Here is my 1995 Ford Crown Victorian.
A friend of mine gave me this car since he
wasn't using it. It had been sitting for a
year so we had to chase out the mice and
replace the battery. Once we had it running
we drove it (slowly) to my house. There was
a leak in the rear brakes somewhere. I went
ahead and cleaned up the car, detailed it
inside and out.

To get the brakes fixed I filled up the master
cylinder and slowly drove it down the street
to a local shop to have them fixed. They only
needed to replace the one line going to the
rear axle.

The Frame on this car was shot. Rusted right in
half on the passenger side. Turns out that this
is the year model that the air conditioner drips
right on the frame and causes eccessive rust. We
screwed a block of wood into the frame to hold it
together.

The cassette deck in this car still worked great
so I got to break out my old mixed tapes.

The gas tank started leaking from all of the
rust. Right from the seam so you can't repair
it easily.

The gas tank had a small leek in it, so I was
constantly trying to seal it up. I tried paint,
tapes, and glues. Eventually I got enough money
saved up to just replace the tank with a new one.

The frame on this Vic was rusted clean through on the
passenger side. This model year had the issue where
the air conditioner would leak onto the frame and cus
the frame to rust.

For the time being we jammed a block of wood
between the rusted frame and the body and then
used a giant wood screw to secure the frame in place.

We looked around to see if we can get the frame repaired
or replaced but no one wanted to do it and no one could
find a donor frame.

I even came up with a way to patch the frame
by building a sub frame to weld to whats
left of the old frame.

Patching the frame never happened since the cars starter
died one weekend. To replace the starter that weekend
would of cost $160 (at local parts stores) but if I
ordered a starter online it would only cost $60. Plus
we would have to remove the air conditioning pump just

So I went car shopping and bought a new car that
same weekend.

We did try to sell the car as a parts car but that was
more of a hassle than anything else I've tried to sell.
We got messages from all sorts of idiots, asking "does
it run?" it says right in the listing that it doesn't
run and is being sold as a parts car.

After a few months of trying to sell it we gave
up and scraped the car. Sucks, since it would of
been a nice car if the frame was fixable.