I joined this group three years ago when I bought my current 68 Cutlass flat top wagon. Today I bought a 69 Firebird convertible (ostensibly for my wife!) and was thinking about selling said Cutlass, seeing as how I have barely started my fantasized restoration on it. I searched "Cutlass wagon" to see what was out there as far as price and inventory and as soon as I saw some cool photos I came to the conclusion that I would hold onto my wagon. I grew up a child of the 60's, at the height of the wagon revolution: pre-minivan, pre-suv. Ours were a 58 Plymouth Savoy, 67 and 70 Country Squires, 72 Town and Country, and a nondescript 75 Dodge. At 18 I bought a 56 Nomad (that I foolishly traded for a 64 Buick Riviera a few years later). When I started my family it was an 86 Volvo 240. Post divorce ('92) I found a one owner, mint low mileage 72 Cutlass flat top that was my daily driver for five years, when I bought a new Volvo 850. That car went to LSU with my daughter and I found myself wagonless for the first time in my life. Until three years ago, when I got the classic/muscle car bug. Several months of SF Bay Area Craigslist perusals led me to a roadworthy but leaky and rusted 68 Cutlass. Much work has been done to waterproof and remove the rust but much work remains to make her sea worthy. And so it begins...
So is the Firebird merely Ostensibly any longer! Welcome to this side of the lurk fence. 3 years. Wow! We'll help you get that Cutlass cutting the wind! Glad she changed yur mind! :2_thumbs_up_-_anima
finally. Glad you decided to hang on to the wagon. It looks like a keeper. Speaking of this side of the tall fence, as soon as you get that grass mowed get to work on your wagon. Speaking of grass, mine needs mowed too! I just have so many more important things to do.
Basic model: 350 4bbl automatic, power steering, brakes, AC (disconnected) . Runs strong, needs a new carb to make it run better and more dependable. No smoke, single exhaust. One of the previous owners started to do work e.g. new radiator with braided lines, but that is pretty much it.
Great wagon to start with. I had thought about getting one of those flatroof's back in the early 70's but never did. Lots you can do with it...... Welcome to the SWF.... Marshall
aboard Carl. That's a cool looking Cutlass. It does appear to be all there. You certainly have good taste in vehicles. Jack
Is it called a "flat roof" because it doesn't have roof racks? Am I or are you...never mind... to SWF anyway.
Fanny, the Cutlass wagon, along with the Buick counterpart, are called "Flat Roof" wagons because they are not the Vista Cruiser or Sportwagon with the raised section at the back with the extra glass parts. The roofs are all in one plane, not two, hence flat roof wagons.
