October 15, 201411 yr Finally after 5 months of waiting and pestering and tracking down owners and leaving notes and stressing out i brought it home. You can see it here being moved from its grassy tomb where it has sat for the past 14 years. Yup, 14 years! Edited December 21, 201411 yr by Scooner
October 15, 201411 yr Author I think it will fit in nicely! When i get more time i'll put a full description of how me and this car came to be! Edited December 21, 201411 yr by Scooner
October 15, 201411 yr Author One day on my way back to Cheyenne from Ft Collins i was diverted onto a back road because of an accident on the interstate. As i'm driving along i just happen to notice a red second gen brat under a tree next to a house. So i take the next right onto a dirt road that leads behind this house. Behind the house in the field under another huge cottonwood sits this gold brat, and another brat a 79' parked behind a garage! So i stop in and start poking around, no answer at the door so i drove around back by the garage. The gold brat is in way better shape than i thought! The other one? Not so much it's so rotten. As i'm leaving a lady comes out and we spend the better part of an hour talking about subarus. We find keys to the gold one some guy had left there in 2000. The year i graduated high school this glorious machine was parked, wow. They didn't have the title to it but i found the owners registration in the glove box, he lived in Rawlins and i work there every so often so i figured i'd look him up. I foind the dudes house and he has not one but 3 more brats at his house! 2 gen 2 t tops and 1 gen one! After leaving this guys notes and leaving him messages on his phone i had given up after a couple months when out of the blue he calls me and we BS about subarus for an hour! Real neat guy. So eventually i talk him into selling me the title to the car, unbeknownst to the people i bought the car from. So i've worked a deal to buy this car another 79' Brat with unknown condition motor and a couple pairs of jump seats, a set of jackman wheels (13s wish they were 14s) and a bunch of other random parts. Needless to say i've always wanted a brat and now i've got one! The reason it is labeled "rescued" is because the family who owns the land were going to sell this car off to scrap alobg with everything else, if i wouldn't have come along this and the others might be getting turned in KIAs...yikes. Edited October 15, 201411 yr by Scooner
October 15, 201411 yr Awesome Find! Glad to know that it is on the Proper hands now. Keep the Photos flowing here Kind Regards.
October 15, 201411 yr Author Thanks! I'm pretty relieved, i will let the pictures flow because i know how you's people are on here about pictures!
October 15, 201411 yr NICE SAVE! Mine had been stored for 14 years as well, but in an old guys garage. That brat looks remarkably rust free for being stored outside.
October 15, 201411 yr Author I guess it was due to the dry wyoming air? This is the worst part of rust, not bad at all.
October 15, 201411 yr Not bad at all! Congrats. The more I look the more holes I find in my 1980 Brumby...
October 15, 201411 yr Author 2 questions. 1: Who the hell leaves a battery to rot a hole in the bed? 2: What kind of heathen cuts the mounts for the jump seats out?!
October 15, 201411 yr Author I just don't understand why someone would cut them out, but then again i guess if you wanted to use it as a truck you might have to? Breaks my heart, good thing i can weld as i know i can fix this.
October 15, 201411 yr Author The top of the motor looks super clean with hardly any sign of oil, almost looks like it either has low mileage or has been rebuilt at some point? Can't wait to clean it all up and try cranking it over. Of course after dropping the gas tank and cleaning out fuel lines, changing oil, spark plugs and that sort of thing. The owner said it ran amazing when parked but a CV was going out or a U joint maybe? He couldn't remember, that's why it was at these other peoples house. They were supposed to repair it in trade for work from him but the whole thing fell apart. Much to my delight.
October 16, 201411 yr Author I've actually got a full set of jackmans that came with the car i'm going to have sandblasted and then painted white, should look just right. But first i need some new tires, all of these are literally rotten from sitting so long.
October 16, 201411 yr Author Hmm my phones camera must have turned :/ bummer, i was excited to lift that dash cover and hope for no cracks (yeah right) at least the dash mat is in good shape.
October 19, 201411 yr Author Thanks bud! I cleaned out the garage today so i can get the BRAT in there along side my wifes fancy pants outback to get started on this magnificent creature!
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