This is a great post. A friend and I just liberated a very similar 74 2 door GL from an abandoned junkyard outside of Fairbanks, AK. The tags expired in 1988, so it's been sitting for nearly 20 years. It has a thick coating of grime, a busted back window, and moss coated carpeting. Surprisingly the tires held air, even the one that had several bicycle tire patches on the sidewall. One of the rear brakes was seized up, so we removed the shoes in order to tow it home on a car dolly. The body is in very good shape, with only a couple of minor dings and hardly any rust, even after all those harsh Fairbanks winters sitting under snow. Even more shocking is that after putting in a battery, a universal fuel pump with a line going to a gas can, rapping on the starter a couple of times and squirting some GumOut in the carb, it turned over and started right up. It idles fine, but stalls when the throttle is opened.
I'm curious where you got the shiny new rear brake parts. I've been searching around but can only locate the shoes. Does anyone know of a good source or even part numbers for the whole drum assembly? Or for that matter, a good source for old Subaru parts in general?
I'll attach some pics of the dirty little beast as it looks out in front of the house right now.
Thanks for the post!
Zeb
