For your Wagon Wednesday viewing pleasure, I give you one of GM’s most interesting and just plain cool wagons: the 1964 Buick Skylark Sport Wagon.
Over on Hemmings right now, you can feast your eyes on one of the best-looking A-bodies ever built, in my humble opinion. I know at least one other hoon here whom would probably agree.
The Skylark wagons were fitted with GM’s Skyroof, including four green tinted windows and a high roof. This Skylark has been through an extensive restoration, and it’s been taken care of.
This is a Texas car that I purchased in 2013. The prior owner purchased it from a salvage yard in Frisco, Texas, for $450 in 1994, and he undertook a lengthy frame-on restoration, with new paint and interior. All body panels, to my knowledge, are original; there is very little body filler. All glass, including the skylights, has been replaced or reinstalled and does not leak. The trim tag decodes to Arctic White exterior and Medium Blue interior, both of which have been retained, with the exception of the white seats. Note the interior door panels, which were custom made to match the originals.
Not only has it been restored, but it’s largely a period correct car.
The engine (see note above) is a 1965 version of the factory-correct Buick Wildcat 310, a 300 cubic-inch V-8, this one with a Carter AFB carburetor. It’s paired with a Super Turbine 300 transmission (rebuilt; also factory-correct), a two-speed automatic with “switch-pitch” variable torque converter.
It’s clean, it’s correct, and it’s comfortable!
Power brakes (drums all around; it stops great), power steering, and air conditioning (not installed, but I have the original parts; compressor is mounted and not seized). It has a remote driver’s side mirror, a working power rear window, and a roof-mounted luggage rack.
Clean, correct, comfortable, and . . . capacious. Check out the live well.
This wagon is outfitted with two seats; it does not have the third-row seat option. The odometer shows 40,XXX miles, but I suspect it’s turned over once. Or twice?
This classic cruiser can be yours for the low price of $14,500. What do you say?
[Source: Hemmings]
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