It’s 70s Woody Wagon time! *I need a Mustache*
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Casey Putsch checks out his DeLorean buddy's 1978 Pontiac Grand Safari and drives on the Algorithm of life! This car sits 8 people and is so incredibly ridiculous, it is truly awesome! Classic American woody wagon lives on with fake wood in the grandest of eccentric National Lampoon's Vacation wonderment! Enjoy the ride!
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You know you guys love this! What’s the funniest thing we can do with it?
test how many people you can fit in here illegally!
Diesel swap!
Cannonball? 🤔
Dress up in clown suits and every red light jump out and hand out ice cream sandwiches till the light goes green
Tie a dog leash to the rear bumper and stick a mannequin on the roof covered with a blanket.
"That’s twelve lungs we could destroy!" Love it 😁
"you're using your seatbelt? Lame dude, lame" I'm literally crying laughing, we had a Chevy Caprice wagon when I was a kid and I remember the back rear facing seat. Back in the good ol days.
My goodness, this is absolutely gorgeous! Your friend is so lucky to have found and own such a clean and well-cared-for example. I'm jealous.
Seriously man, that thing would be a roller with no floors if I found it near me. So brutally impossible to find old stuff these days that doesn't require weeks of welding before the mechanicals even get looked at.
And if they run & drive, they want stupid $...even before all the current madness. I'll never get it.
Used to run those as taxis in a college town. My biggest load was 20. The only thing I can come up with to do with that is hit the drive through at rush hour fully loaded and just let everyone in the car yell out huge orders all at once, then change your mind.
Did that, but you'll get away with it today; which would make for an Awesome vid! When we did it back in '83, a few construction guys weren't laughing along and "Helped" me move my car out of line. Yes, one of them yanked me out & thru me on my roof while the other drove it over 2 parking blocks into the other part of the lot. If it was anything other than an AMC, it probably wouldn't have been driveable after that.
Holiday Rooooooad.
ahhhhh the old casey is back, welcome buddy
;)
I'd totally take this over an SUV!!
Oh dude this thing is rad
Hell yeah, wagons with wood panels need to make a comeback, as I'm so sick of everything being turned into an SUV, or Crossover.
Growing up all the dad's in our neighborhood had a station wagon rivalry between all the different brands and sizes. My dad being an Oldsmobile guy had the Cutlass Cruiser, but we had Caprices, Elektras, Roadmasters, Celebrities, Centurys, Safaris and even a Grand Squire on the block! Those were the days, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
LOL complete with 80's parent quips! "Oh did I close it on your leg? You're alright, you've got 2 of them"
“ welcome to THE OPULENT WORLD OF PONTIAC SAFARI!!! …. That thing is absolutely awesome, fake wood and all! More of these deserve to be rescued. Great car, great people, and great energy! Love the video Casey
The three-way tailgate is What Time Forgot. :)
@@OllamhDrab man I hear that!
Love it! I remember when my folks bought our brand new '70 Plymouth Satellite Suburban wagon, with the classic 70s olive green & "wood panel"....that thing was immense, great family cruiser/drive-in/do everything car. I came across one at a street car show about 10 years ago just like it, and the flood of memories was very emotional. I WANT ONE!!!
Oh my. In 1986 I worked for a strugging computer store in Frederick MD. One of the owners had the local VW, Audi and Honda dealers. We needed a car to deliver computers but had no money and ended up with a 1978 Pontiac Safari Wagon for $1000 coutesy of Shockley VW/Audi. Same color, same features, same faux wood, same wheel covers. We flogged the crap out of that thing for years then sold it to an employee for beer money. Thanks for the video!
Super cool. Reminds me of Mom's old 68 Ford wagon. Fantastic!
More of this! Pure gold
Ahh 80s memories 😀. Still amazing that fake wood was still a thing through the 90s!?
Casey, this was very fun. Thanks for brightening my afternoon!
Me and the dog growing up spent many a mile in the back of a non trim all brown land yacht. Traveling cross country on school vacations. I thought Hoovies was blue. "Don't make me stop this car" and the "Rear seat clearing arm swipe from angry parent".
My parents had a station wagon like the one in this video. I was 8 years old and my brother and I would ride in the back in the pop up seats. Good times!😊
Its good to see a "frumpy dumpy" family cars getting love!! My dad has a 72 LeMans 4 door and no one really pays attention to it nevermind the late 70s wagons. Great video man thanks for showin some love to the family poncho cars.
Love to see a wagon always a treat
I love this.
I've been dailying an 84 Caprice Estate for 8 years.
It's very important that the child's rumble seat has ashtrays
That thing is in amazing shape. I would love to have something like this one day. Years ago, my buddies and I tried to buy a beater Volvo 240 wagon that we were going to make into a paintball tank. We got outbid unfortunately.
I love the rear facing 3rd row it reminds me of a movie called “the way way back”
God I miss huge station wagons.
Love it. This is WAY cooler than a DMC.
Oh man, what an amazing woodie! Love it! Love it! Love it!
That thing is just beyond awesome. You need one as a family hauler.
There have been a few youtubers to do vids pointing out "the quirks & features" of these malaise era wagons but none; I mean that honestly; None have had me smiling and remembering so vividly the fun I had in them as a kid. From the minute you started jumping around when he said he'd take you for a ride, til the time he pulled back in and you're planning when/what you're gonna do on the next ride. BTW, my first car was also a wagon; a 1975 AMC Hornet Runabout 258 ci 1bbl with +250K miles on it; in lemon yellow. As Bob Hope used to say: Thanks for the memories...now go fishing.
This is fabulous! My grandpa had a similar wagon...I think his was a Ford, though. It was white with wood paneling and he drove it for over 20 years, right up until the day he died. Sooooooo many fishing trips with 8 or 9 kids stuffed in it in the 80s and 90s! haha!!
Love the third row. That's where the most fun is 😏
Finally something worth watching on this channel. 😉 this would be a good home for a interesting engine, say BMW V12.
Dude, that wagon is pimp!! Forget the Viper, I want that swinger mobile. I actually once squeezed 12 hot chicks in my Dodge Magnum SRT driving Uber bringing them to a bar named Sharkez
Oh, how I miss Station Wagons...
We call them different names now.... SUV, crossover, 4 door hatch, blah blah blah. Just look around... They're still here. Mercedes and BMW still make traditional ones that look & drive decent, Dodge had the Magnum for a few years too.
Wow what a classic!
Perfect vacation car.
Oh yes, I do remember going up to the roller rink in the back of one of these!
Yes! Peak station wagon, just with all the curves shaved off. (OK, a 70's fuselage Newport-based Town and Country was prettier but the weight was absolutely uncalled for) But maximum roofline and maximum openable windows, a delight to sun-sensitive Gen X kiddoes everywhere. :) I guess they were actually cooler before Broughamized and then toned down.
And I spent too much damn time looking at the back of those parts bin GM headrests when I was a kid, dammit! (here's ten year old Olive still wanting to remake all GM interiors, particularly G-bodies that were OK on the outside but Tuppreware on the inside and with wheezy V-6ses that just cycled through idling athsma attacks over... and over.. and over... Slowly I turned... Step by step... )
Anyway, those things were pretty posh, compared to Malibus and stuff that were like, 'If we make everything you touch feel cheap, you'll assume you must be saving money.' I hated those things. My Da made me take my driver's test in it. I was like, 'The Celica's an extension of *me,* this is an appliance.'
Anyway, GM damage. It did work out ok. In any event, land-yachts are now cool cause the kids can't have anything else. And they do have their fun points. Always did. :)
Forget Vanlife, Wagonlife. 🤣🤣🤣
Thats a beauty!! My dream car is a 383 Polara wagon like my dad had. With the tow package, that thing was quick!
I remember working on those big boats at the begining of my career. Back when cars had room to work on. They were fun! Those in dash clocks did not work a lot when they got older. LOL.
Damn, if that wasn't fun. That wagon made you act exactly like me & probably everyone else here would.
"I'm triggered" hahahaha.....I mean, I guess we're kinda getting old? Whatever!
I'm glad you had fun! Was trying to keep it real.
@@CaseyPutsch mission accomplished!
Beautiful car! You really had never seen a tailgate like that before? Ultimate cross country cruiser. Road trip!
I love to get my hands on an AMC Ambassador wagon. great memories where made in one of those.
What a blast from the past. We needed a tow vehicle for my first race car, bought an old wagon like that one. I think it was an Olds, but pretty much the same car except sadly no wood. That and a crappy trailer made for interesting towing.
Lol Clark Griswold vibes!
The car (sorta) I grew up in. 1979 Chev Malibu. Structural corrosion caused all sorts of stress for my dad. But, after transitioning to a Mercury Topaz, my old man had regrets, to say the least.
Longroofs FTW!
Prior to the minivan, this was the raging cool family assault vehicle.
Does it bring out your inner Griswold?
The Pontiac 400 was the good motor in these. Most had either the Pontiac 301 or Oldsmobile 403.
I have a 1970s tan leather jacket that perfectly matches that car.
I love that station wagon
you talk about getting nine people in a car. My father had a Hillman Imp - about the same size as the original Mini and had nine in that. All that with a 940cc engine. Class
I got 9 in my 60's vw bug. XD
pretty impressive
Casey you need this kind of car for your family :)
Where I’m from (Costa Rica), these big American wagons have been used as hearses for years, so they are not very popular as personal or family cars. However, I’ve always wanted one of these and from time to time I find examples for sale that don’t cost that much. Last year I found a white 96 roadmaster that looked in pretty good condition and not that expensive. Toyed with the idea of buying it but I was deterred by the difficulty to sale it later on due to their reputation as hearses and the fact that fuel prices will make run away any potential buyer. If I were in the USA, I’d buy one of these right away!
I want one of these again
I love big old American cars - this, though not a Ford, reminds me of the station wagon in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I’m in the U.K. so you don’t see many of this kind of thing here - though the chap who lives round the corner from me owns a big old barge a 1959 Edsel Villager.
I remember in California when I was a kid in the 2000s people would do drive-bys in these things, so many times on the news we'd see the CCTV footage of that shit, ah to be 7 years old again!
The Gallardo is back from paint and you have some new students, I see! Okay, Shannon's wagon is pretty cherry.
My friends Dad had one of these when we were in High School. We would ride around and toss fireworks out of the back. Scare the crap out of the drivers behind us. It was fun until James lit a Cheery Bomb and tried to toss it while the window was UP ! Of course it exploded inside the car destroying our hearing and burning us. Lesson learned. Didn't do that anymore..
I might be biased but nice wagon.
This is the station wagon that the redhead from Dazed and Confused drove. Matthew McConaughey tried to pick her up at the Top Notch in Austin.
Getting a little spicy for youtube in this one. 😆
She’s a beaut Clark.
This is the car my parents had + a chrysler safari.
You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it.
*plays Holiday Road*
My dad had a 79 diesel custom cruiser wagon and later my mom had an 84 caprice wagon.
One day we were going to church on a Saturday evening and I was riding in the "way back" 3rd seat in the Caprice. I told my dad I thought he was about to get pulled over. He asked why. I said "cause a gray crown vic just made a u turn". Sure enough, an unmarked Indiana state trooper pulled us over. I think he got a warning.
I want to modern wrap it. Carbon fiber the wood, color pick it. Then wooden aero. 13/10
yikes.
Slam it putt $2000 wheels and $200 tires on it and take out the 400 and put in a honda 4 banger no cats 3in pipe and put speakers up the wazoo so you wake up the whole retirement community when your 2 stepping your other $2000 vw golf in the returement communitt at 9pm
a 78 should be a 403ci Olds engine. and a late 70s car is going to have negative horsepower or about 185hp, whichever you prefer.
Are you going to take it to the vintage race at Mid Ohio? 😝
These wood paneled station wagons are so cozy and american. They feel so useful and multipurpose compared to pickup trucks, that I honestly don't understand why americans switched to massive SUVs and pickups. I mean a station wagon is lower, should get better mpg (with today's engines), will keep your cargo dry unlike pickups, and fits a lot more people, too. Top it all up: they take up less space in the city, parking lot and yard. So what gives? The style is there.
My retirement plan is to get one of these. Pack it with an lq4/6 speed and racy suspension. Then I will criss cross north america driving all the great driving roads while sleeping in the back between adventures.
Casey I think you need me to drive this for you.... I got a nice stache 😎
Wagooooooooonn
Make it the Family Truckster
Chrysler Cordoba with the rich Corinthian leather
Oh man. I had a 77 grand safari. It was definitely different from everything else on the road in 2003.
Casey can you share what wrist watches you like?
This car is defective. A trash bag didn't come out of the steering wheel when you slammed the door.
Nice "Vacation" Reference. 👍
shaggin wagon gang
volvo v70 turbo
You can borrow my moustache.
Not as old and out of touch as I am...
BIg block!
Smogged up the ass, but yeah.
A Pontiac 400 is not a big block. All the Pontiac engines from 326-455 used the same size block.
If this was mine, you would definitely find me blasting out ‘little boy sweet’ whilst hoping to see a hot woman in a Ferrari 308.
"You know progressive things" lmao
Moustache
400 hp ha
Ok. Ok. Make it a rv with water tanks and refrigerator. Maybe some solar.
I feel like your on camera personality would have ruined the ride. I bet you're a nice guy off camera; but your loud obnoxious showboating would make me go crazy. Sometimes I'm thankful for mute.
Don't buy it, Taylor will not drive it over her Maserati. A Porsche Macan is a great family car. Plus, it has the advantage, you will be able to stick your nose at other people. Because they don't drive a Porsche.
Spoken like a true... (Oops, can't say that in a christian manga!)
Ha, the Weird Al UHF reference!
I love that movie, and it's free on youtube right now! (with ads, but adblocker makes it better)
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