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I see your frozen front wheels and raise you frozen rear wheels. Rolled when parked 120-130 1968

Sold this '68 wagon some years ago. Buyer never came to get it. Now he wants it, and I say to the car good riddance. It's a parts car with a wasted body wasted engine, automatic... gah. I didn't realize how awful it was until I got it.

Issue is, it's in our back yard, behind a chain link fence, and there's about 3" to spare on either side of the gate, so it's very touchy getting it out of where it is. Secondly, I think they guy wants to tow it on a dolly.

Well, I went out to prepare the car today, make it easy to push out of it's living quarters. Aired up the tires, emptied out the parts I want to keep.

Damn rear wheels are locked. I can barely move one of them with a lug wrench, the other, not even that. My first thought was handbrake, but it was, and always has been off. Even so, I disconnected the cable, and both cables seem to move freely in their sleeves.

I do not have a puller to pull the drums even if I wanted to (and I don't), and even if I did have a puller.. if it is the brakes, getting the drum off stuck shoes would be an even bigger problem than the tapered axle issue.

Last time the car was moved was about 8 years ago, by means of pushing by hand. Car ain't run in probably 20 years. I doubt it's had working hydraulics in 18 years.

Is there something I could be missing here? something unique about a '68 with the dual circuit? I sure can't think of anything. It's a dry climate in Colorado and I've dealt with cars that sat in fields way longer than this (on a concrete slab) and never had a problem.

Driveshaft is disconnected at the axle.

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-Matt I ♥ my ♂






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New I see your frozen front wheels and raise you frozen rear wheels. Rolled when parked [120-130][1968]
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