1972 Buick Estate Wagon

Horrendously over-priced.

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1972 Buick Estate Wagon

paint color: brown







455 V8 engine. Automatic transmission. 53,200 original miles. Original paint, Nutmeg brown color exterior and near perfect vinyl interior. One owner. Purchased from Cloud Buick in Appleton, WI in August of 1972. Most original new car paperwork is included, (build sheet, brochure, hang tags, etc.)Air conditioning . Tinted windows. Factory AM/FM radio with rear speaker. Front and rear bumper guards and rub strips. Roof rack. Disappearing power rear window and tailgate. Heavy duty trailer towing package. Factory accessory compass and tissue dispenser. Just recently tuned up and runs and drives great. Well maintained and always garaged. Never smoked in. Never driven in winter - the body and floors are solid! This wagon shows very minimal wear. Will be at Iola '15 in the car corral. Seriously interested parties only please - no "tire kickers", "low ballers" or "car flippers".

 

When they didn't spring for the color-keyed belts chances are you are dealing with a considerably low option wagon. Although it is amusing to see the trip odometer AND speed alert speedometer with such a combination...

 

Nice looking wagon with all the options I would want. Third seat faces the wrong way and too big for me.

 

Rear springs are WORN OUT! Way too much sag! IF it's org mi why? Were they hauling a LOADED 14,000 lb trailer all those miles?

 

I agree with pyasher. It may not have every option available, but with power tailgate, air-conditioning, AM-FM radio, remote mirror, third seat, speed sentinel, and trip odometer, it certainly has the options typical for the day or for an original purchaser trying to get into a Buick while keeping the cost down. I certainly wouldn't call it low-optioned.

 

OK, now here I have to laugh a little bit. You're probably the only person on the planet who thinks this. One of the most attractive things about the clamshell wagons was their forward-facing third seat. I never met anyone, kid or adult, who liked riding in the third seat of a station wagon for more than five minutes if the third seat faced to the rear.

We had a '90 Ford Taurus wagon with a rear-facing third seat, and if we wanted a way to get any of our kids carsick, all we had to do was let them ride in the third seat for 10 minutes. The third seat was essentially unusable as passenger transportation.

 

Plus there is usable space behind the third seat. I doubt that you will take 8 people somewhere and not have some type of cargo. With a rear facing seat the only place is the roof rack.

 

My grandchildren love the rear facing seat but we do call it the vomit seat.

 

Yep.

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Unusable? I disagree. Being the youngest out of 6 kids I loved sitting in the way back facing the rear. The rear facing seat gave us a different perspective of the road.
We also could wave or/ and make faces at the cars behind us.
Just a matter of opinion.

 

As a kid, I recall a few times in the way back seat of the late 80s Caprice Estate my Dad had. I never felt carsick then that I recall, and I did feel carsick in that car multiple times; it was mostly after windy roads, though and I got carsick later on as a teenager also after windy roads.

 

You're right. The car IS perfect for all the five-year-olds out there.

 

Very nice looking wagon but it's only worth about half of that $16,900.

 

Down to just $16,900. Oh, that's right, that's not down at all.

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What? The springs are worn out? Original miles? This wagon was used to pull a 1970 Chateau Cavalier 17 foot travel trailer from 1972 to about 1977. And for about 12,000 miles at that. The travel trailer weighed in at maybe 800 pounds loaded for an average trip. Two people could easily move the trailer to position it on the hitch. The hitch on the wagon is an "Easy Lift" model that when needed, you could take almost all of the weight off of the rear springs by adjusting the chains with a bar. I will include them with the car. As for the one photo that shows the rear end supposedly dragging, it is just the way it sits at the angle of incline up the driveway. Yep, original miles and original owner. Do you think that I have turned back the odometer? Man...some people just want to rip other peoples rides.