Well there's more salt than snow on the street now so my Corvette is sleeping.
I've owned my '91 Caprice wagon since '99 and there are 99k miles on her. Wife calls it my hearse.
I've hauled the family on vacation, loaded her with drywall, firewood, my 2 man bass boat fits inside, tailgate down, hauled my camping gear, pulled trailers and used and abused her.
She's sat outside since '07 when I bought the 'vette and deserves better. So I'm bringing her up to date with some new parts and a thorough detailing. I want to be able to drive anywhere with confidence and look good doing it.
Wagons are back. Look at Mercedes, Audi, Cadillac.
Wagons are as American as, well "My Three Sons".
The "B" body was the last rear drive V8 full size car from GM for quite a while. I think they're special.

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They fishtail beautifully. I like it. I'd drive it.

nice and clean!

Looks good!, I used to have a 91' Caprice (not the wagon) back when I was in college until some kid decided to slam his camaro into it... (was my uncles car) They ride nice!

Keep up the good work!
-=Rick

I'll bet you could fit an LS3 in there ;-)

SUVs and XUVs be damned ! Bring back the wagons !
I have had 2 compact wagons ('74 Vega and '84 Subaru) in my time and found them to be most useful vehicles. The Vega was a lot of fun.

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Look, I’m guessing you must be about my age given the time of your university experience so let me try to explain. (Hey I know my avatar is old but I graduated from my undergrad in 1999.)

These were the last RWD sedans/wagons from GM in the USA until they started to import the G8/Holden (which only came as a sedan.) They were good honest cars that never pretended to be something they weren’t. Example: CUVs are just station wagons in “hooker heels” so they’ll look taller. That is a vehicle pretending to be something it’s not, desperately trying to convince soccer moms that they don’t need a minivan or the big honking land yachts that the B-bodies were. The old SUV craze was about insecure people refusing to buy the vehicles they really needed (wagons and minivans) and instead buying Suburbans and Tahoes and Excursions and Expeditions (or perhaps it was Excavation?) GM killed these cars to expand full size SUV production capacity.

Maybe the ride was a little floaty but damn it to a certain demographic (and don’t give me the crap about that demographic dying off cause I think 50+ year old people had bought cars like the Caprice/Impala since it was introduced) a car like the B-bodies meant that they were doing OK in life. They could afford a Chevy that rode like a Cadillac, and if you could afford the Fleetwood, then you had really freaking made it. That’s the love that you’re finding for these cars.

Besides if the B-body cars had remained in production and been updated and improved how many fewer Panther platform cars and Chrysler 300s would have been sold? Wouldn’t GM be in better shape?

cool car. for wagons i've had 91, 92, and 94 caprices and a 92 roady. i love them and i'm sure i will own more in the future. a few months ago i had picked up a 94 to drive in the winter but when i got it home it was too rotten underneath to be safe.

I think that's begging for some 96 impala ss rims

Yeah, I know, but one thing at a time. I'm working on rust abatement right now, before it gets too far out of hand.
New upper and lower control arms, springs, shocks and tie rods going on this weekend. I'm working my way from front to back. Good pile of rust there, but the wagons have a fully boxed frame and there's still plenty of steel left.

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