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Heya fellow Bangshifters, I'm Ryan.
I'm a 25 year old Mopar freak with a whole gaggle of Mopars and little time to work on them because I'm about to start my law career.
I live out in Lohnes and Nutting land (Massachusetts) just south of Boston.
I help run a Mopar club called MassMopar (www.massmopar.net).
I've been a fairly longtime lurker on the forums and I've been an avid reader of the main Bangshift site for almost as long as it has been around.
Only recently, however, did I get totally caught up in Bangshifty fever, which was partially related to this car.
Anyway, enough about me, who cares about that?
All that matters is the car.
That car is a 1969 Plymouth Satellite 6 Passenger Station Wagon.
She is usually referred to in my house as "The Wagon" or the "Radio Flyer".
I found the car posted on a Mopar site I belong to in February of this year. She was on the Washington, DC craigslist. After agonizing about whether to buy the car, numerous calls to the owner and emailed photos resulted in a one way flight to Washington, DC with my best friend at the end of May 2014. Together we drove the Wagon home over the course of the weekend, stopping at junkyards along the way and having a blast. She only overheated once, and that's because I was giving her just too much pedal on a steep uphill grade. She quickly cooled down, I topped off the coolant, and she behaved the rest of the trip.
The Wagon was a Washington, DC area car for her entire life, and I purchased her from the second owner, who bought her from the original owner's son.
She appears to have been well taken care of, but she was definitely used, and shows plenty of little dents and a crappy repaint for it. Beauty marks, we'll call them.
As for specifications, from the factory she was equipped with the following:
318 V8 - 2 barrel
Column Shifted A904 3 Speed TorqueFlight Transmission
Factory R6 Red with Black interior.
14'' Steel Wheels with Plymouth Center Caps.
I did find the build sheet under the front seat, but the build sheet seems to be for a Q5 on Q5 teal wagon, so I need to see whether it matches up before I delve into further specs.
Here she is 4 days after I brought her into Massachusetts:
Fender Tag:
Since May, I have done a number of projects to the Wagon, but I have also spent an awful lot of time driving her. I have put almost 2000 miles on the car since I bought it, and I have been loving every minute of it. I try to do everything within a day so that I can drive the car with every spare moment I have.
To start, I replaced the rotted, nasty ground cable with 0 gauge welding wire that comes factory in a modern Charger/300/Magnum. If you ever need to redo power wiring in a vehicle, look for one of the LX cars in the junkyard - I got the entire length of wire from a Magnum for $5 at Everett's in Brockton - enough that a future project is replacing the positive cable to the starter.
Then the car needed an inspection, which required a new windshield - the original one was cracked badly. Since 4 door and wagon B Bodies did not share the windshield of the coupe, hardtop and convertible cars, I had to track down a decent used piece, which was a process. Tiny and Son's Auto Glass in Pembroke, MA replaced the windshield for me.
After that, the car started to give me starting problems, so I replaced the factory starter with the modern Mopar mini starter found on the later Dodge Trucks - mine was spec'ed for a 93 Dakota.
With the new starter in the car, the undersized battery was just not putting out enough juice for it, so I replaced the battery with the correct size. Car starts like a dream now!
Right before the Worcester, MA Cars of Summer Car Show in July, I decided I wanted to install my Roadrunner headlight bezels that I bought for the car, so I painted the grille to match.
Unfortunately I determined that the seller had given me such a good price because they were both passenger's side bezels!
So for the Cars of Summer show, I had one Roadrunner bezel, a painted grille, and one silver Satellite bezel.
Still, it made the front page of the Cars of Summer Show coverage by this car website I read that you might have seen before:
At Carlisle, I picked up a new battery tray, one NOS and one good used taillight bezel, a Roadrunner headlight bezel, and new carpet for the car, but those items had to wait until I finished the Massachusetts bar exam.
I'm a 25 year old Mopar freak with a whole gaggle of Mopars and little time to work on them because I'm about to start my law career.
I live out in Lohnes and Nutting land (Massachusetts) just south of Boston.
I help run a Mopar club called MassMopar (www.massmopar.net).
I've been a fairly longtime lurker on the forums and I've been an avid reader of the main Bangshift site for almost as long as it has been around.
Only recently, however, did I get totally caught up in Bangshifty fever, which was partially related to this car.
Anyway, enough about me, who cares about that?
All that matters is the car.
That car is a 1969 Plymouth Satellite 6 Passenger Station Wagon.
She is usually referred to in my house as "The Wagon" or the "Radio Flyer".
I found the car posted on a Mopar site I belong to in February of this year. She was on the Washington, DC craigslist. After agonizing about whether to buy the car, numerous calls to the owner and emailed photos resulted in a one way flight to Washington, DC with my best friend at the end of May 2014. Together we drove the Wagon home over the course of the weekend, stopping at junkyards along the way and having a blast. She only overheated once, and that's because I was giving her just too much pedal on a steep uphill grade. She quickly cooled down, I topped off the coolant, and she behaved the rest of the trip.
The Wagon was a Washington, DC area car for her entire life, and I purchased her from the second owner, who bought her from the original owner's son.
She appears to have been well taken care of, but she was definitely used, and shows plenty of little dents and a crappy repaint for it. Beauty marks, we'll call them.
As for specifications, from the factory she was equipped with the following:
318 V8 - 2 barrel
Column Shifted A904 3 Speed TorqueFlight Transmission
Factory R6 Red with Black interior.
14'' Steel Wheels with Plymouth Center Caps.
I did find the build sheet under the front seat, but the build sheet seems to be for a Q5 on Q5 teal wagon, so I need to see whether it matches up before I delve into further specs.
Here she is 4 days after I brought her into Massachusetts:
Fender Tag:
Since May, I have done a number of projects to the Wagon, but I have also spent an awful lot of time driving her. I have put almost 2000 miles on the car since I bought it, and I have been loving every minute of it. I try to do everything within a day so that I can drive the car with every spare moment I have.
To start, I replaced the rotted, nasty ground cable with 0 gauge welding wire that comes factory in a modern Charger/300/Magnum. If you ever need to redo power wiring in a vehicle, look for one of the LX cars in the junkyard - I got the entire length of wire from a Magnum for $5 at Everett's in Brockton - enough that a future project is replacing the positive cable to the starter.
Then the car needed an inspection, which required a new windshield - the original one was cracked badly. Since 4 door and wagon B Bodies did not share the windshield of the coupe, hardtop and convertible cars, I had to track down a decent used piece, which was a process. Tiny and Son's Auto Glass in Pembroke, MA replaced the windshield for me.
After that, the car started to give me starting problems, so I replaced the factory starter with the modern Mopar mini starter found on the later Dodge Trucks - mine was spec'ed for a 93 Dakota.
With the new starter in the car, the undersized battery was just not putting out enough juice for it, so I replaced the battery with the correct size. Car starts like a dream now!
Right before the Worcester, MA Cars of Summer Car Show in July, I decided I wanted to install my Roadrunner headlight bezels that I bought for the car, so I painted the grille to match.
Unfortunately I determined that the seller had given me such a good price because they were both passenger's side bezels!
So for the Cars of Summer show, I had one Roadrunner bezel, a painted grille, and one silver Satellite bezel.
Still, it made the front page of the Cars of Summer Show coverage by this car website I read that you might have seen before:
At Carlisle, I picked up a new battery tray, one NOS and one good used taillight bezel, a Roadrunner headlight bezel, and new carpet for the car, but those items had to wait until I finished the Massachusetts bar exam.
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