Blue Wagon

chapter one: Tazeim

"what about this?"
"No." I have already told my brother that fifty times today.
" what about this?" He holds up a rock with dried mud leftover.
" No," i Replied as i looked at that disgusting ‘treasure’, as he calls it.
" what about this?" I looked up from my basket of laundry. He was pointing to his chest. For good luck, he wore a pendant that strapped around a brown bag that laid against his scrawny, eight-year-old chest. In it was lucky sand from the beach.
I sighed. " No Zavhariah."
" oh, Come on Tazeim." He puffed out his lips and his eyes grew, creating the puppy-dog face. " This was from Aunty Miriam." I had to agree, Aunty Miriam gave people gifts that would make you feel guilty if you traded it for something. But this was different. We were moving to a new town. in America. Not Portugal. We had to hide our identities. All of the villagers and caravans had to.
" I promise you it will be fun," I tried my best to urge him," Now put it in our trunk. Mami is waiting for us outside. Papi is with Saphire and Finnie." they were the horses that carried our traveling wagon.
I could tell he didn’t want to, I did not want to leave either. but it was because all of the gypsies are being kicked out of the country. Now we are ready. Now lets start our new lives in a place called Massachusetts.

I really liked the names and basis is good so far keep up the good work.

I showed my son a clip of it & he just looked at it as if to say what is that all about …for those that remember it appreciate your answers & sneaky snake & Judge did the safe cross code thing It wasn;t as it there was any choice on RTE back then & I was very young but after seeing a youtube video today of it brought it all back..

Oh, I do! I loved it … and Bosco. Mind you, I’ve seen Bosco recently, and think it’s no wonder that my mother told me he was dead …

My dad bought a Pontiac Safari in the seventies. My brother hates station wagons to this day b/c of it. I thought it was cool at the time, but I was a kid. We actually packed 1500 pounds of split firewood into that sucker once. My sister had a wreck it, and there was nothing more than a scratch on it — the other car was totaled. We called it "the tank."

How ’bout you ? Ever had one in the family ? If so, how ’bout a cool story ?

I love, love, love station wagons!!!! I’m serious! I’ve had three, and I’ve only owned seven cars in my life. They’ve all been GM midsizers, a ‘78 Pontiac Lemans, an ‘85 Buick Century and the current one, which is a ‘90 Olds Cutlass Cruiser which I’ve been happily driving since 2000. They’ve all been named Bucky, and it has suited each to a T. None of them has ever stranded me or let me down. I love them immeasurably. I don’t know what I’m going to do when this one dies, besides cry. There is no car in the world that I love as much as I do these particular wagons. If I were suddenly rich I would start seeking them out, all across the country. I’d bring them home and treat them nice and live happily, knowing that I would never truly have to die alone.

Pretty much like this:
http://www.cars-directory.net/history/oldsmobile/cutlass_cruiser/

Oh and, by the way, it’s a little known fact that station wagons are just pickup trucks in disguise. Can’t you just hear "Redneck Girl" in the background now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5brntYzVsk

Incidentally, I grew up in VWs, including these gems:
http://www.vdubcampers.co.uk/pages/forsale.htm
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Mogipbob#p/u/4/LN7tLj1Tn4c

Okay, sorry, I couldn’t help myself . . .

It’s probably what makes wagons look so good . . .

My mechanic told me that I had a 1977 F 60 engine out of a station wagon. I tried looking it up but didn’t know where to start. The engine is in my 71 Ford Torino. Could someone tell me where to look that up online or any suggestions on a better engine?

The F60 is a 351 out of a truck not a station wagon.

I want to throw a carnival party for some kids, where can I rent a cotton candy stand here in Riyadh? Or a corn stand?

You can rent a Cotton Candy and a Popcorn wagon for SR600 from "Alfozan" by calling one of these numbers
0508161595
0556852112
012709124

My aunt has 1994 Volvo Station Wagon(not sure of the model). She bought it used and uses it to get back and forth from the horse farm she goes to and my uncle uses it to get his surfboard to the beach. Both places are no that far from their house.

The car will have over 200,000 miles as far as I know, but the car is in great shape, just a few dings and dents on the exterior thats all.

Do you think that it will make a good car to get to and from college about an hour away. I live in NJ by the way.

It should be 4-door, 4-cyls, not sporty. I would prefer Honda or Toyota… First time drivers usually have much more expensive car insurance, and it depends from car. You should compare insurance rates while choosing the car - for example here - carinsurance.deep-ice.com

I am planning on buying an exhaust system for my 2006 WRX wagon. When it says that I am buying an exhaust system, does that mean I need to buy other things to go along with it? Please help?

you will need a muffler if not included in the exhaust system and you will need all the right sized muffler clamps to hold the exhaust system together.

I have a 1957 Ford Ranchwagon and the front end pops when i turn or hit a bump. i want to get a total front end rebiuld kit. what is a good price for one and should i do it myself or take it to a shop?

if you price all the parts individually you may be able to rebuild the front end for cheaper than the kit but a kit will have all necessary hardware and instructions. and I would say do it your self it’s actually pretty easy on the old cars and will probably take you about two weekends to get the job done.

My mother has an (you guessed it!) ‘01 Volvo XC70 Cross Country wagon with the Geartronic manumatic tranny and AWD. Aside from the various electrical bugs that keep popping up, it seems that Volvo (or Ford maybe) decided that delicate operations such as check the automatic transmission fluid are best left to the elite personnel at the Volvo dealerships. I searched every inch of the engine compartment, and even crawled underneath to see what little I could of the tranny itself. I even betrayed my masculine imperitive and…gulp…checked the owners manual. And even that told me nothing. Oil dipstick? Check. Coolant? Check. Power steering, brake fluid, washer fluid? Check. No ATF dipstick. I even mentioned it to a guy at a garage when we were talking. "Oh, sure, it’s there somewhere. Here, I’ll show ya!" he says, before proceeding to search high and low for the next quarter hour, only to finally admit defeat.
So, is there some wise and learn’d person out there who knows the answer to the great mystery of How To Make Sure Your Volvo Tranny Isn’t About To Commit Hara-kiri? If so, I would be most grateful to you. And so on and so forth. Seriously, I can’t imagine a sealed automatic trans. Hell, I can’t imagine a tranny you can’t check/top off the fluid of either. So much for what I knew.
So when the car is 15, or 20 years old, I’ll still have to find a special shop and pay $150 bucks to check the ATF? Sweet. That really sucks for the car companies, huh? Now everyone without a brand new, under warranty car is screwed. I thought it was bad enough that they engineer them to die by 100,000 miles. Not that it matters to them. They wouldn’t want to have to PAY any of that warranty crap. For those lucky enough to have it. Any wonder that car companies in general are going under? Ethically, they’re not all that much better than the tobacco companies. Screw the poor dude….I got profit margins to make. I mean, taxes on three beachside properties in three cities gets pretty steep. I may have to put of my third vacation this year. Damn, why does life have to be so hard.

the fluid level is checked by using special equipment for adding trans fluid and a scanner to determine proper transmission fluid temperature. You can’t do it yourself.

You don’t need to check the level unless you are leaking fluid. This keeps shadetree mechanics and untrained jiffy lube techs and even owners of the vehicle with the best of intentions from topping off the fluid with the wrong stuff and ruining a perfectly good transmission.

am searching for station wagons and want to know where the best place to find a good used model? i am leaning towards ford, but volvo is considered to be better?

Try this http://www.stationwagon.com/ hope it helps ya