Cylinder walls were worn away and it burned oil like crazy.
Water pump was replaced at 77000 miles.
Exhaust was replaced at 77000 miles.
This car ran great when I got it, it just used a lot of oil (as most of them seemed to do).
It was my first car and I thought that it handled pretty well, and would drive over, through, under, and across, just about any kind of terrain.
It was a station wagon, yellow with woodgrain (Like the "Family Truckster") :-)
I'd love to get another one and drop a 327 in it.
It was very comfortable to drive around the expanses of Texas, until a rod knock developed on Thanksgiving Day of 1984. I was way away from the AF Base where I was stationed and it threw a rod at about 80 MPH and destroyed the motor. Even after all of that, I have fond memories of it, and remember it as being a very fun car to drive and I could haul all of my friends around in it. When we would go camping, if the mosquitoes got too bad, my friends would ask me to drive some laps around the campsite to get rid of them. :-)
Were you stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls? Just curious as I've been a life long resident.
I can be e-mailed at guy.1966@hotmail.com.
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