OK...
After spending the morning cleaning it out and removing the smaller items I've found...
that the hatch and hinges are good, as are the brackets/stops for the lower gate. The lower hinges are, well, siezed.
The frame looks good so far and the pass. door.
Driver's door is shot, but contains all the internals and the upper window frame is good for grafting onto a sedan lower. The lower door skin is rusted at the bottom and hit at the lower front corner but is otherwise intact.
Fenders are a mess but I may be able to salvage the vent doors. Does anyone section in the headlight bucket area anymore?
The engine is siezed, but still complete, with an OD tranny and 3rd member intact. It'll be awhile before I can open up the gearboxes to see if there was any water intrusion.
I am prepared to take a chop saw to the rear corner areas (in and around the fins) for those of you that got hit from behind, and the roof and the rear (seat/cargo area) floor. The quarters are shot. The right rear side is saveable minus the bottom of the quarter panel.
The floor is good under and behind the rear seat, and over the front tunnel. I still need to clean out the spare tire well to judge it's condition, but I'm not holding my breath.
There is a good manual steering column/box (3 sp. OD), and the front suspension and spindles.
The seat frames and associated stainless trim (rear seat) is good.
Also a good dashboard. I need to mess with the guage cluster, but will make a guage available eventually. Even the glovebox liner is intact.
The front grilles are pitted and missing the emblems, but are paintable.
The roof has a little rust hole at the driver's 'A' pillar, and a dent from inside at the passenger 'A' pillar, but appears to be ok other than that. The headliner bows are good.
Also there are both small side trims (aka: Briz's rear side trim), the Stude emblem on the gate, and the (small/thin) windshield trim that inserts into the windshield seal.
As you can imagine, the floor footwell areas are ...gone! The fuel tank is there, but no telling what shape it's in til it's removed.
After I finish the removal of the bolt on stuff, I'll start to cut up the rest into more manageable pieces with a gas powered chop saw. I'll prolly cut the body off the chassis a piece at a time til the chassis and drivetrain is all that's left. I'll then separate the rest into components.
I need to know what is needed from y'all and where you want me to cut. I'll prolly be ready to scrap the rest by next weekend, so get your orders in.
Also, I'd like to save the good pieces (wagon specific) that aren't immediatly wanted for someone that might need them later down the road, so am looking for what to save and where to cut.
I'm gonna just stockpile the stuff for now and won't ship anything til the detritus is hauled away. Like I said...I gotta make this happen quick. I will ship what y'all need, but not til I get the rest out of my buddies back yard.
He's a fellow car enthusiast with a built 700 HP '64 GTO in the garage and a backyard full of rock crawlers.
He's also helping (indirectly) to preserve the Conestoga wagon, and he doesn't even own one. If fact, he's such a good friend, that I used the $200 that I owed him to buy the car... and then stuck it in his backyard...
A true friend indeed!
I've been trying to post pics at Webshots but have been dumped 6 times now. It'll let me browse-n-choose, but not upload. As soon as I get pics online I'll share the URL.
Stay tuned, more to come...
