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New casting alert: '74-76 Buick Estate; Clamshells are coming!
Topic Started: Jun 30 2017, 09:24 PM (1,937 Views)
94cadillacfleetwood
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Nothing good ever happens after midnight.
Swifty
Jan 28 2018, 12:06 PM
Beltline's too high, and the roof looks chopped in comparison.
I noticed that too...hopefully they'll rectify this.

But that won't stop me from Hoovering these up for my wagon fan friends!!!
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

D-Pillars look too wide when looking straight on from the back as well.
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NUTHOUSE
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Station Wagon
Swifty
Jan 28 2018, 12:06 PM
Beltline's too high, and the roof looks chopped in comparison.
I was thinking the same thing. IIRC JL did a Chevrolet wagon around the same vintage some years ago....
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microbuss
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I think these had a rear facing rear seat
Which isn't good in a rear end collision!

I think it'd be hard to locate a real one since lots rusted away
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daniel60
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I would have been happier if there was another car in the mix instead of a battleship station wagon.
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Hosspower98
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Forever Blue Oval
Those barges were hideous back in that era. They reminded me of inverted cement tubs. Then add on those horrendous stick on bumpers...Geeeesh!

If your dad didn't drive a V8 powered 2-Door sedan or hardtop or convertible it wasn't cool. Anything else was the pits, hopeless. That is the way I remember the '50's-'80's. At least where I lived. It helped if dad was a wrench-turner too.
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Edited by Hosspower98, Jan 29 2018, 12:39 PM.
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Dean-o-mite
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Our family never had a station wagon throughout all of my life. I was the first (and to date, the only) person in our immediate family to have owned a wagon: I "needed" a second car to cart my newly adopted big dogs around in, since the back seat of the Mustang was too small to even consider trying to put them back there.


And I guess my dad was cool, having a V8 '77 Coupe DeVille as the family car from the time I was born, until 1995.
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Hosspower98
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Forever Blue Oval
Dean-o-mite
Jan 30 2018, 03:48 AM
Our family never had a station wagon throughout all of my life. I was the first (and to date, the only) person in our immediate family to have owned a wagon: I "needed" a second car to cart my newly adopted big dogs around in, since the back seat of the Mustang was too small to even consider trying to put them back there.


And I guess my dad was cool, having a V8 '77 Coupe DeVille as the family car from the time I was born, until 1995.
Sometimes practicality overrules coolness, right?
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MKZ
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It's been what 3 years since they made a new casting? And locally there is no longer any stores that carry this brand.
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carhauler
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MKZ
Jan 30 2018, 10:27 AM
It's been what 3 years since they made a new casting? And locally there is no longer any stores that carry this brand.
Don't write AW off, they're out there. Just bought three yesterday at WM.
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pjedsel
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I am always glad to see a company offer a model of a station wagon - they were such common, practical cars for years and years. Grew up in the backseat of a '55 Chevy 210 Handyman - also the car I learned to drive on. The parents of my best friend in my kid days had a '59 Chevy wagon. I have owned a few wagons in my time - the most recent was Quirky the '00 Taurus Wagon. So looking forward to when GL gets this one completed and out there.
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JeepXJLover
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craftymore
Jan 28 2018, 09:17 PM
D-Pillars look too wide when looking straight on from the back as well.
This^^^^

Makes the tailgate window appear smallish.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Dean-o-mite
Jan 30 2018, 03:48 AM
Our family never had a station wagon throughout all of my life. I was the first (and to date, the only) person in our immediate family to have owned a wagon
Same here! There's nothing wrong with station wagons or hatchbacks. Europe and Asia have figured that out, but American automakers seem convinced no one will buy them. I have a newsflash for you: SUVs and crossovers are just station wagons with a lift kit.

The only complaint I have about my 2008 Mustang is the lack of a hatchback. The trunk is surprisingly cavernous, but rendered absolutely useless by the ridiculously small opening from the 'short deck' design of the pony car class. It is, however, perfect for a hatchback (you know, like Mustangs had from 1974-1993).

I'd rather see a wagon in small scale than yet another '70 Mustang or '69 Camaro. Yawn.
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DinoMom
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Auto world would do a great job with a '59 Edsel wagon, though I expect this will look pretty good when the kinks Red ironed out!
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6A13TT
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Compact


Modern crossovers are basically the modern answer to cars from the pre 1950s with the high roofs and higher ground clearances except they can be had with 4WD.



I do hope they produce enough as there isn't one thing that annoys me the most more than people asking tonnes of money for new models on the aftermarket.
Edited by 6A13TT, Feb 5 2018, 10:44 PM.
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