"AMC/Renauledge" (n2skylark)
08/05/2015 at 03:40 • Filed to: None
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"AMC/Renauledge" (n2skylark)
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1975 Buick Estate Wagon in the foreground. I love how, in Buick logic, the biggest production wagon ever made, with the biggest V8 Buick ever made, built on the C-Body Electra wheelbase, was only worthy of 3 venti-ports on each side. Interior trim, grille insert, and round headlights were the things that Buick thought made it a smaller LeSabre-like 3-holer.
Also, you gotta love the combo of woodgrain side panels, the vinyl roof, the massive, useful roof rack, the power hide-away tailgate, and the 5-spoke road wheels. Absolutely epic.
In the background, you see a ‘75 Century Custom wagon. I had a ‘76 back in college (11 years ago) with the Buick 350 and no rack on the top. I adored that thing. And even though it was a midsize in its day, it was bigger and longer than my RA’s 12-passenger ‘84 Econoline Club Wagon.
Man, I wish Buick made cars like this today. I wish there were a market for them.
FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
> AMC/Renauledge
08/05/2015 at 03:53 |
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GM missed a chance on this one
Jonee
> AMC/Renauledge
08/05/2015 at 04:21 |
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Did that one have the disappearing clamshell tailgate?
Svend
> FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
08/05/2015 at 04:44 |
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Ye’, not as fancy a tailgate but dual light clusters for when the tailgate is open looks great leaving a full width aperture to load into.
PS9
> AMC/Renauledge
08/05/2015 at 06:25 |
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#MalaiseEraLyfe
BunkyTheMelon
> AMC/Renauledge
08/05/2015 at 06:41 |
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Could that estate be a V6? I thought Buick used the ventiports to denote cylinder count.
DisplacementForDayz, ironically lusts after a Honda Grom
> BunkyTheMelon
08/05/2015 at 08:58 |
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Nope! The ventiports symbolized the car’s dick length in miles!
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> Jonee
08/05/2015 at 10:15 |
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The big one in the photo did. The Century in the background had a hatchback style liftgate.
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> BunkyTheMelon
08/05/2015 at 10:24 |
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Zero chance. The Estate Wagon came standard with the 455 Buick V8.
The only time venti-ports ever denoted cylinder count was on the 2005-09 LaCrosse and 2006-11 Lucerne.
When Buick started them in the late ‘40s, all models had I8s. Buick didn’t even offer a 6. The basic Special and midrange Super usually had 3 per side, though sometimes the Super had 4. The LeSabre had 3 from 1960-79, but a V6 only came available in ‘77.