The late model 94-96 Buick Estate Wagon with the LT1 is one of those oddball classics that combines a tremendously comfortable ride for 8 people with a Corvette amount of horsepower and torque. Today’s example has a wild paint job from a few decades ago that appears to be fading/peeling and is in need some […]
An ill-running (but driveable) Roadmaster isn’t an uncommon thing (the DT Roadmaster would occasionally have optispark or fuel or whatever issues that would come and go), but one with the proper 5.7 LT1 V8 and woodpaneling offered for less than $0.50 per pound…that’s a good deal. Find this 1996 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon offered for […]
The Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon was one of the last truly honest American wagons, built on a full-size GM platform with rear-wheel drive, a V8 up front, and room for just about everything except subtlety. Powered by the LT1 and riding on hardware shared with the Impala SS and Caprice, these wagons became unlikely enthusiast […]
Who ya gonna call collect? Step aside, Cadillac Ecto-1 —there’s a new ghost-chasing whip in town, and it shops exclusively on Temu. Build as a Buick LeSabre Estate “Ecto-1” Tribute, a glorious collision between funeral home practicality and dollar-store paranormal enthusiasm. This thing started life as a dignified hearse, but somewhere along the line someone […]
If there’s ever been a car that screams “retirement community chic,” it’s a final generation Buick Roadmaster wagon slathered in a shade of beige so uninspiring it should come with a complimentary AARP card. Add the faux wood paneling, and you’ve basically got a rolling dining-room hutch with a V8 under the hood. But here’s […]
This next car was built back in 1996 when Tupac was still alive, Bill Clinton was still president, and GM was still cranking out rear-wheel-drive, body-on-frame dinosaurs for suburban dads who secretly wanted to live like Smokey and the Bandit. It is a majestic blue whale: a final-year Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon, woodgrain delete from […]
The Buick Roadmaster name was first used in 1931 but fell into oblivion after the 1958 model year. It was revived in 1990 as a full-sized dinosaur station wagon that defied all convention in a time when everybody was downsizing and building unibody things. In 1994, the Buick Roadmaster got a massive powerplant upgrade when […]
Part of the appeal of this next car is that it is entirely unassuming. It really looks the part of a mid-80s family wagon with some 2-barrel carb fed V8 from the era of no-fun. At least when it’s air ride suspension is at normal height. The interior is also some stock sweet muppet skin […]
This next classic wagon might remind you of Buick’s “sporty” SportWagon from the 1960s, but the Estate Wagon was a gigantic thing built on the full-sized LeSabre chassis. Power comes from a 455 cubic inch (7.5 liter) V8 engine that can barely push around the 5000 lb beast. Find this 1970 Buick Estate Wagon offered […]
The 1965-1967 Buick Special was an intermediate sized thing built on the body-on-frame platform known internally at GM as the A-body, shared with the Skylark, Chevelle, Cutlass, and LeMans. If you find one of these cool wagons with the raised roof with the vista windows, it is known as a SportWagon, but without the crazy glass roof panels it just a Special. Find this 1967 Buick Special Wagon offered for $18000 in Scottsbluff, NE via craigslist. Tip from Rock On!