Happy and Sad Christmas travels....gained a new wagon, hurt my favorite wagon - PICS

So I went up to the Texas Hill Country over the holiday week.   Took all my kids to Enchanted Rock for hiking, and then surprised my oldest son Eddie with a black 1978 Buick Electra wagon project car for he and I to restore.   Father and son wagons!  Was so excited!!

It was a great time, right up until we went to drive home and a deer used my beloved 1996 Roadmaster wagon to commit suicide.  The older members on this group know my car well, and how much I love it.   I'm SICK about this.  

Hit Bambi at 70mph, about 15-miles east of Johnson City.    Nobody was hurt, (which is what matters the MOST), and thankfully the airbags didn’t go off, but my I now have TWO Buick station wagon projects at my house.   My wife is SO happy…    

Kinda put a damper on my Christmas spirit, but again, at least we are all ok, and I’ll fix my favorite white-whale soon.   It WAS a nice holiday other than the drive home.

Never a dull moment.  Hope ya'll had a great holiday!  

-Mike

you can buy new rad support hood etc,. from rock auto still,.

The orange wagon hit a deer too,..

phantom 309 wrote:

you can buy new rad support hood etc,. from rock auto still,.

The orange wagon hit a deer too,..

DANG I didn't know the orange wagon got a deer! That's terrible! How bad?

I'm going to order a radiator and condenser from Rock Auto.

Happily B-bodies are common here, and most are rust-free, so unless Rock Auto is super-cheap, will most-likely go nab a support at Wrench-A-Part or Pick-N-Pull.

I'm going to look at this car tomorrow, and if the wood is decent will be yanking the fender and hood. Fingers are crossed!


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-Mike

glad you're ok. It's definitely fixable.

It's just a small wound, Jay shared the picture on GMSB last week, I felt bad because I drove mine to work that day.

Congrats on the '78, seeing your previous work it should be awesome!