1964 Buick LeSabre Estate Station Wagon aka Banana Boat & Ride on My Car Story with Lou Costabile 

The horn sounds like more of a train horn than anything. What an impressive car with outstanding workmanship and options. Great video Lou, thanks!

What a great wagon! Wagons are always special in a way and this one is so well optioned it’s extra special. Not many around like this any more. Thanks Lou and Buzz!

Lou, what a gr8 feature. Been a loooooong time since I've seen one of these - never with the wire wheel covers. 425 is pretty rare too - biggest of the Nail head design, produced from '63-'66. From the hey-day era of station wagons. 👌🏻

That was a wealthy suburban wife who drove one of these in 1964. A classic example of an American Icon. Thanks for the memories Lou!

Beautiful example. The color change and spoke wheel covers really make the car eye-catching. I personally have begun to love classic station wagons. They're pieces of "mid-century" suburban history. I remember when I was a kid in the '70's, many people began to use these to use as a hauler for construction materials and tools. They would drive them until the bodies rotted away. By the way Lou, I believe the large lamps on the front fenders were optional cornering lights.

Thank you for the share, that is one fine 64 Buick!

Buz has a real beauty there Lou! We Don't see too many like this where we live anymore

Americana at its finest. Great find Lou

Lou, good job finding this one! What a nice car! Vintage cars like this are the type I appreciate the most. I can see Camaro's and Mustangs at any show, and those do have their place, but cars like this Buick wagon, now seldom seen now are truly great and I love when they turn up.

Only on Lou's channel would you see a car as rare as this baby. Man this thing would definitely be my daily driver.

Gotta be the all time sleeper station wagon. My parents had a 64 Wildcat in the same yellow with a black vinal top and black interior and the same awesome horn. What a beautiful and Rare car. 1st I've ever heard it existed. Thanks Lou and Buzz!

I was intrigued by the IONIA body tag instead of FISHER. From what I can tell, they made some station wagon bodies for GM and others?!?!? I never realized that before.

That is an INCREDIBLY beautiful station wagon! And so many options on it too; note those power window switches! It must been a wonderful car for a lucky family back in the day. You hardly saw very many Buick station wagons like this even when they were new. Today, this is a sight to behold. This was the last full-sized Buick wagon until 1970. Thanks again Lou! Looking for more! (3/20/2022)

That was some stylin back in the day.

What a treat! I can’t remember the last time I saw a full size 64 Buick wagon…long roofs are rare to find and becoming popular again… it’s a nostalgic part of Americana..🇺🇸

Another beautiful wagon I've always loved them no matter what the make, this has nothing to do with this beauty but my aunt had a 64 Rambler wagon and us kids would go out on a Sunday picking bottles in the ditches and just throw them in the back - Gee it was great to be a kid back then 😀👍

Love this Buick. Especially like the color...just awesome. Wish car colors would be this mesmerizing again.

This is one of the reason I love watching this.I learn or see something new that I didn't know Great banana boat ( Station wagon )

I love it! What a car! I have never seen one as well optioned as this one. Ultra rare options like cornering lights, cruise, power vents etc. Fantastic! That 425 didn’t come with it but it fits perfectly. Sounds like it might need a bit of a tune? This car is one of the best you’ve ever featured! I would be afraid to take it on the road!

My first car was a 1967 Chevy Caprice Wagon, with the SS 396 engine. Many similarities to this one, so this was a wonderful trip down memory lane. Ah, the good old days!

Lou, I love this wagon. That color is awesome. I'm a huge Buick fan and still drive my 02 LeSabre daily. Thanks to you and Buzz for sharing

Another nice one from Buzz! This Buick has all the options and then some! Nothing warms up a wagon like that big ol' nailhead motor! Thanks, Lou!

Gorgeous Wagon ! Thanks for posting Lou ! It's HUGE !

A massive beauty Lou. 😈💛 Always love station wagons. We must've had at least a half dozen of them back in the day. Drive Inn Movies and Camping across the U.S. were very popular then. Great Memories, Great Cars, Great Times 😁

I stopped the video and made my comment about the 425 dual quad's and what to my surprise, you pop the hood and there it is. Great car!!!

I have always loved station wagons, although my family never owned one. What a beautiful long top, as they used to be called! Seems funny that younger people from the 1970’-1990’s balked at driving or owning a station wagon, yet today drive SUV’S. I am just a little surprised that this particular wagon didn’t come with the third rear seat. Some wagons had a pair of third seats facing one another, and others had a rear-facing third seat. These were fun, fun cars as a kid to ride in. Thanks Lou & Buzz for a great memory!

Well Lou love the variety wonderful station wagon memories for me growing up. Every baby boomer I’m sure has a station wagon story or two. I remember my father had probably a good four different ones over the years for the mercury though. But this Buick is definitely a gem. Great owner. Keep them stories coming.

OK...first off what's not to love about a guy named Buzz??? Next, this machine is so spectacular, in every way, shape and form. NEVER saw a purse holder, in all my years of attending car shows and growing up in cars like this. The dual quad Wildcat mill is the icing on this cake. Thanks for sharing. JT: Orlando FLA

I’ve seen this car in person at Buick National events, and most people just stare at that super wildcat engine with two 4 barrel carburetors. I wonder how long the muffler on that single exhaust would hold together if someone opened that baby up!! Wagons are made to haul things. This sedately beast would haul ass as well as a lot of cargo! Thanks for a great car story Lou. As usual, you bring us the very best stuff.

This is a truly classic "60"s" land yacht loaded Buick Estate wagon! I believe that Europe call's station wagons "Estate" befitting name... Thanks, Lou! this is a fun one too see..

Good morning another fine car I don't know how you find the cleanest cars but keep up the good work and I enjoy all the shows

Lou and Buzz, absolutely love it...I'm a wagon freak. Had a 1963 Buick Special Wagon...wanted a full size also. GM full size wagons up to early 70's all had the same rear seat/fold mechs. I had a 1968 Impala also. Autronic Eye.

I love that horn. That's a convoy car for sure!

I'm an estate car guy , always had them when possible , I've had an x type jag estate for the past 12 years . This thing though , what a beast , you could live in it easy , and it's got everything you could need , great colour as well , I had a yellow Ford Cortina estate back in the 80s , fun colour . Thanks for sharing this one , loved it .

Best wagon ever. Great car. Thanks guys.

my kind of cruiser lou, this one has more room than a modern truck bed, or SUV lol we need more wagons!!! thanx lou

Interesting car, I bet you could tow a good-size travel trailer.. The FM radio must be really rare as FM stations were still fairly new back then. Thanks Lou. 😉👍

Just love the GM station wagons, Thanks for showing this LeSabre, it's a gorgeous example.

Road Trip! Thanks Lou!

WOW! What a great car! Thanks, Lou! Keep those awesome videos coming, please!

This has to be the first grocery getter you featured on your channel. That's a beautiful station wagon indeed! Looks great in it's banana yellow paint job. A nice change from the muscle cars that are regularly featured. The engine sounds healthy and the car is in excellent condition.

This is a very unique station wagon. There were some things on this Buick LeSabre Estate Station Wagon that I notice are unique. One of these is a tilt steering wheel. Until this video I did not know that a tilt steering wheel option existed in 1964. Also this is the first time I have seen a purse hanger option on the dashboard. Also it was unusual to see a vehicle with a large 425 cubic inch V8 with a single exhaust pipe. Since I was born in 1951 I grew up in a family of 6 children where my parents owned a number of station wagon cars over the years.

I love this car! Beautiful! Thanks again Lou for covering all cars

Great car Lou. I agree that the yellow was a great color choice for this one. Beauty!!!

What a neat Buick wagon! Color and options are cool. Even though Buick Estate wagons went thru 1989, it was the end of an era. Caprice Classic wagon ended in 89 too.

What a GEM !!! Love it !!! I would remortgage my house that wagon.

Lol……I just finished telling a younger audience that power vent windows were only available on the higher end luxury cars. You guys just proved me wrong! Dam it

Beautiful trunk!!!(I watch a lot of off grid living. In 1980 I bought 9 passenger Plymouth Wagon(woody)as my 68 440 Charger had s blown engine. Used to fill it up with sand and do the porches/sidewalks for apt. complex. $$$🥳

What a doll. Really neat car.

Love the wagons and its a Buick !!!!! Sweet !!!!

I owned 4 1964 Buick Wildcats and 3 Buick Electra 225's. Those Wildcats were some of the fastest cars right out of the factory. Some had the 401's and some were produced with the 425's and if you were lucky enough to find the 425's with the duel quad's, 360 Hp and all kinds of torque!! One of my 1964 Buick Wildcat's I timed at 0 to 60 MPH at 5.5 seconds. You can't beat those numbers!!!

I spent a lot of time in the back of my Dad's 76 Gran Torino Station Wagon. Not quite as fancy as this, but AH, the nostalgia! Thank you Lou! ✌😷🏳️‍🌈

Very cool. Wagons are underrated. BTW: Luggage racks are where Mitt Romney thinks your pet dog should ride.

Power Windows, Power seats, factory ac on a 64 Lesabre...Hugely impressive considering those options wouldnt become commonplace for years to some...just outstanding.....

I own a 64 estate wagon and love it what he said is a storage trunk is where my spare tire and jack is located

Hi, Lou! Yep! Here it is, the "My Car Story" I've been waiting for! This big beautiful Buick is a big bright ray of sunshine in that Sun Burst Yellow 😎, especially for an avid wagon fan and historian like me! (Matches perfectly with the house, too!) Never mind the horn, I think just the car's sheer presence will warn people to get out of the way! LOL! 😀 BTW, 1964 was the last year Buick built a full-size wagon until 1970. Same story with Oldsmobile, until 1971. Not really sure exactly why the Estate Wagon and Fiesta were retired, but that was the same year Buick and Olds brought out the Sport Wagon and the Vista Cruiser, which were based on the Skylark and F-85 intermediates and were famous for their raised rear roof section with tinted glass panels. They were instantly popular, so my guess is Buick and Olds simply deemed the full-size wagons unnecessary. Also, the headlamp dimmer is called Autronic Eye. Many thanks to you and Buz for this magical cruise aboard the Banana Boat! Would love to have him aboard in our wagon club!

That wagon is awesome, great review Lou!!! Love those horns. Were those horns standard?

Wow, Lou, a four-door Buick Wagon! A few of us prefer this type of car to most sports cars. Perhaps it's because it's what we always had in the 1960s and 1970s. It has something to do with those memories, but I also prefer older and newer cars with four doors. I did go 120 mph once, but it was in a four-door wagon! Thank you for showing this fine Buick luxury machine with fins.

Rare and beautiful Buick😍 Thanks Lou!

In 1968 I was given a 1961 Pontiac Grand Safari at the age of 15. It needed some work but was in great shape Cleaned up really nice. Grey with a white top, fire engine red interior and a 389 4v. After a carb rebuild and exhaust and tires,it was ready to go. Unfortunately, I was showing some friends how fast I could go around the back of my dad’s gas station, lost control leaving the asphalt onto the crushed stone and smashed into the cement building and destroyed the whole front end. It was pretty similar looking to this car.

I far cry from my 03 lesabre celebration edition WITH the pga golf tour package, which is extremely rare! This one tho is a very cool heavily optioned car!! Purse holder! Wow! Thanks lou!

Admito que, aunque no me llaman la atención este tipo de vehículos, este Buick LeSabre Station Wagon de 1964 se lo veía bastante llamativo! Además, la manera como grabas, conversas con el propietario y llevas en general el video es muy entretenida y didáctica a la vez! Me gustó, sobretodo, su interior como se plegaban los asientos y compuertas para brindar un espacio excepcional, y su panel de instrumentos muy elegante y original. Mención especial para la radio con el logo de Buick! Ah, y por cierto, la corneta sonó horrorosa, jaja. Saludos!

Amazing car! And rare! I'm pretty sure I've never seen one in person...and I go to a LOT of car shows.

Not to many wagons been restored or preserved they been replaced by SUV or minivan glad to see one a blast from the past and this one loaded to the hilt

My Dad had 65 AMC Rambler Wagon, then a 69 Ford County Squire. I own a 2012 Cadillac cts 4 awd Ltd Luxury Edition Sportwagon, couldn't be happier. 1 of less than 200 built.

Those Ionia-built wagons were so very well made. What a beauty! Upholstery still seems low-level for a Buick.

Oh wow, great looking wagon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is just a special Buick!!

To be honest, I'd rather have this bangin' beauty than a Lamborghini! Thanks guys! Love your channel, Lou!🤟

For the entire 1964 Buick line (except Riviera), the way they integrated the grille and bumper that year only was the cleanest and neatest.

body built by A.O. Smith in Ionia Mich., the Ionia works produced automobile bodies, components, and finished vehicles for virtually all the Detroit automakers. Between 1949 and 1964, all Buick station wagon bodies were made here, more than 140,000 of them, and Olds and Pontiac wagon bodies, too. Corvette and Continental Mark II bodies were also built at Ionia, and the factory also served as the final assembly plant for Shelby Mustangs from 1968 through 1970.

I haven’t seen one of these in a blue moon. Buick didn’t make a full sized wagon from ‘65-69, so people who bought these new probably kept them for several years. You had tremendous brand loyalty in those days. I remember several people in the small town in Wisconsin where I grew up being fiercely loyal to Buicks.

Gotta love a long roof Lou, amazing video

Lou, I love your videos. Sometimes you talk over your guest and we viewers cannot hear the answers to the questions you pose. My parents drove Buicks; good cars.

Great video, Lou! Unique old car!☺️🤟🔧

My father have a 1964 oldmobile holyday s/wagon same like yours. Was the best automobile . .

Cool wagon!! you see more and more wagons at shows and auctions too!

Another great video Lou. Don't see a whole lot of Buick wagons. I seen a I believe it was a 1957 Buick at Cruising the Coast last year that was a 4 door hardtop wagon. I had only heard of those cars before. My grandma loved Buicks but I don't know I'd she ever had a Buick wagon or not.

I love my woodie , a 1991 mercury grand marquis colony park LS .

That was awesome Lou Thanks!

What a beautiful car. Back in the day this car would have had a pricey window sticket!

🍌Fully loaded Barge! Nice old classic it's nice to see station wagons to finally getting respect from The collector community that they deserve, unfortunately so many have been used and abused that they are very few survivors specimens left like this one

Yeah, the old man always bought station wagons. We had four over the years that I can remember while growing up.

Makes me think of the Donna Reed show.🙂Nice survior.

Really cool indeed! Only it needs dual exhaust to let that 425 Wildcat engine breathe better. Really nice though!

Now that's a draggin' wagon!

I had the hard-top 64 LeSabre. Bought it in 89 off the original owner for $2400 which was a lot, but it only had 56000 miles on it. Mine wasn’t fully optioned - manual windows, no a/c, but it had tilt wheel. Powered by a 300ci small-block V8.

This is a car my mom would have loved and we kids hated not because it was ugly but because it wasn't an Impala SS or GTO or WIldcat, etc. lol.

Lol, Buzz just had to have an Estate for his estate 😂

“ easy folding rear seat feature “ 👌🏼

Those 425 cu in engines were boss! We had one in a 1960 Olds wagon, Super 88, which was the high compression version. Imagine having to use premium gas in one of those seven liter, quad barrel carb engines today!

Great presentation Lou👍

Power vents, cruise, auto dimming, cornering lights and tilt !

This Buick even came with a purse-holder!

Now that's a beautiful car had a lesabre couple boy did it go

Nice piece......regarding the Autotronic Eye, I remember that GM feature to be called Twilight Sentinel (which may very well have been a reference applied solely to Cadillacs)

For those who don't think wagons are cool I present a muscle wagon. I've seen this car up close and personal, the video does it no justice. Yes power vent windows 'cuz ya know how hard it is to flip that little handle up or turn that small crank.

The electric headight dimmer on the dash is called an Autronic Eye. We had one on our '63 Caddy Deville and it was always confused by street lights.

Wagon and house match…nice

Too bad he didn't punch it, I wanted to hear those dual quads light up. What a gorgeous wagon Thanks Lou