1968 Chevy Caprice Wagon on BaT Is a Sixties Suburban Schooner
This late-Sixties station wagon is a wood-paneled behemoth.
Under the hood, it's packing some big-block V-8 firepower.
It's also heavy optioned, with air conditioning, a third-row seat, and basically power everything.
One of the episodes from the first season of That '70s Show sees Bob Pinciotti and Red Forman driving around trying to find their kids and bust up plans for a keg party. When Bob opines on the difficulty of the task, Red delivers one of his best lines: "Look, they left the house in a wood-paneled ocean liner. We should be able to find them." Station wagons are a rarity these days, but once upon a time, these mighty leviathans ruled the suburban seas.
A fine example is this 1968 Chevrolet Caprice that's up for sale on Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos). It had pretty much every option box ticked, and it has more wood paneling than the average '70s rec room.
This particular example is actually built in Canada; it was produced in Quebec and delivered to London, Ontario. The first owner was clearly a well-heeled sort, as the car was delivered with power door locks, power windows (including the tailgate window), a power front seat, air conditioning, cruise control, extra speakers, and hideaway headlights.
That's a lot of fancy for a Chevrolet, and things get even better when you open that aircraft-carrier-sized hood. Underneath is a 396-cubic-inch V-8 that was rated for 325 (gross) horsepower when new, breathing through a four-barrel carburetor. It rumbles just the way you want, and it gets power to the ground through a three-speed automatic transmission.
The odometer here reads 64K miles, though true mileage is listed as unknown. The color's also not the original light gold but a rich-looking shade called Autumn Metallic. It really suits this big barge, which is capped off with whitewall tires on 15-inch rally-style wheels.
Plenty of work has been done here, including replacing the headliner, air conditioning, and shocks plus tuning up the engine with new plugs and wires and replacing the brakes. With two massive bench seats and a rear-facing third row, there's enough room in here for the whole gang (plus or minus the keg). This land yacht is ready to hit the tarmac seas.
The auction ends on Wednesday, February 19.
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