[JoeD]

It's not quite as low mileage as the '79 I was considering last year, but it's still pretty good at a documented 10,400 miles (well, now that I've driven it some, it's just turned over 11,000 miles). The car is a 1978 Town Landau, 400 V8 and C6 transmission. It's clearly been well cared for its whole life, and you could practically eat off the underside. The only rust I could find was minor surface rust where water drips off the air conditioner. A little Eastwood rust encapsulator and chassis black took care of it.

About the only problem I've run into is the fuel gauge. I'm wondering if it's stuck or if it's supposed to do this: It takes forever to start going down from FULL. In the last gas stop I made, it was showing squarely on 3/4 full, yet I could put 14.5 gallons into a 22 gallon tank. That can't be right. On the plus side, it got a solid 15.1 mpg, so now that I know the fuel economy, I'll drive it a little farther (carefully, of course, so I don't run out of gas) and see if it ever drops to empty.

Are the fuel gauges supposed to work this way? A co-worker did tell me the Chevy Blazer she used to have would take forever to go from FULL to half tank, then sank like a stone from there to empty. I have read where sometimes automakers would design the fuel gauge to do this, so it's possible that it's supposed to do this.




Thanks,
Joe