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1966 Volvo Amazon Wagon

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metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal
05/31/09

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Mom's first car, verbatim
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Flathead Smith
05/31/09

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Personally I think it should be illegal to crush any car or truck built before 1977. The punishment for doing so would be…umm… death.
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Naturally Exasperated shaves his legs. It's just common courtesy.
05/31/09

@Flathead Smith: by crushing?
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Flathead Smith
05/31/09

@Naturally Exasperated: More of the same, at a higher price.:How about by being crushed in a K-Car?
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MushyHeirloom
05/31/09

@Flathead Smith: I wanna squish you in a K-Car, K-Car, K-Car!
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Novaload
05/30/09

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Well, I try to be philosophical about this. The car was not saved from the crusher, but it was saved from a lunatic who might have taken on a truly hellish project car that never got finished and ended up crushed anyway. And the lunatic was also thereby saved.

Not exactly win-win, but the minimum damage in this sad situation.
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BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
05/30/09

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Noooo.... This is not even a PCH car, and when the restauration is done you have a perfect daily user car.
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rebeldevil
05/30/09

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It genuinely pains me to see a car that looks salvageable sitting in line to be destroyed like this. I know the vehicle will eventually be recycled, but why not spend some more time and effort and recycle it by keeping it road-worthy? If it's a pile of painted-over rust and belching smoke then yes, it's probably too late to save it, but that Volvo looked to be fixable.

Damn shame.
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MushyHeirloom
05/30/09

@rebeldevil: Because it's California, and with the exception of VW Transporters, their idea of "junk" has nothing to do with the condition of the body.
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rebeldevil
05/30/09

@Slurp Fuzzy Homo: Yet another reason to despise California.

You'd never see anything like this in a PA junkyard--if it winds up in a PA salvage yard, it's beyond repair...unless you're insane.

If I win the lottery I'm going to take a car transporter to all these scrap yards in California and start buying up everything salvageable and saving them.
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MushyHeirloom
05/30/09

@rebeldevil: Same here. Even Chevy Monzas and shit. It's coming home.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
05/30/09

@Slurp Fuzzy Homo: I was with ya right up to the whole "Monza" thing.. would you settle for Vega Kammbacks? The boneyard here in town actually has TWO of the fucking things.

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dead_elvis
05/30/09

@Slurp Fuzzy Homo: this idea could be a money maker - or at the very least, a gearhead community service project - for the New England Jalop contingent. I'm in VT, I think you're in NH, and I know there are a few others of us here in the northeast where the DOTs are free & easy with the winter road salt regimen. My '89 240 wagon has a healthy transmission & a square receiver hitch...
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MushyHeirloom
05/31/09

@dead_elvis: And my '89 sedan will have a hitch as soon as I bother to get one. Which could potentially be sooner rather than later.

@Slantsick: now GALVENIZED: Oh, damn. Take 'em both on, you know you want to.

@rebeldevil: And even if it ain't, but it has parts that're hard to find up here - take 'em off, load 'em on.
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MushyHeirloom
05/31/09

@Slurp Fuzzy Homo: Oh, and yes, I'm in southwestern NH.
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bdon
05/30/09

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it is the same color as my welder. I bet they look good together. If that car is going to a crusher, I am running from the east coast butt naked with welder strapped to by back and some visde grips in my pocket, to come home a multi billionare of old cars. Repulsive flunking society. For real. Ponder picking up a car that bent in the middle, rust flying everywhere, lifetime parts in chunks..and still fixing it. The locale of photo is gritesque, I can feel it from here.a biblically satanic village at times. I am going to vomit my granola.
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Novaload
05/30/09

@bdon: If you're going to run butt naked to CA, and yet you have a pocket for your "visde grips"--wait, I don't want to know.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
05/30/09

@Novaload Misses Murilee: Perhaps he learned the secret from Robinson Crusoe.
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jegmpv
05/30/09

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The Crusher is a Cold,Heartless monster.
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Murilee Martin
05/30/09

@jegmpv: How about all the folks who passed on this car for $100 at the auction? Just about every car you see on the yard in a self-service junkyard failed the $100 auction test.
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jegmpv
05/30/09

@Murilee Martin: What a shame,
Thats it... once my kids are grown and out of the house
I'm buying a piece of land in the desert with a nice prefab house and plenty of acreage for rare cars.
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
05/30/09

@jegmpv: Would you mind having at least one neighbor? I don't have any pets.
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MushyHeirloom
05/30/09

@Murilee Martin: Those people should be shot in the kneecaps and then hung by their genitals.

For a hundred bucks, if I lived within 50 miles of the yard, I'd take it on. It'd be better as a Volvo parts shed, even, than as a cube destined to turn into some Korean shitbox.
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MushyHeirloom
05/30/09

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Hope it was picked right down to the rust.
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jduffy13
05/30/09

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Why is it that the thumbnails never show up anymore?

BTW great car. I love 60s cars that look like they're really from the 30s.
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Murilee Martin
05/30/09

@jduffy13: The server hamsters are getting tired of running on their wheels, so now they wait a few hours before showing thumbnails.
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Anaximander
05/30/09

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Sigh. Seriously. Was the front end really that bad? I've been looking for a wagon to replace my old '66 coupe and the ratio of 2 & 4-doors to wagons on the west coast has got to be at least 10 or 20:1.

(And from the looks of that engine bay, I'd lay 10 or 20:1 odds that b18 would start right up with a fresh battery and a couple squirts of starter fluid.) Even the steelies look good!
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dead_elvis
05/30/09

@anaxomander: Where on the left coast are you? When I was living in Seattle ('93 - March '09), I'd say I saw at least equal numbers of wagons & sedans, maybe even give the nod to the wagons. Of course, Seattle's Scandihoovians are a practical bunch, and seem to lean towards Volvo wagons > sedans of any vintage.

Oddly, as a wagon-inclined sort, my Volvo ownership while a Seattle resident stacked up as 1 '76 244, 1 '72 145, and 1 '80 244.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
05/30/09

@dead_elvis: Heart-click for for the Volvo love.. are you originally from VT, or one of them fromawayuhs? (Multiple vintage Volvo ownership, I think we'd let you slide anyway)
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JB_Finesse
05/30/09

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Damn. I hope somebody at least got the glass and most of the wagon-specific parts.
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
05/30/09

@JB_Finesse: That's the first thing I saw, too.

Junkyard glass tends to last until the first dumb-asses enter, at least it did in Vegas.

Morons.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
05/30/09

@I wish for a D/FW LeMons: The "first dumbasses" being the guys that work at the junkyard- at least in my town. This poor car (not being something worthy of respect, like a Chevy pickup), would've been violated like a 20-dollar whore by a forkloader within hours on the first day.
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.357
05/30/09

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R.I.P, you great machine.
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BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
05/30/09

@.357-Bringing Back The Gold: Who says it´s dead. Just mount a carburettor on it give it juice and probably fires up right on, these B18 are very durable.
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