1967 220 - "Do you want another Amazon?"

[Jack]

Earlier this year I was driving my 66 122 right after installing my SUs. I pulled over because they weren't adjusted correctly. Just a random stop next to the highway, about 12 miles from my house, driven by it 100s of times.
As I am leaving a middle aged man pulls over and asks me
"Do you want another Amazon?"
umm yes what do you got?
"I got two I want to get rid of, just down the road from here."

exchanged phone numbers and few weeks later I came home with a 1963 sedan and 1967 wagon, both M41 cars. Wagon has a late model B20, ipd bars, NO RUST, smooth roof, few other NOS stuff not installed yet

63 was in terrible condition, rust everywhere and it was used a "rally farm car for few years"
67 previous owner bought it Washington, drove it up and down California, one day as he was crossing a bridge his right front tire blew....

63


B18 from the 67 was now in the sedan


how I first saw it - looks great - wait








got her home on my birthday


interior


start of disassembly






driver side is damaged - Lower CA bent and almost punctured the pan. Wheel is pushed back pretty far. It will all have to come out


you can see how much pushed back it is. Luckily the damage stops at the firewall


stored it like this for few months



repaired the rear bumper and did SOME dent repair














**********instert picture of repaired bumper and painted side *************



few days ago






**********insert picture of bent up engine cross member, replaced door, donor front end *******

[matt b]

Man, that must have been a scary experience for the owner when that tire blew. The blue 65 2 door I had in KY had a bent cross member, I found a metal fab shop to straighten it and was able to push the frame rails back into position when re-installing it. I'm thinking yours is FUBAR.

Are you crushing the 63 ?

[Canuck]

Nice find. I've wanted a wagon for years but none have followed me home...yet.

[JohnMc]

That's kind of how I got my PV. I was driving my beat and rusted to hell 1800E to work and someone saw it and asked if I liked old Volvo's, he had one in his back yard he was thinking about getting rid of. So I went to look at it, and $700 later I had a derelict PV.

[R32RennSport]

The transmissions and that front nose piece was worth it alone. Some good scores there! It's hard to say no to stuff like that, especially if you have the space. I'm trying not to become one of those guys but I can see it pretty easy to go down that path.

[Jack]

I had some time to finally work on this. Weather was awesome and James M came over to help out

removed this panel




drilled out all the spot welds
ended up with this - will have to do the same to the other side since it's pushed forward at the steering box


cutout the bent up part



slowly pealing away the panel to be replaced




done for today


I have two donor fronts. One is an early model - no rust. The other is late.

early model front


late



time to build a jig so I can measure this out

[BillyMaysHere]

oooh excited to see said jig. i freaking love jigs. i mean a ton of things are really jigs when you think about it. shoes? perhaps

[matt b]

Very cool Jack! Backyard body man, props!

[dl242gt]

When a friend of mine crashed her 66 amazon wagon into a suburban. She had a body shop repair it. She was well off and wanted her car fixed. Since she hit them from behind the cost was all on her. They did a nice job repairing it. It cost a bit over 9k to repair her car.

Looks like it's going well! That's a huge job and you do nice work, too.

[cwdodson88]

Holy crap, how do I get a copy of that frame diagram from you?

[hiperfauto]

http://www.volvoamazonpictures.se/do...65_122body.pdf

[2turbotoys]

Wow, I love that wagon, glad it is getting saved! Nice work so far.

[Old Iron]

Great project! Where did you find the drawing?

[hiperfauto]

Originally Posted by cwdodson88

Holy crap, how do I get a copy of that frame diagram from you?

Originally Posted by Old Iron

Great project! Where did you find the drawing?

Originally Posted by hiperfauto

http://www.volvoamazonpictures.se/do...65_122body.pdf

[Old Iron]

Originally Posted by hiperfauto

Nice great post!

[Jack]

I hardly touched this in months!

earlier in the week...

thought I was just going to replace the driver side firewall forward but upon closer inspection (and after I started to drill parts off) I noticed that the passenger side is a bit off too (front of axle)...

It came to me that it would be just easier to replace both sides and use the frame rails as a guide to get things back in place

donor - in the middle of removing the strengthening bracket


crappy picture - but this should give you an idea ... I still have to clean it up.

[R32RennSport]

You are much much more ambitious then me sir. Looking forward to updates.

[Jack]

Originally Posted by matt b

Man, that must have been a scary experience for the owner when that tire blew. The blue 65 2 door I had in KY had a bent cross member, I found a metal fab shop to straighten it and was able to push the frame rails back into position when re-installing it. I'm thinking yours is FUBAR.

Are you crushing the 63 ?

I wish I saved the picture of it .. it was twisted
63 lives on in parts only

Originally Posted by Canuck

Nice find. I've wanted a wagon for years but none have followed me home...yet.

Originally Posted by JohnMc

That's kind of how I got my PV. I was driving my beat and rusted to hell 1800E to work and someone saw it and asked if I liked old Volvo's, he had one in his back yard he was thinking about getting rid of. So I went to look at it, and $700 later I had a derelict PV.

like flies to ****

Originally Posted by R32RennSport

The transmissions and that front nose piece was worth it alone. Some good scores there! It's hard to say no to stuff like that, especially if you have the space. I'm trying not to become one of those guys but I can see it pretty easy to go down that path.

what do you mean one of THOSE guys ? the one who has all the _____ cars and parts, his first wife left and now sees his kids 1/2 the time? or the guy who has 14+ cars and none are ever fixed 100% and if he has few less than his life wouldnt revolve around fixing cars no one cares about ?
or the guy who has all the cars and parts and is finally getting help/support from his partner to get them done ?
what are you IMPLYING - oddly specific there

tiny portion of what I haz - Gf organized and told me to hang the og posters in my office

Originally Posted by BillyMaysHere

oooh excited to see said jig. i freaking love jigs. i mean a ton of things are really jigs when you think about it. shoes? perhaps

it wont be complicated, probably just 4x4 tubing tacked to the frame rails

Originally Posted by matt b

Very cool Jack! Backyard body man, props!

Thank you, I always wanted one of these.

Originally Posted by dl242gt

When a friend of mine crashed her 66 amazon wagon into a suburban. She had a body shop repair it. She was well off and wanted her car fixed. Since she hit them from behind the cost was all on her. They did a nice job repairing it. It cost a bit over 9k to repair her car.
Looks like it's going well! That's a huge job and you do nice work, too.

Thank you, I can see how 9k can easily go into fixing one of these. good paint alone is starting at 5k

Originally Posted by 2turbotoys

Wow, I love that wagon, glad it is getting saved! Nice work so far.

Thanks. hopefully I'll have it rolling soon...

Originally Posted by Old Iron

Nice great post!

facepalm

Originally Posted by R32RennSport

You are much much more ambitious then me sir. Looking forward to updates.

thanks, I bet if you had the room you would too take on projects like this...
It's really just out of boredom and to see if I can ... this is my latest Achilles Heel

weather is nice today so I did this

why I chose to cut off the passenger side, doesn't seem like much but the whole opening was off




fender off


frame cut off

[Cwazywazy]

Cool project. Impressive. What's the dealio on that there Ford?

[Jack]

Originally Posted by Cwazywazy

Cool project. Impressive. What's the dealio on that there Ford?

Thanks.
Ford - 1965 falcon country squire ran when parked. straight 6 manual. Im undecided what to do with it. I just need a little more time OK OK !
(it's been like 8 years)

later I spent some time cleaning up the donor piece


give's you an idea how I strip the floors off

[James M]

Make sure it gets tagged with a threats against the lives of all 7/9s before it goes back together

[vwbusman66]

Bump

[Jack]

Waiting on sand blasting, weather and other projects

[Jack]

My friend who owns a powdercoating place was super short handed... I have been helping him out for the last moth. I now basically can get anything I want done there for free

blasted my front end after putting in the oven to crystalize everything (makes is easier to blast, we use iron media)

220 front and along with my LR bulkhead


fully stripped


primed in weld though primer, will be working on this soon

[cwdodson88]

NICE WORK!!!

Noticed when you did the paint touchup on the rear wing/mudguard area that you "hard" masked it. Just a note, or something to try in the future when doing spot touchups like that, try soft making it. Take your tape, and fold it in half then outline the area and stick your paper over it. This leaves the adhesive side up at the edge of the new paint>old paint and it will slightly roll away as you paint, leaving a soft blended edge that is easier to buff.