Greetings from Seattle, I just wanted to check in and say hello. I picked up a '95 Roadmaster wagon from a fellow in Yakima and drove it back home 170 miles with a spark plug that was in hand-tight and a cooling system full of brown sludge. I've been working on the car for the last month or so and catching up on maintenance. It runs nicely now, it's leaking everything but I'll get things buttoned up slowly but surely.
My father had purchased a (used) 1995 Roadmaster sedan many years ago, and although I have always been a 'small car' guy and derided the "Roadmonster" there was no question that it was a fantastic road trip car. My family was certainly no stranger to the GM B-body with various Oldsmobiles and Buicks owned throughout my lifetime. Now that I have my own family and I have the occasional need to transport 6 or more people and/or bulky items, and the fact that I really can't stand driving SUVs or minivans, my thoughts turned to the old-fashioned full-size station wagon- and here I am.
The car has 165k miles on it, Medium Adriatic Blue with blue interior. It was originally purchased by a lawyer who lived on Park Avenue in NYC, and the car made its way from NY to Connecticut, then to Florida and eventually to California and then Washington. It's been around! The door panels are falling apart like every other Roadmaster (my dad's car did the same thing) and it appears to have every available option. I'm not particularly a fan of the Flowmasters someone decided to put on the car, but when you rev the motor and it sounds like a Camaro it does get some laughs. One thing I'll say about the car, it doesn't fail to put smiles on peoples faces. Even the neighborhood kids who come up and ask "what kind of a car is this?" having never seen anything like in their entire lifetimes. Sad, if you ask me.
I'm here mainly to get technical info on how to fix the various broken things I find, and to share anything I learn myself in the same process. And hopefully to find someone with a pristine set of blue front door panels. (yeah, dream on!)
I'll say this so far- for a relatively large car with a relatively small engine, it's sure hard to work on. I thought VW's were challenging!
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