There’s a common theme I’m seeing this week: everybody is putting up their nice rides for the winter. One look outside the window at BangShift Mid-West certainly tells the tale: the yard is the consistency of a cheesecake it’s so saturated, it’s gray and the mist coming down is giving me more than a gentle reminder of my time in the Pacific Northwest. Tis’ the time to pack them away until the sun comes back into view and the buds start to pop out on the trees again. On one hand, it sucks putting up the pretty one for a few months, but if you’re a touch demented, you’re looking forward to waking up something that’s just…plain…wrong.

Behold, the winter beater. It has to start, it has to have a heater that won’t quit, and it had better be able to take a kicking. Soggy weather should be the least of that thing’s worries. It should be ready to bash snowdrifts, take a hit from some clueless schlub in an all-wheel-drive crossover that ran out of talent and traction, and since it’s probably going to be a bit utilitarian, there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of ugly too. It keeps people away.

On the outside, it’s a 1966 Plymouth Fury I station wagon, with it’s big slab sides and it’s no-nonsense angry look up front. Underneath, it’s 1978 Ford one-ton, with the 400, a four-gear, and enough beef for most anything that doesn’t absolutely require a snowmobile..and maybe a few trails that do.

For $2,485, we can do the legwork of locating door glass for the driver’s side. We just want to see the expressions on faces as the Brady Bunch From Hell wagon comes lumbering on by!

Craigslist Link: 1966 Plymouth Fury I station wagon/1978 Ford 1-ton trar