SIA Flashback – 1954 Buick Century Estate Wagon: Buick’s Second Century

With the Cadillac CTS-V station wagon now hitting the streets, plenty of people are talking about muscle wagons, a segment arguably started by the 1954 Buick Century Estate Wagon – essentially a mid-sized Super Special chassis fitted with the full-size Roadmaster’s 322-cu.in. V-8. Of course, nobody called it a muscle wagon then, but the link between the two isn’t too hard to see. Terry Boyce gave us a driveReport on the wagon in SIA #83, October 1984.

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