Fellow wagonite

Danged blondes and dogs and babies.

 

I had to go on the road for work last week. I was trying to find the highway and took a wrong turn. Came across this Buick Wagon.
The Cabover in the photo is for my sons. They love cabovers.

 

Cabovers. My brother Geoff is a medically disabled former truck driver, and he had a perpetual hard one for the GMC Astro 95 from the mid-to-late '70s.

 

I learned in a Ford short cab cab over. Later drove A Freightliner and Peterbuilt cabover. So happy to finally get conventional cabs then what we called anteaters.

 

Bread- Truckin' (down the highway) -1973

 

Drove to the store today, and all of us had our wagons!

 

I'd say that cp is the best looking car in the whole lot!!! I bet the owner of that Buick took notice and promptly visited the car wash

 

washing the Buick wouldn't help it - clear coat mostly worn off, dark blue (Navy?) paint faded, rubber strips along the side barely intact, this is actually the best angle, but you know he's proud to say the he "still drives the last of the real wagons"
and it is his daily driver. and its amazing to me how shiny the CP is in pictures, because that hood is so badly buff burned there must be 50 different shades of silver on the hood

 

This is badly-burned silver:

 

It was six versions of @$$, inside and out. Bummer is, if I had had the money I would've bought it!

 

Yeah for 750$ that one side looks good

 

If you always park it at cruise ins and at home at that angle it's well worth $750. Maybe $1500 if the other side is nice.

 

I might pay $750 just on the trim all the way around if it was straight.

 

Not surprisingly, that was the best corner. If I had got jt, all the trim and Di-Noc would've been removed, the paint sanded down, and then an attempt at painting it some shade of blue. But, oh, well.

 

I once had a silver '87 CV (the CP was an '85) that had been so badly weathered, the primer showed through in spots.