Always loved the GM clamshell wagons especially the Olds and ‘76 Buick

late 60s chevele wagon is beautiful

Thanks for having us. The boys and I will be back.

I r😅turning the air cleaner lid upside down sounded like a dream

Josh - beautiful Chevy wagon ! Love it - Cool !

love wagon's and loved the video

I grew up in a '72 Pontiac Le Mans wagon painted Springfield Green. My parents brought me home from the hospital at my birth in that too. Probably my first memory in life was inside that car, too, when we took a road trip to Niagara Falls.

Thanks for correcting me. I did see the window and tailgate go up and down. So cool !

I so wish I was in this group! We had a ‘73 Buick Estate Wagon when I was a kid. That thing was a tank! Wish someone would have shown the storage space under the “back-back” deck. I remember it being huge. Looking at the group of clamshells assembled here.. how many family vacations they represented! ❤️

My father inherited a 70s buick estate wagon back in the early eighties from a friend that passed away. The friend was a funeral director who used the car for transporting bodies!! It had the 488 rocket motor and was loaded with all the goodies back.then!! We used it for going to the beach and the drive in movies. The other kids didnt like driving it but i didnt mind because it had the rocket motor and would fly down the highway!! We werent used to power windows and one time my sister put the passenger side window up on my mothers arm!! That doidnt feel too good for her!! I think we ended up trading it in for a better gas milage car, i woudnt want to have to fill that up nowadays, not with gas at 4 dollars a gallon!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!

My Parents bought a new '71 Kingswood wagon, color: cottonwood green. The tailgate was manual.

That was a blast from the past.Thanks.

So cool. There was a guy here in Montana who had a huge field filled with clam shells in various conditions, but all restorable. He passed last year and his widow auctioned off the yard. I heard all the clamshells got snapped up by one guy. I hope they get restored and not derbied.

Great video. Looks like a fantastic day out with some very nice people. My dad had a clam shell wagon in the 80s in and American base in Spain. These massive land yachts sure attracted some attention back then when all European cars were small and were dwarfed in comparison. As a young boy I absolutely loved these cars and still do. Thank you for posting.

I had a 72 buick estate. It had a 445 engine. That car run great right up to the time I traded it off. Only thing that was an issue is rust, lots of rust issues over the seen years I owned it.

God bless you guys

I shared this video to my club on Facebook

Very neat video! Sure was awesome to see them all in one spot. Very glad someone decided to do this event and couldn’t ask for a better group of people to host. Really cool area to experience also. Seeing the various options and hearing the background stories just adds to it all. Great job Kleps Garage 👏👏 & Thank You again!

Kleps garage is a most excellent KZfaq channel !!

Great club meeting !

Great video, thank you for it. My Dad always had station wagons . Had a gold 72 I think it was and I remember him saying it had either 300 or 350 horsepower. I know it had a 350 in it. We all went from Nashville TN all the way to Disney in Florida in 81 I think it was. They were building Epcot. I was 10. My sister and I she was 11.5 rode all the way in the back, no seat. Brother was 20, sister was 15 other sis 11 and half and I was 10 plus Daddy and Momma. Just me and one sister left. She is still mean, she was sneaking booze back then. Still sneaking doing evil wherever she goes. Good times back then though. I am gonna try to get me a wagon. Another wagon I liked we had was a 66 Buick that had the wrap around glass on the roof. That was a sharp car. My Dad got it in the early 80's . My sister wrecked both the wagons I have spoken of, I just remembered that...,

I had a 1976 Pontiac safari wagon with the 455 motor. The gas mileage sucked, but what a ride. I traded in my 1975 blue on white 4 speed trans am for it. Growing family you know.

Fisher Body Division engineers did an incredible job on those GM B-Body wagon "Glideaway" rear hatch option for Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Pontiac.

Cool! I am restoring an old race car I found buried in a destroyed barn. It’s engine barley exists

Expect this thing to be pulling onto a track one day with some headers out the hood

Nice video and nice cars I own a 72 kingswood and i love it 🙏

Thank you for this video. Here in France we can find some of them. I've been owning a 74 Pontiac Catalina Safari for 18 years, and it was a really head turner. I liked it very much. Still looking for another clamshell wagon in the French Craiglist "leboncoin".

I didn’t get to see the tailgate and window go up and down ! That’s half the fun!

Great car show

My next door neighbor had a 72 clambshell Chevy woodgrain sides and light green we went canoeing put it on the rack on top I think the 71 Olds wagon looked the best

I wish they showed the engines in all of them.Did the Pontiac Grand Safari have the 400 or the 455 Pontiac?

Great video indeed, where is the show in 2023? I have a 76 olds custom cruiser

The Concours De Clamshell...

Beautiful idea. Ever since I saw my first caprice wagon at the age of five I've been drooling over them for almost forty years. I can't get a driver's license in my country as I was found smoking marijuana as a pedestratian as a pain medicine for titanium arm.

My best friend father had a 1971 Pontiac Safari Clamshell wagon back in the day and we would take the keys on the weekend and go into the city to go clubbing and try to get it back before dawn Sunday morning so he and his family could go to church in the morning. He never noticed that there was extra miles on his car and me and my best friend would fill the tank and he never noticed that either

The biggest and best wagons ever made! Where did you have this meet? I saw several people from Indiana, I live in Elkhart.

I don't know why he said the rear window defogger with the wires in the glass was rare😮

Oh the POA valve 🤦🏻‍♂️

We can't share pics of our Wagons? 😢

Hello Bruce and Ted. Love your channel. Do you know who owns that 76 Buick Wagon in this video?

I wish I could put pictures of mine on here, i have my dads 75 olds clam wagon and I have my grandfather's 76 Buick with the square headlights in it, both are like new and we're ordered new with all options available at that time, im in ky and wanna bring them to the next meet, give me the info please ❤

Sadly, another piece of America that is fading away.

Nobody wanted them back in the 80s. You couldn't give them away. That's why they were derbied or engines were used for hot rod projects.