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 about John Corey’s 1996 Buick Estate wagon. We owned a ’96 for many years and put about 325,000 miles on it before the car failed to pass emissions testing. It meant I could no longer license it in the Phoenix metro area, so I reluctantly sold it. Every summer we drove the Buick from Arizona to Bethany Beach, Delaware, usually putting 8,000 miles on it each round trip. The Roadmaster wagon was the most comfortable road-trip car I ever owned, and it wasn’t unusual to drive it 300 miles without stopping. It almost always averaged

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