kkritsilas
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I like woodie wagons in general, but really just the ones with real wood. The later ones with the plastic wood/mactac really look like caricatures of the real thing. Grew up in an area where there were a lot of them, too. I remember a next door neighbour who brought home a 1974 Chevrolet Caprice wagon in light yellow and plastic wood. Guy was a long distance bus driver (think Greyhound), but was a mechanic as well. Turns out that he got the wagon for next to nothing due to a nasty vibration that could not be solved, and during his vacation, he sat down and figured out what the problem was (cracked flexplate, got the tranny out single handed, too, to find it). This thing must have had acres of mactac on it (had all the trimmings of a "high end" car: fake wood and hood ornament on the outside, Two foot deep seat cushions covered in "crushed velour", the whole nine yards). Very nice guy, though, and always helped my dad out, and took the time to answer my car questions.
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