Looks to be a good survivor:
Nice wagon. 83 will be a carb also. All 4 hubcaps are intact. Miles of brown interior.
Miles of brown is better than acres and acres of that red!
This is pretty darn neat.
My wife did say that we might have to start looking for a minivan/ family car soon.
I wonder if this is what she had in mind 
It would swallow multiple car seats and dogs pretty easily, I bet.
put the new ls based 4.3 in it with a 4l60e trans and get great mileage and still have some style
TIGMOTORSPORTS wrote: Nice wagon. 83 will be a carb also. All 4 hubcaps are intact. Miles of brown interior.
I thought someone said in another thread that the square B-body wagons were some of the last carbureted cars sold in the U.S. This one may also have a 307, and if so that is also one of the last of the classic BOP V-8's, the other divisions losing their own V8's sometime in the 70's or 80's.
Pretty cool. I like it.
this car just keeps drawing you back in. I'd leave the outside the way it is. Interior is really in great shape.
The problem with these cars for modern family transport is GM used lap belts only for the rear passengers during this generation if I remember right.
Not super conducive to child seats.
Volvo had shoulder belts in their rear starting in the late 1960s.
Erich wrote: The problem with these cars for modern family transport is GM used lap belts only for the rear passengers during this generation if I remember right. Not super conducive to child seats. Volvo had shoulder belts in their rear starting in the late 1960s.
That's correct.
I had that exact car. It was a horrible place to spend time. It smoked heavily out the exhaust for 30 minutes every morning, so I would start it 30 minutes before leaving for work. I hate 307's. My 87 was much less of a pile of crap.
In reply to Patrick:
Might I suggest a solution to the 307?
If I hadn't just bought a dumber car I'd probably be planning a trip to go get this thing. And then start looking for a wrecked/rusty donor truck.
Patrick wrote: I had that exact car. It was a horrible place to spend time. It smoked heavily out the exhaust for 30 minutes every morning, so I would start it 30 minutes before leaving for work. I hate 307's. My 87 was much less of a pile of crap.
My old Caprice, or a different one? I put like 15k on it driving back and forth to Kent and never had any smoking issues.
Esoteric Nixon wrote:Patrick wrote: I had that exact car. It was a horrible place to spend time. It smoked heavily out the exhaust for 30 minutes every morning, so I would start it 30 minutes before leaving for work. I hate 307's. My 87 was much less of a pile of crap.My old Caprice, or a different one? I put like 15k on it driving back and forth to Kent and never had any smoking issues.
Yours was the good one. The 83 olds i had was this one's rusty flapping clone
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