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New to Us Ford Super Club Wagon
#443154 February 03rd 2011 1:37 am
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Good evening!

I got our new-to-us Ford TMW Superwagon home today, and here it is.

Looks like one of the bumper brackets is bent

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This is a big ol' sumagun...

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It has some body damage on the driver's side tail light panel, but this is the worst damage on the entire van.

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This is the side that sat in the sun all the time.

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The interior is pretty much trashed.

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The cargo area is in remarkably good shape for a 31 year old van though. No rust that I can find in the floor so far, and I gave it a pretty good looking-over.

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It has the rear heater option too...

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The engine is a 460 backed by a C6, so this puppy should tow a decent trailer with no problem. Somebody swapped out the stock Holley 670 CFM 4BBL carb for a Carter spread bore. I'm not much for that idea, so one of the things I plan on doing is finding a Holley for it at the wrecking yard and rebuilding it.

I'll be looking for seats, an armrest, and some other trim pieces while I'm at the wrecking yard.

For a 31 year old van it's pretty complete. It's missing the rear two bench seats, but that saves me from having to pull them out. It's also surprisingly rust free (thanks to the low humidity here in the desert.) The worst rust damage is in the driver's side rear wheel well. There are a couple of other spots in the rear door license plate well, and a bit of surface rust here and there, but that's it.

So there it is. All in all I don't think it's too bad for $500 (a friend gave me the van in lieu of $500 he owed me, so my out-of-pocket so far is $6 for some gas to drive it home.) Now the only thing I can think of to say is...

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

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Re: New to Us Ford Super Club Wagon
Dusty82 #443163 February 03rd 2011 4:37 am
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looks like a good deal


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Re: New to Us Ford Super Club Wagon
Dusty82 #443202 February 03rd 2011 11:52 am
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Cool van! Great job on the score. I've always wanted a big block in a van (won't fit easily in the mids). Looks like yours might be a Chateau too.

Re: New to Us Ford Super Club Wagon
Dusty82 #443212 February 03rd 2011 1:16 pm
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Re: New to Us Ford Super Club Wagon
Dusty82 #443217 February 03rd 2011 1:51 pm
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Looks like a good project.

Ya that's a big van. Go camping in it!

Re: New to Us Ford Super Club Wagon
Dusty82 #443227 February 03rd 2011 3:22 pm
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Thanks for the comments. Yep, I forgot to add that it's a Chateau.

I spent some time running the numbers online and found out that everything but the paint matches. From what I can tell, it was originally medium blue metallic and silver metallic. The interior was blue, obviously. Looking at the door jamb above, it looks like the majority of the body was blue and the area surrounded by the metal trim was silver. I'm not sure if the roof was blue or silver.

Most of the trim is there, and a couple of the missing pieces are in the van.

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As I said before, I won't be replacing the two missing rear bench seats. In fact, I may wind up recovering the bench seat that's there and using it for a BS bench in the garage.

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We had a '83 E-250 back in the 90s and we loved it. The way it was set up, we had the captain's chairs up front, another set right behind them, and a homemade folding sofa in the back, which folded down to a double sized bed. Of course we also had 4 kids with us at the time.

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We're thinking about building a platform in back and fitting a queen-sized mattress on it. It's just the two of us (and the dogs) and we don't plan on hauling anything but ourselves and maybe a friend or two in it, so we don't need to make provisions for that.

I will say that this will be my first solo attempt at making and installing a bow type headliner.

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I'm not worried about it too much though - with those huge trim panels on the sides (that panels that cover the edges of the headliner) I have a lot of room for error. This is assuming I make another bow-type headliner and don't make a rigid headliner. As I said, I haven't decided.

The interior wall panels will be relatively easy as they're basically nothing but long door panels.

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I'm just glad nobody ripped out the old panels - it saves a lot of work. I'll use the old panels as patterns and trace the outline onto PVC foam board to make new panels. For the smaller door panels and such, I'll just use waterproof panel board like I would on any other door panel.

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I have no clue what kind of pattern I'll use in any of this yet. I think the wife has decided, however, that we're going to go with blue as the interior color. I tend to agree with her on that - it's always easier to go with the original color than it is to change everything.

So, overall I'm going to try to paint it the original colors, but other than that, we're not absolutely sure what all we're going to do yet. My first priorities are going to be getting the engine and trans into shape, and tracking down some missing pieces. Right now I'm still cleaning it out and making a list of those missing parts.

Today will be spent just cleaning it up and starting on that list...


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Re: New to Us Ford Super Club Wagon
Dusty82 #443342 February 03rd 2011 9:30 pm
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Congrats....great score.

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Dusty82 #443347 February 03rd 2011 9:50 pm
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NICE SCORE ! Good luck with it and keep us posted.


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Dusty82 #443391 February 04th 2011 2:34 am
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Congrats on the new van


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