Survivor 1971-76 GM Clamshell Station Wagons! Chevy, Pontiac Safari, Oldsmobile, & Buick Estate! 

we had the whole caprice kings wood estate concours estate wagons from 71 to 74 in the family at one time we had vega, 2 chevellle concours with the wood trim a impala and 2 caprices all at once then the gas crisis hit

@@rsprockets7846 Gas crisis. That sure sucked!

@@aaronwilliams6989 yeah read about it oct 1973 first gas crisis because war with Israel and the OPEC nations rose petro prices and caused massive shortages rose from 31 cents to 49 cents a gallon

@@rsprockets7846 I'm familiar with that story. I was just a little kid back then and too young to really care.

Mom and Dad bought a new Cumberland Blue '72 Grand Safari when I was 5. It had been ordered by a customer without the woodgrain siding and with the rally wheels, but the customer did not take delivery. Dad claims he overheard an employee mention that a customer ordered the car for his wife, but she suddenly passed away before the car was delivered and obviously was no longer interested. After Mom and Dad agreed to buy, the salesman told Dad they had a hard time finding a buyer. Seems most customers thought the lack of woodgrain on the flanks made it look somewhat cheap, and being loaded with many options, "Big Blue Brenda" as we came to know her, carried a considerable sticker price. It worked out well for us. Mom and Dad were in their early 30s and the sportier styling was more in keeping with their "cool" personalities (ie, the eternal prom king/quarterback and popular cheerleader). I was the youngest of the four kids, and took my perch on the back "rumble seat", leaving our vicious toad of an older sister to duke it out with my knucklehead brothers in the middle seat. Baby brother Brady arrived just months later and over the next five years, two more boys were added to tribe. Mom and Dad can't recall any problems with Brenda, other than the fold-down part of the middle seat being fickle, leaving Brady and I to just jump over the top of the middle seat to the back. Just before we traded her for a '78 Olds Custom Cruiser, she was showing a bit of rust and the tailgate weather seal was starting to dry rot. "Brenda" was part and parcel of my childhood and intertwined with some of my most cherished childhood memories.

Yessir I derbied a bunch of these in the late 80s. They were everywhere. 100 bucks for clean ones.

Sadly true. Sad for Imperials, too.

@@letaloudone Did you ever find one too nice to derby so you drove it for a while or sold it on ?

Me too there was a family guy here that had a 1965 or 66 galaxie wagon copper color with wood grain sides and mag wheels new was beautiful

👍👍

Yeah but they required too much maintenance, that wasn't worth the cost of admission for most. Especially when a flip down, or swing open tailgate is equally out of the way.

Oil “embargo” ❓🤣

@@mrdiplomat9018 yes oil embargo. Thank you Mr diplomat. I talk to text autocorrect and sometime I don't catch it.

Well-said.

I forgive you. You should save one now though!

That one has just 40k miles if I remember right, and there's something people particularly like about the 71, since it is the first year. It was parked indoors since the 80s so the inside was really nice. Windshields are cheap, the rest would go together pretty quickly. This one is a far cry better for restoration than something pulled out of a field

I have a cottonwood green 1971 Biscayne with 350/auto. Old metallics fade out pretty quick after sitting outdoors very long, but it still has bright color in the door jambs

Cottonwood green looked great on all 1971 full size models like our new Impala sport coupe with black interior.

@tyler2610 This guy has the BEST Buick Wagon...he is a perfectionist. ru-vid.com

Or at least seemed like 45 mph

They made a Biscayne in there somewhere I don't know if they did that in a station wagon

I had enough and moved to the Ozarks.....enjoy it.

@@anderander5662prettiest country in the world… all the rivers, bluffs, trees as far as the eye can see… massive hills and valleys… yea the west has the High Mountains… but the valleys don’t compare… just moved back from Colorado Springs.. in less than 8 years it was destroyed by the Communist regime from California..

This was a 1971-76 show. It would have been huge if it was expanded to other years beyond that!

Separate eras different equations

Now that's a boat 😄

The cool hip beach goers played The Eagles and others to avoid AM bubblegum syndrome

@@garyblanchard1084 Hey, I listen to more bubblegum, from then and today, than I chew! I'm a man of the people! :D

@@Zickcermacity AM was ALL I for one played until halfway through high school

Exactly lol l would like to hear him lmpala lmpala lmpala lol😂😂😂😂

Stay tuned, next video I will show the 1971 Biscayne with 6/3 spd

By then these beauties were too big for anything less than V8 power. Buyers had to special order straight 6 three sp manuals and wait weeks and weeks for delivery.

I should be able to get in touch with them if I ask a couple guys. Send me an email, mrgoodpliers1985@gmail.com

Yikes 😬

And you could only get 10 gallons max.