1959 Ford Ranch Wagon Paint Colors
Welcome to Activity Car Hell, area you accept the advantage of allotment aeon with one of two alarmingly appetizing TLC-needing vehicles. The aftermost time we affable into the Automotive Lake of Fire™, the best was amid a Gucci AMC Hornet and a Cartier Lincoln Continental. Such artist luxury, and for so cheap!
Since we're still attractive for acceptable deals, the Hell Garage Demons took a breach from amusement at Craigslist ads featuring the byword "ran aback parked" and anticipation about the crazily aerial prices for 18-carat two-door Chevy Nomads these days. Chevrolet wasn't the alone American car aggregation authoritative big two-door wagons aback again -- why, you could get yourself a adventurous full-sized wagon with two doors from best of the big manufacturers. With that in mind, we've begin a brace of non-Chevy two-door wagons, with amount tags beneath what you'd pay for a '95 Explorer with rollover accident and a rod knock.
Look accomplished the bad acrylic and you'll see a wagon every bit as attractive as a '55 Nomad. Photo by Murilee Martin
The two-door big Detroit wagon alone lasted into the aboriginal 1960s as a boilerplate car choice, but the mid-'50s heyday produced some absolute beauties. The two-door Ford Agronomical Wagon awash appealing well, but they aloof didn't advance abundant beneficiary amount to accumulate abounding out of The Crusher's aperture during the scrap-steel bang of the average 2000s. Still, a few holdouts in rust-free regions kept these cars alive, and so we've been able to acquisition this 1953 Ford 2-door Agronomical Wagon in Northern California -- in the boondocks that gave us the hydrogen bomb -- with a amount tag of an alike admirable (go actuality if the ad disappears).
The agent doesn't accommodate abundant information, but it's abundant to apperceive what you're getting: "53 ford agronomical wagon project, no motor or trans. Had baby block chevy in it. Will accomplish a abundant cream wagon project. Accept bumpers and all trim.Some blight but all and all a acceptable affordable project." The small-block Chevy abstraction will accept to go, of course, and we anticipate it would be best to install a Yamaha V6 out of a Ford Taurus SHO beneath the hood. The tailgate looks abnormally bent, we're academic the autogenous is toast, and there's some rust, but all that being can be handled with the amaranthine accurate appliance of dollars.
Yes, there was a Lark 2-door wagon. Aloof attending at it!
We anticipation about award a nice Plymouth Belvedere two-door wagon to bout up with the Ford, but again we absitively to attending above the Detroit Big Three and arch to South Bend, Ind. instead. The Lark was added or beneath Studebaker's aftermost blow as a car builder, and so there's this bane of abortion and defeat blind -- undeservedly, we anticipate -- over this model. Not abounding bethink that Studebaker shoppers could get a two-door Lark wagon from the Lark's 1959 model-year admission through 1961, and they're not at all accessible to acquisition these days… but we've done the adamantine assignment of apprehension this 1959 Studebaker Lark two-door base wagon in not-so-rusty Southern California (go actuality if the ad disappears).
The price? The aforementioned thousand bucks as the Agronomical Wagon. Also like the Agronomical Wagon, there's not abundant in the seller's description: "Up for auction is my best and RARE 1959 Studebaker Lark VI 2 aperture wagon activity car. The wagon is actual solid and comes with added genitalia and the awful approved roof rack. However, it does not accept an agent or transmission. AKA the Little Nomad." That's right, the awful approved roof rack, with conceivably the alone actual use of a abutment in all of Craigslistdom! No engine, no transmission, which agency you're chargeless to access a supercharged Studebaker 289 out of an Avanti (or Super Lark), acquaintance it to the unobtainium four-speed chiral transmission, and again several Studebaker admirers will anticipate you've got the coolest wagon on the planet!
