Several weeks ago I picked up a 1967 122S Wagon. The previous owner owned the car for 15 or so years. The last couple of years it wasn't being used that much mostly been shuffled across the street for weekly street cleaning. With the pandemic, parking restrictions were lifted and the car sat idle for several months. When street cleaning was reinstated, the owner was unable to get the car started and then had it towed to a storage yard in the Bayview where it sat since.
A friend connected me with the owner a year ago and I took a look at the car and made an offer. He ended up sitting on it and things went quiet. Every couple of months I would check to see if the car was still in the same spot. A month ago I reached out to him and he was now ready to deal. Along with the car came four large plastic bins of spare parts and the price came out to less than $.70 a cc.
Wanted to see if the wagon could be driven under its own power. Put the battery on a charger for a day and a half and 4 of the cells were totally dead. Gathered up various tools, 2 gallons of gasoline, a spare battery among other things. Went over to the storage yard on a Saturday afternoon with a friend of mine to attempt to get the 122S started and mobile. This is a short video of the work and progress that day.
A friend connected me with the owner a year ago and I took a look at the car and made an offer. He ended up sitting on it and things went quiet. Every couple of months I would check to see if the car was still in the same spot. A month ago I reached out to him and he was now ready to deal. Along with the car came four large plastic bins of spare parts and the price came out to less than $.70 a cc.
Wanted to see if the wagon could be driven under its own power. Put the battery on a charger for a day and a half and 4 of the cells were totally dead. Gathered up various tools, 2 gallons of gasoline, a spare battery among other things. Went over to the storage yard on a Saturday afternoon with a friend of mine to attempt to get the 122S started and mobile. This is a short video of the work and progress that day.
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