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  • speedblind

    Dec. 31, 2010 8:08 p.m. speedblind Reader

    Finally have HDT again after 8 months without. So, I DVR'd 5-6 episodes, watched 'em all at once over a handful of beers and wound up...buying a 96 Subaru Legacy Wagon for $900. 253k miles, body's in horrible shape and it looks like several people died slowly in the interior.

    Should be a fun project - it was hit in the rear at some point, and it looks like the easiest solution will be to replace the hatch. The interior is a mix of OE Subaru components, roughly 10 lbs. dog hair and right about 5 gallons of soda poured over the whole thing. Nastiness.

    Tonight was tear down. Tomorrow: cleaning and hopefully getting lucky at the junk yard. Next up is some serious sanding/paint. Then...profit?

  • Maroon92

    Jan. 1, 2011 6:36 a.m. Maroon92 SuperDork

    Who is your Ed China?

  • Rusnak_322

    Jan. 1, 2011 6:44 a.m. Rusnak_322 Reader

    You know, there is a WD marathon on right now. Looks like about 6 hours worth.

  • dean1484

    Jan. 1, 2011 8:04 a.m. dean1484 Dork

    I am thinking of the same plan with a 951 for $2800. Needs top end replaced and a brake job and the obligatory timing belt and water pump and seals. The interior is in great shape just needs some cleaning and everything appears to work. I have another head on the shelf so I figure about 2k in parts and 20-30 hours labor and I can sell it for?????? .. . . Ya .. . . .Probably a loss if you count my labor. Or I sell the 924s and keep the 951 and put about 4K in to and and 40-50 hours labor.. . . LOL I think my math is getting worse.. . . . I think we should call it "caroholic accounting"

    Why is it that the higher the fun-o-meter reads the worse the balance sheet looks.

  • internetautomart

    Jan. 1, 2011 7:49 p.m. internetautomart SuperDork

    speedblind wrote:

    Finally have HDT again after 8 months without. So, I DVR'd 5-6 episodes, watched 'em all at once over a handful of beers and wound up...buying a 96 Subaru Legacy Wagon for $900. 253k miles, body's in horrible shape and it looks like several people died slowly in the interior.

    Should be a fun project - it was hit in the rear at some point, and it looks like the easiest solution will be to replace the hatch. The interior is a mix of OE Subaru components, roughly 10 lbs. dog hair and right about 5 gallons of soda poured over the whole thing. Nastiness.

    Tonight was tear down. Tomorrow: cleaning and hopefully getting lucky at the junk yard. Next up is some serious sanding/paint. Then...profit?

    no profit in that cars future.
    I picked up a 192k altima for $600 the other night. Rusty, bad front wheel bearing, bad wiper linkage. I usually buy cars for profit and fun. This one is just so I have something reasonable to drive while I sell off the minivan which has to wait until after the insurance gives me money for it.

  • fast_eddie_72

    Jan. 1, 2011 9:27 p.m. fast_eddie_72 Reader

    I love that show, but sure wish there were some new ones. I've seen all of them (at least all they play here) at least 4 times. Still watch them though.

  • stuart in mn

    Jan. 1, 2011 9:41 p.m. stuart in mn SuperDork

    I've had the marathon all day. It's a fun show to watch but some of their fixes make me cringe, like using bondo and a can of spray paint to repair rust.

  • SyntheticBlinkerFluid

    Jan. 1, 2011 9:56 p.m. SyntheticBlinkerFluid Reader

    They need to show newer seasons, they've only showed up to 4 and there are 7 seasons. They've just been repeating what they've shown for the last year.

    On that note, that show has made me want to go out and buy a 1st Gen Lexus LS400. I love my big cars and they still look luxurious for a 15+ y.o. car.

    I've seen some websites that show that the newer 4.7L Toyota V8 heads can be swapped on to the 4.0L V8 to increase HP. I'm kinda interested.

  • a401cj

    Jan. 2, 2011 8:18 a.m. a401cj Reader

    a couple months ago there was a ton of eps up on youtube. dont know if theyve been pulled yet or not

  • m4ff3w

    Jan. 2, 2011 10:18 a.m. m4ff3w SuperDork

    Rusnak_322 wrote:

    You know, there is a WD marathon on right now. Looks like about 6 hours worth.

    Is it bad I thought you were talking about WD-40?

    I'll never understand Ed's fascination with it as a penetrating oil.

  • peter

    Jan. 2, 2011 10:20 a.m. peter New Reader

    There are still a bunch on youtube, but they're low quality, subtitled in another language, and the sound is sometimes not exactly synched. Good way to watch though.

  • SyntheticBlinkerFluid

    Jan. 2, 2011 11:48 a.m. SyntheticBlinkerFluid Reader

    Yeah, but I'm tired of watching 25 minute videos split into 5 parts. Some times one of the parts is missing and you miss part of the show.

    There needs to be a site like FinalGear that has a bunch of safe torrents to download. Because if you type in "Wheeler Dealer Torrents" on google, it gives you a bunch of generic torrent download sites that I wouldn't trust.

  • mattmacklind

    Jan. 2, 2011 1:30 p.m. mattmacklind SuperDork

    Love the show, thought they were working on a new season right now, though. I watched them all on Youtube, then finally got HD cable and an HD tv. I was watching the 928 episode and was like, damn that new paint does look good.

    Cool doc on today about the Mille Miglia.

  • speedblind

    Jan. 2, 2011 10:21 p.m. speedblind Reader

    internetautomart wrote:

    speedblind wrote:

    Finally have HDT again after 8 months without. So, I DVR'd 5-6 episodes, watched 'em all at once over a handful of beers and wound up...buying a 96 Subaru Legacy Wagon for $900. 253k miles, body's in horrible shape and it looks like several people died slowly in the interior.

    Should be a fun project - it was hit in the rear at some point, and it looks like the easiest solution will be to replace the hatch. The interior is a mix of OE Subaru components, roughly 10 lbs. dog hair and right about 5 gallons of soda poured over the whole thing. Nastiness.

    Tonight was tear down. Tomorrow: cleaning and hopefully getting lucky at the junk yard. Next up is some serious sanding/paint. Then...profit?

    no profit in that cars future.
    I picked up a 192k altima for $600 the other night. Rusty, bad front wheel bearing, bad wiper linkage. I usually buy cars for profit and fun. This one is just so I have something reasonable to drive while I sell off the minivan which has to wait until after the insurance gives me money for it.

    I don't know about a 200k mile Altima, but a good-running Subaru has value regardless of miles. Last year I sold a 200k+ mile Legacy of the same year for $1,600. And it had a junk engine. So, I'd bet I can throw a couple hundred bucks at this and come out OK.

  • internetautomart

    Jan. 2, 2011 10:48 p.m. internetautomart SuperDork

    different areas, different values I guess. I bought a 99 forester for $800 with average miles and a bad motor back in august. Edmunds valued it at 1500-2k with a good motor.
    Not sure what the car sold for in the end (a title flipper bought it off me as usual).

  • Nitroracer

    Jan. 2, 2011 11:52 p.m. Nitroracer SuperDork

    I found a good link for seasons 5 through 8, its downloading at a pretty good clip.

    https://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=wheeler+dealers+series

 
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