Compact Mopar fans, nu/su

time to nut up or shut up, here's a $200 '80 Volare wagon in Indiana. No engine, no transmission, no title, but a straight body, minimal rust, and it's a woodie...

http://terrehaute.craigslist.org/cto/3634852569.html



If I was closer I'd pick it up. Being over 25 years old means getting a title costs a couple hundred bucks to bond it or use Broadway or something, but it's a lot simpler than a newer vehicle or something salvaged.

My plans for this wagon would include an EFI 318 engine and 44RE from a 98-00 Dakota/Durango, dual exhaust, updated 90s stereo with Infinity speakers and amp, redo the interior in red vinyl, repaint the exterior in white, get steelies and paint them red, trim rings and small center caps, and redwood woodgrain, like this Caprice but a finer grain (the color is spot on though):

 

i cringe every ad i see with the word derby in it, so sad. worth 200 bucks just for parts if nothing else, beats smashing it

 

WAY worth the asking price. Lots of good parts. For one, if you have a Volare or Aspen, the inner fenders are something you want. 80 was the only year to have them, and they do save the front fenders from rusting out along the tops. Mind, if the body is as solid as it looks, this could be a great project with the right donor of a power train.

 

Well....it USED to be a woodie.

 

That's what she said!

great place for a new hemi.

 

...until the doc's started issuing little blue pills.

 

How is it considered a compact? Its on a 112" WB ... The big Ford wagons are on a 113-115wb..

 

Telling everybody else to "nut up or shut up" after that statement??
You've already got a plan, grow some of your own and go get it and fix it up yourself.
The best thing to do with that car would be to send it to the boneyard so they can crush it and put it out of it's misery.

 

Doc: That was the SMALLEST of the domestically built Chrysler products when it hit the market in 76. The mid-sized were the size of the Schwag, and the full sized were giant! Road hugging weight ruled!

 

WHOA!!! then these were HUGE!!!

 

Doc, the 77 LTD II and Cougar wagons you see on here were the MID-SIZED models and they have a longer wheel base than the 79 and up Country Squire and Colony Park wagons. Longer by about 3 inches in the wheel base. The BIG wagons are the size of my Bertha, and she weighs a solid 4,800 pounds, and is very nearly 19 feet long. The clam shell wheel bases are about 125 inches long. Somewhere in there, anyway. Yes, cars in the 70s were very large indeed!

 

I need to rethink a couple of things....