68 Coronet wagon 500 derby rescue

Well I somehow ended up with another Mopar, they just keep following me home. I picked up a 68 Coronet 500 wagon. It's supposed to be a 9 passenger, not sure cause I don't have any keys and can't get the back open. It's pretty solid, has some rust in the floor pans.
It has live a rough life, for sure. I did save it from being a derby car, guess that should count for something. I found it on craigslist locally and went to take a look at it last week. It was at some kind of Mopar lord of the flies junkyard. The kid selling it was in his 20's and as I walked around his little junkyard looking at it and some of his other cool junk I kept seeing more guys in their late teens coming out from behind stuff until there was about 10 of them. Really weird, almost Deliverence like, I was a little worried. They all ended up being nice enough, talking all at the same time like they hadn't had a visitor in years. Any how I made a deal with them and traded a cutting torch and few hundred bucks for it, and they even delivered it for me.
I'm hoping the floor pans are the same as some out of a 67 Belvedere 4 door I have. It needs interior work, and the headliner is shot. Body is rust free, lots of dings and battle scars. I think I will leave it pretty much a rat rod look for now, just get her driving and functional with tires, brakes, and suspension upgrades.
It has a 318 with an auto on the column, bench seat. I think I will drop in a 440 and just run it Mad Max style all summer. My wife hates it and says it is the most hideous car ever. I love it though.
Would appreciate any tips from any other wagon guys on what parts are compatable or where to get carpet, headliner, rear passenger window, etc. Any one know what rear end would have been in this beast, axle code on fender tag is 1. Hoping it's a 8 3/4 at least.
Check out that sweet custom window made of some metal roofing.

I love that ! I see it with woodgrain finish self adhesive vynil down the sides between the trim and the widest set of black steels you can fit under the arches :headbang:
You've got to lose the tin window though....

NEVER and I mean NEVER go to look at something off Craiglist alone. Take someone with you if not two someone's to look at anything. You never know what can happen, and in a state where legal, take the equalizer.

Looks like most of the hard to find bits are there and in good shape, especially the back bumper. Nice score!

I would love to re-do the wood grain, but since I am missing all the race track trim on the driver side I think I will just delete the trim on passenger side. I've always loved a green with brown woodgrain wagon. I'm not gonna restore this one however, just get her road worthy and then enjoy the looks of horror and disgust from all the yuppies as I scream by.

I see it has the ultra-rare factory airbrakes above the tail lights :glasses2:

Congrats on the new project, always nice to see another '68 500.

Campar... there a wood stove in there? It should have a 8 3/4 and a lot of good parts because the wagons were hd or a tow package. Great save

love it, glad you saved it!

Just a heads up.

There is RT tail light for that car on eBay right now if you need one.

that is so cool beyond words.......any progress so far?

hope it gets fixed up.

I have one very similar to it :headbang:

I went to and from high school one year in exactly that model car. It was a neighbor kid down the road and the family had given him the wagon, 383 727, green interior. He was 2 grades older than me (I didn't have my permit yet). He beat the snot out of it and it was probably some of my first white knuckle rides/"driving right of passage" stuff. Wagons weren't cool back then, but having any set of wheels to call your own held sway.

Neat car good save. The gas tank on the 68-70 wagons are the same as the 66-67 b-body.

bigowhiteboy said:

I've always loved a green with brown woodgrain wagon.

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Amen. My 72 Town and Country was that combo. Ended up pulling the drivetrain for my Belv. Wish I woulda had something to go back in it, but ended up sending it to a junkyard.