1993 Buick Roadmaster Estate Is Junkyard Treasure

The heyday of the big American station wagon with rear-wheel-drive and powerful V8 engine ran from about the late 1950s through the early 1970s, though the far-less-powerful Malaise Era Country Squires and Caprice Estates carried on well enough into the late 1970s (my own Malaise Era childhood featured a Chevy Beauville van). By the 1990s, though, the minivan and SUV had more or less slaughtered the big Detroit longroof… until Buick and Oldsmobile dealers began selling the Roadmaster Estate and Custom Cruiser in the 1991 model year. Here's one of those time-traveling wagons, found in a San Francisco Bay Area boneyard in June.