Thanks dude! We stopped for gas at your old exit in SLO today and I was reminiscing about WM...
Okay so we went to see the wagon this morning. PO and his wife were the most hospitable people we have met. He had a binder with his service records starting when they bought it in 1995 plus the original owner?s dating back to 1988.
I looked around the car in their driveway. The roof and hood had been respirated due to failing clear coat. The interior is in great shape. I was especially shocked at the nice condition of the plastics. He had a dog gate, two more Dracos plus many more odds and ends that he included. I also noticed a little coolant near the radiator hose connection which made me a little nervous.
We took it for a test drive around their neighborhood where it behaved very well while I got it up to temp. When we got back I looked for more coolant and it had all evaporated and hadn?t returned.
After a breakfast stop at Alta Bakery in Monterey, the three of us headed out, me in the 740 and my wife and daughter following in her car.
I was a little nervous because save the odd trip to SFO the car hadn?t been out of Monterey recently. I had checked the weather and saw that it was going to be over 90 from Greenfield to Paso. In spite of the lack of AC and Heat I survived San Ardo, where temps topped 98.
We stopped for a picnic at the Camp Roberts truck stop and also used the back seat as a changing table:
Getting back into Santa Barbara:
The rest of the drive was uneventful and we arrived back at home:
After dinner, I couldn?t help myself so I started going through the car. I back to blacked the bumpers, installed the dog gate, removed the hardwired garmin and the custom wood cup holder. I think that will probably be refinished and reinstalled.
As it sits after an hour of work before I ran out of light:
Tomorrow I will pick at a few more easy projects and work on putting together a list of projects I want to tackle.