I got a great wife. She puts up with me and she is really pretty. Can't beat that. Recently she surprised me. We (my wife and I) run a print shop 3 blocks from our home. Our next door neighbor at work is an auto shop, of which the employees constantly give me crap and I them. Carol, my wife, drives a 97 Jetta which has been a great car but is starting to look like crap and at 160 k miles will soon need the original clutch replaced. It also has a plugged up exhaust therefore big power loss, and little things like coolant leak that needs fixin. I hate working on it.

 

So my neighbor at work lives in Estes Park and his little old lady neighbor is litterally 94 years old and has had an 86 gl wagon which she bought new till two years ago when her son bought her a new volvo which she hates, and two years later is willing to let Wayne, my shop's neighbor, sell her old wagon it has 80k ORIGINAL MILES!

 

The guys next door keep razzing me hey why don 't you buy that, which I won't even bother to ask my wife cause I got 3 subarus and she is not in the mood for more.

 

Than they razzed me about it in front of my wife, and she turned to me and sid "would that work for me instead of the Jetta?" I love her.

 

So we got an 86 4wd wagon rust free for $1200. It's a beauty.

 

Congrats! I just got a 88 DL wagon in a similar fashion (old person - low miles).

 

She's a keeper (wife... well both actually)! What are your plans with your wagon?

 

rob

It'll be her daily driver, we don't have to put many miles on our cars, we walk to work.

 

I will replace the auto with a 5 speed d/r if she wants, other than that, the plan is to drive it!

That's a good deal for the mileage on it and being from a little old lady. That's got another 200k in it easily. Probably a good candidate for swapping over to synthetic.

 

Looks nice too - garaged?

 

Very nice. And I'm not one to love on the EA82's much as everyone here knows. . That would be an excelent platform for an EJ22 and 5 speed D/R. . Probably in better shape than most first gen Legacy's.

 

GD

Nice. I always wondered about the Jetta in your driveway.... (I drive by quite a lot, since I've been working Loveland and living in Ward... ugggg commute). I know the EA82's get alot of crap on here, but I still kind of like them... not that I've never had trouble with them.... I have... but I've got a '97 impreza now that's being trouble too... I kind of miss my old '89 GL (I started it up today and it runs so nice, especially after sitting for 3 months in the field... it's over at my friend's house, and he still hasn't even registered it... maybe I should take it back).

Congrats on the nice score.. Can you show us a few interior pictures so we can all cry over not know 94 yr old ladies? Like earlier post, was it garaged? Think the paint will buff out nice. Be the GL will be happy to be on the road again...