Hey guys. Im kinda new to this station wagon thing, even though i love them . See my mom gave me her 75 Estate wagon, and i love it, its my baby. I would like to know just how many were made, and how many are left. I tried to google it but NOTHING comes up for it! When i drive it around, people look like they have never seen anything like it before haha. Any answers would be quite nice because im all resourced out. thanks
first to answer your three thing's as: not many hardly any. of course they look at you funny. our cars leave a nice long wake like any boat do.
to the wagon train, 75Est. Nice wagon! Like to see more of it. Erik Boat Tail will likely have some info about your questions...he is a good Buick guy. I love Buicks but he has more info.
"75Esatate": (Is that name meant to be, or is it a typo....?) Are the 3rd and 4th digits of the VIN "35" or "45" ? "35" = 6 seats wagon "45" = 9 seats wagon (3rd seat in the rear) Total production for model year 1975: "35" = 4,128 "45" = 9,612 There is no way to find out how many of those wagons are still in existence today. Even if you can find a way to find out (state/province by state/province in North America) how many of those are still registered, you still can't tell how many unregistered wagons there are around. And what to think about exported wagons to Europe (just to name a place) ?
Click here to view a short clip showing the "clamshell" tailgate operating on a model year 1975 Estate Wagon. This clip was taken from the original 1975 Buick promotion movie, owned and digitally edited by board member "75RivGS" (Rob)
Here are scans from the model year 1975 Buick brochure. I'm sorry about the bad quality, but that's because I didn't do the scanning myself.... If you really want, I can scan these pages from my own 1975 Buick brochure for you. Especially the options page isn't really that good to read in the scans below: Click thumbnails
Not specifically, but one can make a statistical guess. Vehicle scrappage rates are available on the web. VERY roughly, you can assume that about 1% of a vehicle's production is still in existence after so many years. The survival rate drops rapidly in the first 10-15 years, but it levels out in the 1 to 5% range after about 25 years because the cars that still exist are in the hands of collectors or others who, for various reasons, continue to keep them rather than drive them into the ground. So with a total production of around 13,700 1975 Buick Estate Wagons (using the figures above), you could assume that somewhere around 150 to, say, 600 or 700 are still in existence today. I would certainly guess less than 1,000.
We are living on a planet named Earth, it's much bigger than just that tiny bit of land they call the United States of America. Cars go everywhere, that's what cars do, you know... They even go to to "foreign countries"........ And those foreign countries don't have something like a "Vehicle scrapping rate" I assume that you want to help out a fellow board member, so please do a little bit of reseach and post those model year 1975 Buick Estate Wagon "Vehicle scrapping rate" figures for the USA in this thread, that would be very interesting to read !!!
Hey, Erik Boattail, calm down. I was not insulting the rest of the world, and you certainly had to go out of your way to take what I said as an insult. First off, of course you have "vehicle scrappage rates." Vehicles are used up and discarded everywhere, not just in the United States. The rate might be different, but I guarantee you that the number of, say, 1957 Citroens running around France today is less than it was in 1957. Ditto for the number of 1937 Mercedes running around in Germany and the number of 1972 Fiats still on the road in Italy. Second, of course cars are sent all over the world. But compared to the number of 1975 Estate Wagons sold in the United States, the number sold in the rest of the world is tiny as these cars were not heavily exported. The vast majority were sold in the U.S., so the vast majority of the ones that remain are likely to be in the U.S., and so U.S. vehicle survival/scrappage rates are legitimate statistical measures to use to try to come up with a reasonable guess as to how many remain today.
And like I said, I DID post U.S. vehicle scrappage statistics in this thread. Why don't you post some for The Netherlands (one of those "foreign countries" I've heard so much about).
@ the thread starter: I hope now you have your info about how many model year 1975 Buick Estate Wagons there are still around today Key words are: So in short, he's saying what I already posted in this thread: By the way: Nice looking wagon, if things go well I will be moving to a town close to Calgary before the end of this year. So maybe I will meet you and the Estate Wagon some day
Not true. I, at least, took a shot at coming up with a guess with some actual numbers. You have done no such thing except to take offense where none was intended and then criticize my attempt to have a discussion on the subject.
You were too late editing your post.... Yeah, let just say that we don't agree about all this So you can do what you have to do now:
