Survivor 1971-76 GM Clamshell Station Wagons! Chevy, Pontiac Safari, Oldsmobile, & Buick Estate!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Mr. Goodpliers walks around an amazing lineup of survivor 1971-76 GM Clamshell station wagons! Check out Chevy Caprice, Impala & Kingswood, Buick Estate, Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, and Pontiac Safari models... Woodgrain or plain side, in every color of the rainbow!
Them wagons are a lot of real estate if you are painting em. Thanks Tim👍👍
Cool to see so many GM Clamshell wagons together along with sedans.Nice to see so many of them still exist and are in good hands.Always liked these!.
Love those wagon s
Me too there was a family guy here that had a 1965 or 66 galaxie wagon copper color with wood grain sides and mag wheels new was beautiful
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IMO: The 'clam-shell' tailgate was the best designed tailgate - it got out of the way, for loading and unloading.
Yeah but they required too much maintenance, that wasn't worth the cost of admission for most. Especially when a flip down, or swing open tailgate is equally out of the way.
I can't believe how many derby cars I made out of these wagons! There's a couple back in the day I truly regret running in the derby. But in the 80s they were a dime a dozen! Sure wish I'd kept a few!
I forgive you. You should save one now though!
We had a 1974 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Custom Cruiser wagon in the seventies, white with a maroon interior and woodgrain siding. It was so long it barely fit in the garage, but that glideaway electric tailgate was pretty cool. We also had a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass wagon, cream-color with a hatchback liftgate. Considered mid-size, it was much smaller than the 1974 Ninety-Eight but still larger than cars of later years.
I am happy there are folks out there that can keep these cars.
Lots of work and TLC involved, just happy they have the time and money it takes to preserve them.
What a cool time by all.
Thank you for the sound
Thanks for sharing this video Mr. Goodpliers. Really enjoyed watching and learning about the clamshell station wagons. We had a Pontiac crap brown four door car in the 70's. And van's. Learned a lot of how the clamshell worked, very interesting.
That blue 76 at the 8:20 mark with the bucket seats in the third row was awesome!
What my little brother and I would’ve given for those back in the day!!!🤣
My mom had 69 Kingswood station wagon. White with a rack and the faux wood paneling. I learned to drive in it at 15 with my learners permit.
All us kids that grew up in the sixties and seventies grew up on a station wagon. We had the green/simulated wood of the Pontiac Grand Safari, year unknown. I'm gonna say it was a 72. At least one we had had the backwards third row seat so you're parents could get a break and you could make faces at the people behind you.
Thank you, I really appreciate the background and history.
Excellent video! Love them all but if I had to choose it would be the 71 or 73 Olds Custom Cruiser.
Amazing any of these even exist
They where the toughest demo cars allowed on the track...
Yes a handful of these got used by me!
I miss these kind of cars. 🙂
Shame there weren’t more Buicks. They’re my favorite, the Cadillac of wagons!
@tyler2610 This guy has the BEST Buick Wagon...he is a perfectionist. ua-cam.com/users/stangslayerws6
I love these Clamshell wagons.
Very cool!
While I technically wouldn't call it a clamshell, back in the mid-'80s, my wife (ex) and I owned a 1974 Chevy Malibu station wagon. It was perfect for a growing family.
Tan, with the fake woodgrain sides.
Had a 400 V8.
I thought it was a cool car.
The wife hated it.😂
We had a 73 Buick Estate when I was a little kid.
I have some great memories of summer vacations riding in the rear seat of these cars!
These wagons from Chevy through Buick did retain the flavor of the Tri-5 Nomad on the 'C' and 'D' pillars, despite them being 4-doors. They're all beautiful!
cool, a clamshell wagon club. i owned a '73 and '74 impala wagon and they rode beautiful.
Thanks Mr GP.....from 1958-1961 and 1969-1972 they used the alternate series names....1962-1968 they used Belair, Impala, and Caprice. Love these, I had a1968 Impala and a 1971 Kingswood.
They made a Biscayne in there somewhere I don't know if they did that in a station wagon
Bring back memories!
Back in 1975 I rode to a KISS concert in the back of a stationwagon driven by my friend's Mom. We were all too young to drive. Not sure if it was a GM product. Those were the days.
Seems to be GM's golden age. Unique vedeo ! Thumb up !
My first car was w
‘70 Chevy Brookwood wagon.
Small block 350 with three on the tree and a posi rearend..
My parents bought it new and by seventy five it was too rusty
for a family car.
I started driving it in seventy seven.
Did a lot of high school street racing. It was fast.
The best was racing a ‘68 Charger. Her speedo was pegged
at 150 when I passed her.
Nowadays it makes me news when someone is clocked at 100 mph.
We had the fully loaded Pontiac station wagon with clamshell tailgate.My sister ran over a motorcycle cop in it. I learned to drive in it.
Awesome wagons Tim, nice show, love it 👍👍👀👀
20 years ago the whole lot could've been purchased for the price of a new ford ranger. It's crazy how they've appreciated!
When my daughter was born in 1982, I traded my Triumph Spitfire for a '75 Buick Estate Wagon. 455 CI engine, room for 9 passengers comfortably, space behind the front-facing third row as big as the trunk in most cars, plus a trunk under the back floor. Biggest problem was the tailgate. That's why Ford's Magic Doorgate was more practical. Traded it about a year later when we figured out that we don't need THAT much space for a new-born.
Nice to see a few of these cars that didn’t end up in a demolition derby.
My dad had a 1972 Buick Estate Wagon with the clamshell
I have seen a Cadillac clamshell wagon once...they are very rare
Great vid
Mom & Dad had the '74 Yellow!
A 72-76 wagon with a 400sb ruled the demo derby for years 😁 it's easy to see why they're so few now. Thanks for sharing the show👍👍
Yessir I derbied a bunch of these in the late 80s. They were everywhere. 100 bucks for clean ones.
Sadly true. Sad for Imperials, too.
@@letaloudone Did you ever find one too nice to derby so you drove it for a while or sold it on ?
Memories Sweet Memories,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
You can see the earth sink from all that 70’s iron .
The orange/copper 1975 Kingswood Estate could pass for a twin of our school’s Drivers’ Education car if it would have had the 454 V8.
Perhaps too much engine for student drivers to have under his or her right foot
First car chevy Kingswood loved the tailgate window split hide in the body
Nowadays you don't see many station wagons out on the roads. SUVs took over.
The trouble with the clamshell wagons is that there is a nylon gear in the roof that raises and lowers the upper glass in the back. Once that wears out the window won't work. Extremely hard to replace !
Really cool to see unmolested survivors in any genre car, trucks,tractors,really anything mechanical.
Still looking for my 73 estate wagon to add too my collection
Trivia: GM placed the gas tank in a fender aft of a rear wheel, which is a vulnerable position. There is little protection in the event of a collision; the fender will just fold and puncture. Our car back then was a '71 Kingswood.
We had of them but it was a Pontiac safirai it was stolen ,we had a foster home by one of one of the boys we in our foster home back in the 1970 s !!
Preciosas todas
My uncle had a ‘71 Buick estate wagon based on the Electra with the 455. Memories.
Dude… had to put your video on 2x to get to the Olds and Buick versions…. Just wanted to revisit my moms 76 Custom Cruiser wagon and my dads 75 98 Regency Sedan
Awesome love those wagons, great American cars better than the plastic garbage today and the stupid $ 100,000 suv
Brother had a 71 Chevelle wagon,brown,with a 307
Way classier looking than the 77 to 1990 Caprice and Impala wagons.
I had or I should say my family had but I was the one driving it 1973 Chevy caprice estate station wagon clamshell. Are used to call it the Dragon wagon all my friends could Pailin and we could fly
It sounds like the movie Fargo.
We had a Caprice Estate when I was a kid. It was a burnt orange color with wood grain trim and tweed interior.
6:43 how do you drive ‘down’ from Illinois to Minnesota?
It’s tufted vinyl. Perforated means it has tiny holes in it.
Avocado for the one you described as not any other color
Anyone know which of them appeared in the COLUMBO epsiode with Donald Pleasence as „Mr Carsini“ driving it to the cliff disposing all the spoiled luxury wines? I know it must have been a clamshell, but cannot figure out wich…
Wish I can go I western pa
Yeah I think my dad had a 73 Old station wagon gold duster hit him in the bumper on the rear and totaled out that gold duster just like that
I guess both cars were totalled eh ?
What engine is in the green Pontiac, and how many miles & options?
How much is it?
I like the blue 71 Kingswood estate with the dent with 41000 for 10,000…is it still available?
My understanding is that it was bought by someone in Minnesota and is undergoing restoration
Need sound please
Old mate talking about the holy ghost in background
My dad used to hate when the Chevy dealer brought a wagon into our body shop when hit in rear end. Real headache to get right with all the leverage bending stuff and places you can't see. Plus that huge rear sliding window glass l, awful to handle and HEAVY.
The clam shell was a brilliant idea, as was the two-way liftgate that Ford introduced in 1965. We had a 1973 Olds Custom Cruiser clamshell. Again, like the sedans - these cars are just in terrible condition!
Age 5 to 10 for me. Formative.
Where's the Olds?
With 455 big block.
Except Chevrolet. 454 through 1975.
we had a 73 caprice in family rode like a starship yet sucked gas like a pig
Why clamshell ?
This is a colloquial term referring to the curved tailgate that retracts down into the floor, and curved upper glass that retracts into the roof.
Sounds like you’re about to fall asleep lol
They really really really HURT these beautiful Wagons when they put the Wrong or Horrible Aftermarket wheels on them! 😢
I saw some yellow wheels that made me cringe.
Some of those wheels are OK the rest clearly not so much
STOCK is the way to ROCK! 👍
those tailgates dont last long
Hi there this youtube channel savin junk is doing a four door to two door conversion on a 61 impala and needs a three on the tree transmission he lives near st.louis know anybody who can help him
Please don't put '22s' on old cars. Makes me wanna "puke green".
خلاص هذه الموديلات شيبت وعجزت
Fuck the mag wheels!
These were terrible cars then and are terrible now.
GMC or Gay Man's Chevy
I learned to drive in a 1971 Pontiac Grand Safari that my dad bought new as a company car. Gold metallic with white 9 passenger interior and wood delete. White interior was a daring choice with 6 boys in the family. With the 455, the thing was quite quick and a stealthy street racer (don't tell my parents). They sold it cheap in 1980 with over 300,000 miles on it and no rust or wrecks and still looking great. When it was fairly new, my mom backed into a light post right in the center of the bumper. The tailgate never worked right after that. Had to help it get started to bring it up. Our older brothers used to put us in the jaws of the tailgate and glass to torture us. Fond memories and you never see them around.
we had the whole caprice kings wood estate concours estate wagons from 71 to 74 in the family at one time we had vega, 2 chevellle concours with the wood trim a impala and 2 caprices all at once then the gas crisis hit
@@rsprockets7846 Gas crisis. That sure sucked!
@@aaronwilliams6989 yeah read about it oct 1973 first gas crisis because war with Israel and the OPEC nations rose petro prices and caused massive shortages rose from 31 cents to 49 cents a gallon
@@rsprockets7846 I'm familiar with that story. I was just a little kid back then
and too young to really care.
Mom and Dad bought a new Cumberland Blue '72 Grand Safari when I was 5. It had been ordered by a customer without the woodgrain siding and with the rally wheels, but the customer did not take delivery. Dad claims he overheard an employee mention that a customer ordered the car for his wife, but she suddenly passed away before the car was delivered and obviously was no longer interested. After Mom and Dad agreed to buy, the salesman told Dad they had a hard time finding a buyer. Seems most customers thought the lack of woodgrain on the flanks made it look somewhat cheap, and being loaded with many options, "Big Blue Brenda" as we came to know her, carried a considerable sticker price. It worked out well for us. Mom and Dad were in their early 30s and the sportier styling was more in keeping with their "cool" personalities (ie, the eternal prom king/quarterback and popular cheerleader).
I was the youngest of the four kids, and took my perch on the back "rumble seat", leaving our vicious toad of an older sister to duke it out with my knucklehead brothers in the middle seat. Baby brother Brady arrived just months later and over the next five years, two more boys were added to tribe. Mom and Dad can't recall any problems with Brenda, other than the fold-down part of the middle seat being fickle, leaving Brady and I to just jump over the top of the middle seat to the back. Just before we traded her for a '78 Olds Custom Cruiser, she was showing a bit of rust and the tailgate weather seal was starting to dry rot. "Brenda" was part and parcel of my childhood and intertwined with some of my most cherished childhood memories.
We had a 68 and then a 78 Impala wagons. Being a an upright bass player... I've always been a station wagon man. What a delightful presentation, thanks for sharing.
10 thousand dollars for a wrecked wagon! Wow! I've literally been paid to haul off better ones back in the day. Funny how times change. Love these wagons and like I commented earlier, sure wished I'd kept a few!
That one has just 40k miles if I remember right, and there's something people particularly like about the 71, since it is the first year. It was parked indoors since the 80s so the inside was really nice. Windshields are cheap, the rest would go together pretty quickly. This one is a far cry better for restoration than something pulled out of a field
Would have liked to have been there , didn't realize till later in life wasn't many of them manufactured
As always thank you for your eloquent tutorial on these GM wagons that are a big part of Americana. I'm sure you brought back many happy memories that were of a happier time in many of our lives. Much appreciated.
Well-said.
Great content, like all the big sedans, especially the clam shell wagons.
I love those clamshell wagons! My dad had a 1971 and 1973 Grand Safari's for company cars. Both with the 455.
Wow you really do like this model era! I love how tailgates in the back windows operate. The oil and bargo probably help kill these big dinosaurs off. Then people like me use them for parts like seats and pickups took the engines out put them in trucks and coupes. Sometime lies in the parts out of cars wagons up to maybe two years earlier mom is driving them.
Oil “embargo” ❓🤣
@@mrdiplomat9018 yes oil embargo. Thank you Mr diplomat. I talk to text autocorrect and sometime I don't catch it.
Great, Tim doesn't answer our comments, but he reads them. Thanks for fixing the audio.
What a amazing collection of these cars!
I grew up in these. Both parents had one at the same time. Mom had the Caprice Estate Must have been the 74, Dad had the 72 Kingswood. Spent a lot of hours watching the world through the back glass on vacations and fishing trips. Thanks for the video.
Does this have audio?
Caprice wagon cream with woodgrain 1973 at minute 27.13 says for sale
Any info would be appreciated
I should be able to get in touch with them if I ask a couple guys. Send me an email, mrgoodpliers1985@gmail.com
We had at least 3 in the family. The last one was a 73 Caprice Estate. 😁
The non factory color repaints look strange. I'd much rather have a faded original paint car than a repaint. Had a '72 Kingswood in light blue when my kids were young. Served us well. I think the only thing that car ever needed was a radiator.
Thanks for sharing this. I live out west , left coast and the station wagon has pretty much disappeared from the landscape. Unfortunately Prius and Tesla’s have become the second ahole on the elbow that everyone needs out here. Progress is a mofo. 👍🤙✌️🇺🇸
I had enough and moved to the Ozarks.....enjoy it.
@@anderander5662prettiest country in the world… all the rivers, bluffs, trees as far as the eye can see… massive hills and valleys… yea the west has the High Mountains… but the valleys don’t compare… just moved back from Colorado Springs.. in less than 8 years it was destroyed by the Communist regime from California..
My grandpa had a grand safari wagon don't remember what year but it had glass on the top .