to amaze me. If you are cleaning heavy crud out of the back seat area, why not wait until after you finish and remove the tarp before taking the photo?
     
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    Pretty sure this is one I tried to get on CL. Contacted the seller for more pics and he said no problem. Price was I believe 2500. I had explained to him I was very interested as my car had been totaled by a drunk driver and I was in need of a replacement. He said he would send me pics( was all the way on the opposite side of PA) as I didn't want to drive THAT far cause I knew it had been sitting for a long time. He said I was first in line. Long story short dude saw ad and he had told him he had someone interested so this dude lived close and went and he sold it to him. This ass is trying to double his money on a rustier car lol. I found the dude on FB(with all his derby pics and the seller said he would NOT sell to a derby dude) and was like hey what's the car like.. He said what the condition was and said "Oh were you interested I wouldn't of bought it if I knew that" ROFLMMFAO I knew better as I had spoken to the seller. Dudes a POS! Never did get the additional pics either!
     
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    Yes, almost certain we saw this before from a CL listing. Can't find the thread because "search" on the forum does not currently work.
     
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