Buick Roadmaster

The Roadmaster was an automobile built by the Buick division of General Motors. Buick revived the Roadmaster name for a B-body station wagon in 1991, replacing the Estate station wagon in the lineup. The wagon was called the Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon. A sedan joined it for 1992. The Buick Roadmaster was very similar to the Chevrolet Caprice, and Oldsmobile sold a nearly-identical Custom Cruiser wagon for 1991 and 1992. Standard on all Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagons were woodgrain sides and a Vista Roof, a fixed sunroof over the second row seats. The Estate Wagon could seat up to eight with an optional third row seat. All these wagons initially used Chevrolet’s 5.0 L small-block V8, but both Buicks used the larger 5.7 L version from 1992. However, GM discontinued both the Buick Roadmaster sedan and the Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon in 1996. This was blamed on the smaller Park Avenue growing in size, but was in reality a response to the SUV craze. Buick Roadmaster is the car Neil Young drove from his home in Canada the whole way to L.A where he started his solo career. He also wrote a song dedicated to it, “Long may you Run”.