Subaru 1982 wagon

First posted July 14, My brother called me one day with the news that the roommate of a good friend was selling a car and would I be subaru 1982 wagon Somehow word had apparently spread that I seemed to consider buying anything and everything for sale…In actuality I had been complaining about having to deal with snow chains in the mountains on the few occasions that I actually went, subaru 1982 wagon, and the car for sale was a 4WD Subaru…. It was located in San Jose — about an hour away. When we arrived we were directed to the carport in which it sat.

Welcome back! I guess if we were continuing with the clever alliterative names for things I would call this Wagon Wednesday. Actually, you know what? Screw it; I am calling it that. One of them is even four-wheel-drive!

Subaru 1982 wagon

You won't find any Subaru s in U-Wrench yards these days I haven't seen a discarded since the early s , but I still find plenty of Malaise-Era Subarus from the period during which they were mocked for their small size in novelty songs. Here's a seriously loaded by earlys standards Subaru Leone four-wheel-drive wagon, found last fall in a yard just south of Denver. Back in those days, Subaru USA just called this car "the Subaru" and used the trim levels as confusing model names. There was the base model with no name, the mid-grade DL, and the high-end GL. Four-wheel-drive was optional on Subarus at this point, though nearly all Colorado buyers paid for this feature. Unlike later all-wheel-drive systems with center differentials, this setup was true four-wheel-drive, which would tear up your tires or worse if you drove for too long on dry pavement with 4WD engaged. This proved very confusing for many owners of these cars as well as those with four-wheel-drive-equipped Toyota Tercels and Honda Civics , a bit later in the decade. Check out the controls for the extremely rare dealer-installed air conditioning! This car has everything. By far the coolest optional feature on this car is the rare "third eye" center-mounted driving light, which lives behind this flip-up panel in the center of the grille and was actuated via a dash-mounted switch. Did I buy the entire grille and third-eye assembly, for installation as a ceiling-mounted work light in my garage? You bet I did! With just over , miles on the clock, this car appears to have been very well cared-for during its life. There's a bit of rust in the usual spots, but nothing too severe by the standards of a nearyear-old Japanese car.

Bumpy, buzzy, loud and leaky never could get the oil pressure switch to stop dripping …it ate clutch pressure plates, but it never let me down and always got me where I was going in one piece.

The Subaru Leone is a compact car produced by the Japanese car manufacturer Subaru from to It was released as a replacement for the Subaru and was the predecessor of the Subaru Impreza. All Leones were powered by the Subaru EA boxer engine. Most cars were equipped with optional four-wheel drive. At the time of its introduction, the Leone was Subaru's top model until , when the larger Legacy was introduced. Although released in Japan and some export markets as the Leone, for many years, this was the only vehicle sold internationally by Subaru where the smaller kei cars Rex , Vivio , R-2 , , and Sambar were not commonly sold.

Image: classiccarsofthe80s. Unfortunately I have no shots of my Subaru. Growing up, our family spent a lot of time in station wagons. My generation X may have been the last one to be raised in true station wagons; we came directly before the minivan explosion. Before Chrysler unleashed the Caravan on America, the RWD wagon was still respectable, held a ton of suitcases, Christmas presents, two kids and a dog, and could be counted on to make it through the high snow in Pennsylvania on December 24th. Image: Stationwagonfinder. I did not know this website existed before today. Image: gtcars. We had this until the gas prices got high again in the early 80s.

Subaru 1982 wagon

First posted July 14, My brother called me one day with the news that the roommate of a good friend was selling a car and would I be interested? Somehow word had apparently spread that I seemed to consider buying anything and everything for sale…In actuality I had been complaining about having to deal with snow chains in the mountains on the few occasions that I actually went, and the car for sale was a 4WD Subaru…. It was located in San Jose — about an hour away. When we arrived we were directed to the carport in which it sat. Looking at it from the back it looked OK, just a small dent below the 4WD badge and a cracked taillight. The left side had some minor scuffs but the right side had a fairly mangled front fender. The roommate just wanted it gone. And now I had what can fairly be described as an old car with a lot of miles on it. In this case a low price, 4WD and being a wagon were huge positives.

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My Brat was a DL with the 1. Notify me of new posts by email. Half wore out under the burden of many off road excursions and a lead foot, the other half were totaled in accidents, all of which I walked away from uninjured. At the same time, it meant Subaru's withdrawal from the small truck market. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. A new 1. Subaru broke this pattern by introducing a mass-produced four-wheel drive passenger car, after having tested the waters by building a limited series of four-wheel drive FF-1 G wagons in Posted July 16, at AM. Subaru , a division of Fuji Heavy Industries , vehicle timeline — — next ». I owned two of those, a base Uno and its derivative Elba 4 door station wagon, for 16 years. Always liked these DLs. Two or so hours later he appeared at the rest stop in the company wrecker, and I spent an uncomfortably quiet ride back to the Subaru with him to pull it out.

You won't find any Subaru s in U-Wrench yards these days I haven't seen a discarded since the early s , but I still find plenty of Malaise-Era Subarus from the period during which they were mocked for their small size in novelty songs. Here's a seriously loaded by earlys standards Subaru Leone four-wheel-drive wagon, found last fall in a yard just south of Denver.

In other projects. X Sign in to post Please sign in to leave a comment. I got it when it was around 6 yrs old. Title: Car Styling Quarterly. The big reason Subaru could get away with it was the AWD draw. All Rights Reserved. There is something about this generation of Subie that appeals to me. Very nice. Cool car. Functional cookies Functional cookies Always active The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Very weird but interesting concept. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. Since then I have rebuilt the carburetor, replaced a muffler, and done normal maintenance hoses, belts, plugs etc. But because it was so small and a stick and this was before the time of airbags and safety, it zipped along quickly for its age and condition.