Sold off a Crown

Thanks Scott for flying up from LA JUST to look (and buy) this great 67 Crown that was saved from a South Dakota junk yard. Needs some TLC but Scott if up for the work. It is going to become an organ donor for his 67 sedan that has a great frame but bad body.

Frame is shot but he just needs the super nice body of it. Good thing since the suspension has nothing to attach to thanks to years of rust

Save everyone of these that we can!

New Year, new resolve

Or just back to reality. Have decided to sell all 3 Crowns to make room for the constant flow of new (old) cars that I seem to have a knack of finding. And I need the money to build a new garage to house all of these.

This is my newest find as on Jan 2nd, 2011. A time capsule in a 1977 Honda Civic, right here in West Seattle. Been in storage for 21 years and has a brand new engine, never even been started.

Winter is here, time to work on the Crown

Just got the new 16x24 shed built to house the 3 crowns for parts/dismantling.

I thought that I would restore the green wagon back to factory original but then decided to put in a 7MGE from a Cressida and make it a nice daily driver.

Another wagon

Had to do it... bought the 1978 Datsun 810 wagon with only 60k on it. I had to!

Car arrives tomorrow. Can't wait to have a poop brown wagon with wood grain!

Love that old j-tin.

I do love wagons

Saw this one on Craigslist on Sept 25, have to go look at it. LOVE the wood paneling on it. What better way to have a wagon from Japan... make it look American.

Who knows, may add it to my collection. After all it only has 60,000 miles on it.

Long time between posts....

But bought another 67 Crown wagon from Indiana. Been in storage since the mid 80's and in better shape than mine so looks like Old Blue will be the donor car to make the new Minty one nice.









Few dings on the back but less rust than mine that was outside for the last 30 years. This has been in storage for many years so I'll see just how good it is when it arrives in the beginning of March.

Interior work

After a few month hiatus, I decided to get some work done on removing parts from the sedan and also getting more taken out of the wagon. Spent time cleaning up the floor to see what was lurking under the carpet and sound deadener.








Seats came out of both cars as well as lots of trim from the sedan parts car for a guy in Thailand wanting to buy lots of trim parts.









Sedan parts car has an amazingly clean and rust free interior, everything came out easy and some pieces are so nice I can reuse them without having them redone.








Found some rust holes on the front passenger side of the wagon, but that was the ONLY place it rusted through. The sedan donor cars has excellent floors so that will be used to section out a piece and weld it in the wagon.

The rest of the wagon floor is solid with just very light surface rust.