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Black_Sheep said:
It sounds like the John Deere tax is as bad as the Mopar tax...
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22 was shipping, but still. Stupid thing, most where about 10 bucks, simplest was 29. That said, just glad I could get gaskets for a 49 year old machine. Otherwise it was scanning and #1 Son laser cutting them.
 
Dave6T4 said:
This is actually the rarest Dodge Muscle station wagon. I only built the one! 9-passenger 3-seat 1967 Coronet R/T wagon, built with 440 Magnum and 4-speed with Inland shifter handle on Hurst guts. The wagon has an 8 3/4" rear end equipped with 3.55 gears on a Suregrip differential. I added a rear sway bar to this car, that improved the stability of the tail-heavy wagon greatly. The front brakes were converted to pin-caliper disc brakes. It has dark red bucket seat interior with front "buddy" seat, and carpeted cargo area. I made up a pair of 8" wide 15" Police wheels for the rear, and had 7" wide ones on the front, painted body colour. These wheels wore 1969 Dodge "Red Circle" hub caps.
When I was restoring my 1967 Coronet R/T hardtop, I came up with another too-far-gone R/T as a parts car. This gave me some vital extra parts to convert my Coronet 440 wagon to a phantom R/T one. I was careful to build mine as Chrysler could have done, with proper emblems and placement. The grill received the correct R/T-only centrepiece, and the hood got its scoop. I even went as far as cutting the quarter panel "scoops"out of my parts car, and grafting them into the rear doors, as an R/T would have. 4-door cars did not have this feature. Unlike other Coronets that had a gas filler door, wagons had an exposed gas cap. I adapted a 1967 GTX cap to fit the wagon. A spare Coronet 500/R/T rear trunklid finish panel was narrowed and sectioned to fit the tailgate, between the tail lights We drove it to Chryslers at Carlisle in 1999, and many people took pictures of it and commented on it. Rob Wolfe did a photo shoot of it, and it was featured in Mopar Collectors Guide. The wagon was eventually sold to a man in Michigan. A couple of years later, a friend of mine saw it in a collector car auction in Detroit, in connection with the Woodward Ave. Dream Cruise. When it went across the block, it was advertised as a One-of-One factory 1967 Coronet R/T wagon, specially built for a Chrysler executive, to pull his custom Ski boat! Over the years, it migrated back to Ontario, and sits in a collection about 40 miles from me.
The first picture is my first version, with 383, automatic. We drove it to Mopar Nationals in Columbus in 1986, and we were the only station wagon there. Other pictures are R/T conversion.

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I rarely ever put a car back together the way it came. That's the fun part, taking off in a direction some would like and others would never understand. Back in the real car days, you could get a car built almost anyway you wanted. Today, in order to get one thing you really want, you get a whole different car and a price that can put some people off. My 67 Dart GT was a loaded 273, I put in the 340, automatic, console, A/C, vinyl roof, with optional bumper guards and headrests. My 69 Dart was a stripped 340, 4 speed, bench seat and rubber floored. I had a friend with a factory 4 door, fuel injected 57 Chevy. Those days made buying a car a ton of fun.

It's easy to disassemble a car and then reassemble it, you have a blueprint of how it went, a clear cut route to follow. In the madman's approach, the sky's the limit and it requires an eye for what could be along with good taste. I like your wagon, well done!!
 
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