urabusturbo
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My buddy hooked me up with his old 93 lego wagon for 200 bucks last week. i thought it would make a great beater till spring. It had a freshly expired sticker and some rust in the rear quarters, the cv's clacked pretty bad too. I figured this was all pretty minor stuff that could be fixed for cheap. The first day i had it i spent all day cleaning it out. It was nasty and took a long time to make it decent inside. By Sunday it has a bitchin two tone primer paint job, my old turbo seats, and a k&n intake. It ran great and looked 100 times better than it did.
On its maiden voyage on sunday i managed to get pullled over and warned about the sticker by one of scarboroughs finest who thought it necessary to search my car with no probable cause. I didn't get any tickets but the whole experience was pretty ridiculous. On Monday i finally get the car into a garage to begin working on it. I bought some new axles and all the redneck bodywork gear ( sheetmetal/bondo/greatstuff) we got started on the bodywork and after a bit of cleaning up it became obvious that the rust was far worse than expected. After a few hours of that i got the front end jacked up and tried to take off the axle nuts. The impact gun didn't work, then the big impact gun didn't work, then the torch and big gun didn't work.....F... even with a 3/4 inch breaker bar and four foot extension on the nut that was glowing hot it wouldn't budge. Now i am thinking this plan isn't going to work. Had i spent this time and money on my t-leg i could have been much better off. Lesson learned i guess, don't buy any more rusty 200k+ legacy's ever. im only out about 300 bucks but the whole experience pisses me off.
On its maiden voyage on sunday i managed to get pullled over and warned about the sticker by one of scarboroughs finest who thought it necessary to search my car with no probable cause. I didn't get any tickets but the whole experience was pretty ridiculous. On Monday i finally get the car into a garage to begin working on it. I bought some new axles and all the redneck bodywork gear ( sheetmetal/bondo/greatstuff) we got started on the bodywork and after a bit of cleaning up it became obvious that the rust was far worse than expected. After a few hours of that i got the front end jacked up and tried to take off the axle nuts. The impact gun didn't work, then the big impact gun didn't work, then the torch and big gun didn't work.....F... even with a 3/4 inch breaker bar and four foot extension on the nut that was glowing hot it wouldn't budge. Now i am thinking this plan isn't going to work. Had i spent this time and money on my t-leg i could have been much better off. Lesson learned i guess, don't buy any more rusty 200k+ legacy's ever. im only out about 300 bucks but the whole experience pisses me off.
