Lost to time, this video highlights the benefits of owning a Caprice Wagon!
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@turdfurgusson2 жыл бұрын
My family had one when I was a kid. I then later drove it as a high school car. I thought it was embarrassing to be driving a station wagon, but looking back now, that was actually a pretty sweet ride.
@mikethemechanic7395 Жыл бұрын
I had this car in HS. I got made fun of driving it
@mgrella636 ай бұрын
My all time favorite estate wagon! Best looking wagon GM ever made!
@buckgonsalvez3843 жыл бұрын
Love these old car videos .
@jonise25242 жыл бұрын
Wow ! Those family trips back in those days were just fabulous !
@gclarkbloomfield88483 жыл бұрын
...back in the day when families had beautiful long-roof wagons, woody or not...before the ascendancy of the crap-ass Voyagers/Caravans and the environmental catastrophes known as Sport Utility Vehicles... ...give me a Caprice Classic or a Custom Cruiser or a Buick Estate wagon anyday...no stupid 120 pound third row seats to remove, these wagons' third row simply folded into the sub floor... ....style, good looks and comfort on those 300 plus mile roadtrips... ...are you listening, Detroit??
@Gr8thxAlot3 жыл бұрын
I love the radio.
@jax2728ken Жыл бұрын
My mom drove an older model of the Caprice Wagon and in 1990 while she was driving to work the check engine light came on. She drove back home, and once in the driveway, an engine fire started. Huge flames, it was very exciting as a kid
@brettbassham6166 Жыл бұрын
We had a 78 Caprice Classic. I'd sit over the hump in the back seat and sleep for miles with my feet up under the front seats. Are we there yet!!
@zeekade793 жыл бұрын
01:15 Styling: "Point out the smooth, rounded lines"... uhm yeah right! 😂
@michaelwhite2823 Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Training for my new career!
@Tennesseestorm763 жыл бұрын
Years ago, I owned an '85 Caprice Estate wagon
@erin190308 ай бұрын
I hauledlumber, cement and cinder blocks for building my deck in the yard, in my tank.
@suspectnumber33 жыл бұрын
I got a 1989 Caprice Classic wagon! 5.0L 307.
@joserafaelgrangefuenmayor77442 жыл бұрын
Me gustan las camionetas; Chevrolet Caprice Estate Wagon y Caprice Classic Station Wagon; saludos y buenas tardes.
@AverageJosh7692 жыл бұрын
Oh my god the paint on my 83 still looks just as mint as the paint on that wine red one
@user-dg2ux8jr6yАй бұрын
Love the wagon
@AlexanderCrumpАй бұрын
It's remarkable that Chevy's carbureted 305 was up to 165 HP that year while the upscale Olds 307 was still wheezing out only 140. Why did GM not invest more in that engine?
@myrtistaylor57593 жыл бұрын
My dad has that same car! Same color too
@g.walter16533 жыл бұрын
Cool Ass Car
@rjcpa6265 ай бұрын
Love it
@erin190308 ай бұрын
Yup that my wagon the Woody!
@videonut19883 жыл бұрын
I’m shocked when they kept the wagon after the ‘91 redesign...
@michaelvaus2 жыл бұрын
Im not super into the 91 and onward design. But i think its okay. I really like the 94 to 96 with the lt1
@landyachtfan797 ай бұрын
3:37.............um, no., that isn't a "smart, newly-designed steering wheel", at least on the Caprice Classic, that's the same delta-spoke wheel used from 1978-'84. It just has a chrome/satin insert on the hub instead of the woodgrain insert that was used in years past. Now, that wheel WAS new for the Impala, which had used a wheel without the woodgrain hub, but not the CC.
@AntonioLawson-to5ic Жыл бұрын
1 of a kind
@dextervandemark7082 Жыл бұрын
Had one oh my God how I love that car traded it for a 1980 Buick Riviera
@pwrfl23572 жыл бұрын
3:44 those crotch cooler vents
@erin190308 ай бұрын
Ahh bench seats !
@kingnillvwell381 Жыл бұрын
I think this car was the family income saving.
@materialdialectics2 жыл бұрын
My enhanced wheel protection is in the process of falling off.
@erin190308 ай бұрын
It was a couch on wheels
@brentmarsh13252 жыл бұрын
three way tailgate? I only heard two
@richsarchet97622 жыл бұрын
The third way is as a door, with the window still up...which doesn't make any sense unless you are old enough to remember in about 1965 when Ford first introduced the 2-way (tailgate or door), but you had to roll the window down first. A couple years later they modified it so you could leave the glass up, and it became 3-way. (Nobody ever rolled the window down and opened it like a door, but you could.)
@jonise25242 жыл бұрын
The days when SUVs were not popular
@drsileighty31423 жыл бұрын
I wanna own that shitbox But i dont live in USA ;-;
@wincrasher20073 жыл бұрын
These were quite long in the tooth even in '85. GM was starting to die and didn't have the money to modernize these models. People seem nostalgic for them today, but sales were waning even then, as the boomers didn't want these old style boats.
@ironinquisitor36563 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is those boomers are buying those tubby fat lard crossovers now today lol.
@TVHouseHistorian3 жыл бұрын
Most boomers with kids around that time were opting for front-drive minivans, which offered a lot of utility and convenience, plus they didn’t require a v-8 powerplant, so they were much more economical. Front wheel drive was catching on big time with the American auto buyer by 1985, so you saw a lot of downsized front-drive station wagons on the road as well. I agree with another commenter in that nowadays these same people are driving crossovers in their old age.
@JCNDCIII2 жыл бұрын
Yes and no. Chevy kept selling these wagons until 1990 as did Oldsmobile and Buick even though the sedan models were refreshed and shrunk in 1986 (except for the Caprice). If there had not been a demand GM would have dropped them altogether. I remember how dated they looked in the late 80's but folks kept buying them. As Scott remarked a lot of families were trading them in for the Astro and Safari mini-vans because mini-vans were all the rage. But there were a lot of wagon hold outs.
@thor86402 жыл бұрын
and in 1991 they got bigger yet, GM quit listening to their customers and knowing what the market wants in the 70's. They had too many old farts in their departments.
@TeeroyHammermill2 жыл бұрын
@wincrasher2007: The ran all the way up to 1996 with a redesign in 91. They were succeeded by large SUV's I.E. Tahoe, Yukon, Escalade-not minivans because the minivan had already been out since 1984. 4 wheel drive was the top selling point and these wagons didn't offer it. Styling was another selling point and large SUV's had more styling appeal than Wagons and Minivans.