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THANK YOU FOR THE RECENT Classic Car issue featuring the Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon on the cover. I got great pleasure out of reading the article. There is always a lot of focus on the Corvette-engine models, but the very earliest wagons didn’t have that engine and usually writers forget they exist.

I am the lucky owner of a 63,000-mile 1991 version equipped with a 5.0-liter. By the size of the oil filter and some other parts it appears it is a 305-cu.in. engine and not a 307. In any event, it isn’t speedy. It is a Plain-Jane 9-seat version in silver blue with no wood sides, with a dark blue velour interior and tilt wheel. It has power windows and air conditioning, but no power seat, no cruise

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