Actually, Jon, that's about average, even less than average for the Prince George region.

Red Raster and I live in the same neighbourhood, and this is a photograph of my beater from the same year. (winter, 2013) ( I now drive an even older, but less decrepid, Nissan Pathfinder.)

http://www.pbase.com/moltogordo/image/131989163.jpg


and from the same year, two months later:

http://www.pbase.com/moltogordo/image/132858705.jpg

Man, THAT'S more snow than we'd likely see in a CENTURY... The most accumulation I remember was a freak April 15th snow in the mid-'80s that dumped about 2 feet here. Most of the time, however, a BIG snow for us would be a 6-8 incher-Barely a flurry for y'all, but it sends us Hillbillies into a PANIC.

More snow in Northern BC, that makes sense.

An El Taurumino (or Mercury Sable?), there's something I don't see much of anymore. Good choice for a beater.

Are you by chance a Devotee' of David's Farm, Jon ?!? (grin)

Yup, haha. I was wondering if anyone would pick up on that.

My dream would be to take my '67 Lincoln convertible sedan to David's Farm & Get Air on Sky Hill.. If I'm ever feeling low, I look up the one where he roasts that ginormous "Bee" nest in the old Datsun/Nissan, catches the roof liner on fire, & has to scramble to get the fire out. MMmmmmmm.. Bee Burgers... More Bees, please !

Actually that was a 1982 Toyota Cressida. ;)

Getting air on Sky Hill with the Lincoln shouldn't be too hard considering the air the Cheviac got one time.

Yeah, you're right. It WAS a Cressida. The "Star" there was the huge Bee Nest, tho-The car was merely incidental.

Look what i was hiding in the garage all this time.
 

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So comes the time when you want make room and sell things. 86 Olds Cutlass Saloon w/ 305 and factory T roof original owner
http://m2.i.pbase.com/g9/42/971642/2...2.KESMAvUG.jpg
With only 150000km or 90000miles no rust, in good original condition the cleaning and detailing will be easy.
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Now for the tough part after driving it around for a few days do I really want to sell it?:scratch2:

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Aww man!! that is a Beaut... I would love to get my hands on one of these era Cutlass's. My parents had an '86 as well in the early '90s. If it's stock though, it has the 307. None that I know of came with 305's. mmm very nice:thmbsp:

Anyway's as to What I drive,
Ive got a 2001 Jeep Cherokee Sport with the 4.0 BW4. Almost has 170,000m.
A 1994 GMC Suburban 4X4, L05 350, 4L60 140,000. Rusty but trusty hauler.
and my first vehicle which is now the project. My trusty old 1987 Dodge Dakota. 2bbl 3.9, A999 Tourqueflite with 140,000. It's getting a built up LA318 sometime in the future. Hopefully this summer. Also working on the body some and going to try to find some wheels for it. Looking for some old Dodge Turbine wheels seen on the Ramchargers in the 80's.

They came with 305's. They haven't made a 307 probably since the early 70's. Not speedsters by any means but fairly reliable.


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Aww man!! that is a Beaut... I would love to get my hands on one of these era Cutlass's. My parents had an '86 as well in the early '90s. If it's stock though, it has the 307. None that I know of came with 305's. mmm very nice:thmbsp:

The Oldsmobile 307 was the last true Olds designed V-8 engine. Besides the nylon cam gear they hold up quite well. I'm not sure what year it was first produced though but definitely not to be confused with the late 60's early 70's Chevrolet 307 or later 305!

That is a pretty Cutlass and I bet it will cruise nice on the highway!

Red Raster; That Olds is a beautiful car...... I would NOT sell it.....

Hope you post pictures of your '87 Dakota, I got a '88 auto 3.9 also HD springs, 15"
ordinary gray wheels...... Hope to put a paint'n on it maybe next year.....

It would be cool to go out to Ca. and get one of those Convertible Dakotas ! !


http://www.dakotaconvertible.com/

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Yeah, I wouldn't trade something like that for something as common as money.

The more I drive it the more I want to keep it, Also I get a kick out of answering questions like Where did you get it? "from the dealer" or what restoration did you do
after getting it? "none I got it new" And most of all it really stands out in the modern croud
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There's a reason why the Cutlass was such a top seller and a big money maker for Olds. The G-Bodies to me were a disappointment when they first came out in '78 but GM did a good job of refining them through the years. The Grand Prix was ok but the Cutlass/442/Hurst Olds, Buick Regal/Grand National/GNX and the Chevrolet Monte Carlo/SS became standouts worthy to be collectable and the aftermarket support has been growing for these cars.

Gee, we're not helping you very much in deciding to get rid of it, huh?

Yeah, they looked IMPOSSIBLY short, stubby & fat, compared to the log, low sleek cars of 1973-'76. Funny how they had seemingly more USABLE room inside. My '76 Cutlass Supreme Brougham was LAUGHABLY small inside, especially in the back seat. You couldn't "Cuss a Cat" back there, it was so small.

The '80 Grand Prix is my favorite of those mentioned.

Try finding a Monte Carlo Aerocoupe.

I have a brochure on the Monte (1987) and I recall the Grand Prix had a version also. Very rare then!

Yr Humble Narrator once did an EXTREMELY Stoopid thing w/his '76 Cutlass. Was going to school at Univ of Richmond, Roanoke, Va was about 1/2 way there. There was also a Girls' College, Hollins there, & I knew a couple girls who went there, they were from my hometown. Stopped in to see 'em, visited awhile, & then got back out on I-81, heading to I-64, & back to Richmond. Anyhow, before I left Roanoke, I saw a sign that said, "GAS, 59.9", & methinks, that's CHEAP gas for this interstate... This was in Spring '77. Anyhow, I pull in, stick the nozzle in, & commence fillin' 'er up... Guy came over, sez, You owe me 10 bux.. I sez, Nooooo, I used that CHEAP gas.. He looked at me funny, & said, Son, you just put $7.50 of Diesel in yr car.. Now, ALL of you know that there's times in a boy's life when he REALLY wants his Mama... That was one of 'em for me..Will it hurt my car ? No, but, Shit-For-Brains, it'll rattle & smoke. I went from Roanoke to Staunton, about 70 miles, I had it in 2nd gear, going 75-80, had the windows rolled down, A/C on "Get It", radio playin', ANYTHING I could do to burn up that damn Weasel.. It sounded like Ricky Ricardo's Rhumba Band, & put out a smoke screen that would do James Bond justice. It also got 37 MPG, I stopped almost every chance I could, & put more gas in it. Got back to school, shut it off & it just sat there, continuing to run, VERY roughly.. UR was a small school, everybody about knew everybody else, & good gossip travels FAST-I had people comin' up to me if I was the one who put Diesel in his car, & then they'd crack up But the car suffered no long-term ill effects, it all worked out OK.. But I DON'T recommend doing it...(grin)

Yeah, everyone knows that diesel should only be used in a gas engine if the vehicle doesn't have a catalytic converter.

You probably dont have to go to CA. to get one. They sometimes appear on CL. Ive seen a few legit one's on there. We've got a red convertable that roams around town durring the summer that's in mint shape.
I didn't know Dakota's came with HD springs, or were they added later?...
Any pics of your's?

First is when I baught it in 2009.
2nd and 3rd are from last year, truck was showing it's true colors. All the shoddy previous body work re-rusting out. Aint it nice.:sigh: The front also met a tree that winter. Damn front wheels locked in the middle of a turn on soft fresh snow.:no:
4th is how it looked a few weeks back. I took a lot of crap off that i've wanted to get rid of and am working on the hood and roof. It looks better now though with more paint.
Dont lauph too much at this one, but 5th is one I made up with the MSpaint and how i'd like the truck to look. Kind of a throwback to the late60's early70's mopar muscle look. Flat black hood too. Think Duster+Demon. I cant afford one so... Ive also got a 318 that im going to be building for it.

Well, lets see if this works,

Now this is a birthday present
 

my buddy from high school got this for his birthday last year...as you can see from the garage....money is not an issue for him. Very nice Ferrari next to it as well.

my 64 Valiant
 

finished this last year. 25k original rust free miles, original interior, motor, trans. Rebult slanty and 904, new top. Power nothin'! My son used it for some of his wedding pictures last summer. Yup...push button auto.

I have a '67 Lincoln convertible sedan, like my avatar. SOMETIMES I really do wish it had "Power Nothin'" like yr little beauty does...3 hydraulic pumps, 14 little electric motors, & 25 relays all have to be in more or less Agreement for the top to go up or down on it...

Rebult slanty . aka the leaning tower of power

I guess the A-904 was around for quite a while. The engine in the car is probably a 225ci. My '64 had a 170 with three on the tree. Like most of my vehicles, very basic transportation. :thmbsp:

Damn! Your cars roof has enough relays to do math in binary! Lincoln must have had Rube Goldberg on staff back then....

The 1961-67 Lincoln convertible sedans had a SIMPLIFIED, & IMPROVED version of the 1957-59 Ford Fairlane retractable top "Hardtops"... The last couple of years, 1966 & '57, they were sposedly "Improved" even MORE. Actually, they REALLY DO work pretty well, if given HALF a chance... And, its one HELLUVA show, watching the deck lid raise itself up, the "Flapper" unfold itself, the Top folding itself into a ball, & then the decklid coming back down all nice & slow.... Back 30-35 yrs ago, when I bought mine, it was estimated that to build & make a car EQUAL to the level of build quality inherent in the 1961-67 pervertable sedans, would cost Ford a whopping $40K apiece..

Daily Driver- 1978 Fiat 124 Spider

Also appearing in Al's driveway

'71 Fiat 850 Spider (restoring an underdash FM-8track to go-in it now)
'75 Lancia Beta coupe
'85 Bertone X1/9
'87 Yugo GV
'95 Mercedes E320 Wagon (wife's old car-just right for picking up old electronics!)
'96 SAAB 900 turbo convertible (wife's good weather toy)
'12 Fiat 500 (wife's daily driver)

and enough parts to someday build a '59ish Fiat 600...

Al

Daily driver is a 2009 GMC Canyon with the 5.3 V8, love this truck!!!
2013 Ford Escape, wife's car
1961 Corvair Lakewood wagon
1962 Corvair Spyder Convertible
2009 Star Stratoliner motorcycle

Gregb

Picked up another! This is #4! Dang, I've got alot of vehicles.:lmao: Now I got to sell one... Who wants to buy an '87 Dakota?!

Anyway's, I finally picked up a Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Don't know why I like them, but I do and they are hard to come by around here. Got it reasonably too, kinda.:stupid: It's a project, but it runs and drives. Needs some help though, body rust, bad clearcoat, carb issues, leaky exhaust, bad rear glass motor(have replacement), loose 'semi' scary steering, squishy brakes that need bleeding, and a the rear view mirror fell off... and some other misc. It's a little worn for only having 101,3XX miles but that AMC 360 sounds good, the 727 shifts good,4X4 works. Not too bad, but not the best from March of 1990
I havn't taken pics yet, these are from the CL add.

Those Grand Wagoneers were the finest 1962 cars still on the market..

For about the last two years my daily driver has been a '96 Nissan Pickup. 2.4, 5-speed, it was a one-owner that had regular maintenance. I'm now pushing 230,000 miles on her, she gets 22mpg running the a/c, and consumes a quart of oil every 2,500 miles.

In April I made an impulse buy - a one-owner 5-speed '88 Toyota Corolla station wagon with 106,000 miles and every single receipt ever handed to the lady. Spent a few months rebuilding the front end completely, she's now mechanically in top nick. Unfortunately the old lady ran into several things in the last few years; if I decide to keep her indefinitely I'll have the front bumper straightened out and paint her. My daily commute is about 60 miles round trip and the wagon is getting 35-36 mpg.

Wait....Do you guys mean those things were STILL sold new in 1990?!

Actually I think '91 was the last year for them! :D

The original SUV that started it all!

So the year I was born was the last year for new first model Atari 2600s and first body style SUVs.

Those wagoniers were in 60 minutes once a month by the end, all that 60's
engineering was making them look really bad.... The best one I remember
the key to run up the rear glass would get locked into on, if you let go of
the giant slide off keyhole cover, it would lock the 'up' mode and somehow
a few kids got cut, or almost cut in half by it.... My mom use to tell us kids
not to get our fingers near the electric windows in our first electric window car,
she cut a few pencils in half to make sure we "got it"....

Is it ok if I make a wood splitter from our electric windows mom ?

They are hard to find around here too.... They had rust catchers all over
the place on them.... I think they could hold a Ford Expedition inside....
Sandy might disagree :) Anyway happy you got what you wanted, thanks for
the memories, hope you post more pictures of it with the back off, change
all the caps they gotta be bad, they were still using paper caps on them, do
the electrolytics and the seleniums I think they hid them in the front rocker
panels..... Again good luck ! Gunna paint it ?

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After 11 years of ownership, the '85 Chevy van that we called "Patches", burned up in an underhood fire :cry: . I owed my whole life to that van. Saw my kids from diapers to teenagers.

My stepson borrowed it to move stuff with, and he couldn't get it started. It was raining sideways over by his place, and I figured something got wet. I got it running, and figured the water would work itself out, which it did. Stopped for gas, and there was an occasional miss, but everything seemed to be okay....until it backfired hard, shot flames out the tailpipe, and stalled at a light, where I saw a wisp of smoke come from under the hood. I told him "GET OUT", popped the hood, and the flames rolled out :(

As you can see, the damage was extensive, but I decided I was gonna fix it anyway. This van was my baby. I removed the plugs, cleaned out all the debris, removed everything that was melted and burned, then pulled and bench tested the starter and reinstalled it with wiring to roll the engine over.

The engine was locked up solid. With sagging rear springs, rusted brake lines, nonexistent lower control arm bushings, cracked windshield, and a body that was starting to rust badly....it was time to call it done.

This week, I invested $400 into a '96 Grand Caravan with 187K. Runs great and the body's pretty rust free, just a little bruised up. I put some tires on it yesterday, and I'll need to work on a few little issues....but all in all it seems to be a good solid ride. And I won't have to fill my Cadillac DTS with crap at ETF, I'll drive this instead.

It's really hard to let go of Patches, but she's just too far gone. Anyone need any full size van parts?

1992 Ford Ranger Super-Cab

I bought this recently to replace a Saturn that was nearing what I believed to be 450K miles on the engine. I ended up selling it to a nice kid down in Indiana whos fixing it back up. I was tired of driving a small car, and I needed something large. I figure instead of spend more on the Saturn, I sold it and got what I needed instead.

Cost me $950, with some pulling from savings and what have you. I've done some mild work to it already but it seems to be very solid, well taken care of and so far, very reliable. 2.9L Cologne V6, A4LD 4-Speed Auto, 4x4. Seems like a pretty strong little truck to me. It really has a lot of features that resemble a 1994 Ford Explorer I used to own many years ago.

It's going to be my winter truck to a large degree. I won't drive the Courier after the first measurable snow fall. It get's a cover tossed on it and put away for the winter.
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1980 Ford Courier

This is my baby. Hardly any of these left in the world, let alone on the road. This little champ came to me in a trade. I had a 1991 Volkswagen Cabriolet Etienne Aigner edition convertible. I bought it because I thought it was super cool, and it turned out to be a huge pain in the ass. So I tossed it on Craigslist after 6 months of messing with it, and with in a week, an email comes in from a nice fella up in Milwaukee, offering me a "Courier". I was extremely skeptical at first.

I wanted a truck, plain and simple, but I had never heard of a "Courier" so I looked at the pictures and Googled it, and found out, it was Fords little truck before the Ranger. Mazda Built in japan, chicken tax truck. Engine, and bed attached here on the west coast. Packed with a Ford 2.3L and a Mazda 5-Speed manual box. I was all ears.

We talked for over a week and a half over email and I finally went to see it. It was a disaster. It barely ran because of vacuum leaks, and had a lot of "What am I even doing?!" repairs. We traded, I drove it home over 100 miles, after stopping for gas and getting clever with a roll of duct tape, it ran fine.

Never had an issue since!

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