I stopped at a Discount Tire in Colorado Springs, and got setup with quite possibly the worst all seasons I've ever owned, but only thing close to the original 215 75 15s. If you look closely at the front right tire - it turns out it was a 26 year old mismatch to the rest of the set (my fault not noticing before). She's an original disc brake model and luckily no significant issues up or down. Went down to Colorado Springs, spent the morning in Garden of the Gods and took the car up the Pikes Peak toll road. Decided to stick southish to avoid winter weather (or so I hoped). Got back to the car on a Friday, and had 11 days to get back home. Will definitely make it to AZ scrapyards and a 66 proper adventure another year. Wasn't the fun answer, but likely the smart one. With 2 days left to get to CA and 800 miles+ to go, I punted and ended up going back to denver and flying out to LA for the week. Terrible photo of it, but it definitely wasn't long for this world. Looks like a prior owner had welded these 2 pins on at somepoint. Sadly, could only get a hold of a 1970 or later rag joint, so needed to file the column out to accept the 2 big pin setup. Coming down, popped a steering coupler, and limped it on the bolts to Silverthorn - ~45miles and 6k feet closer to sea level. Spent a day waiting on parts, and another day putting them in. From there, headed west and up an additional 6k feet to winter park CO. Got to visit Fort Collins, catch up with friends with fantastic coffee!, and take a day trip up to Mishiwaka. Took a few days to get a temp plate, since I timed everything poorly. Grabbed a load of tools, fluids and spares, knew I had AAA with a 200 mile tow, and figured worst case, rent a uhaul w/ car dolly to get it back. Colorado allows for a 30 day out of state temp tag, so I had planned on taking a road trip out to CA, spending a week out there for work, and a week+ to make it back to Massachusetts. Car was way rougher than the photos I was sent suggested. First post is mostly the road trip back, second post will have most of the poor work until now.įound a 67 out in CO, looks like it's had a series of owners with varying takes on quality work. I've posted most of whats up to date on a station wagon specific forum, but what I'm doing to it shortly isn't quite the restoration they're looking for. Found one in CO, flew in from Boston, and after a few delays and more than one change in plans, brought it back home after an epic 4500 miles. TLDR: Had been looking for a 67 for the better part of a year, but nothing really lined up.

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