San Antonio Yard Run 3/2/19

Went yarding down in San Antonio this past Saturday. First I found this loaded '96 Roady Wagon. Car was basically rust-free and only had 129K miles on it...but man they look like HARD miles!! Had military tags on it so my guess is that it spent much of it's life roasting in a base parking lot. I had never seen a Roady with seat memory switches, pretty cool. I nabbed the hood ornament and some other items for my car and the 6spd project.






There were also these three Caprice wagons in the yard. Pretty picked-over but if you needed rust-free metal there was a lot.




Always fun to hit the yards!

-Michael

Wow, I don't know if it's a good thing or not that there are so many wagons and B-bodies there. I don't check locally in Houston as much as I would like to, but haven't seen much at all lately when I've looked. It's nice having cars to get parts from, but kind of depressing that so many wagons and B's are dying.

That 96 does look rough, but at least it still has all its rub strips! Did it have the CD radio? That seems to be a rare option, even on otherwise loaded cars.

jon7190 wrote:

Wow, I don't know if it's a good thing or not that there are so many wagons and B-bodies there. I don't check locally in Houston as much as I would like to, but haven't seen much at all lately when I've looked. It's nice having cars to get parts from, but kind of depressing that so many wagons and B's are dying.

That 96 does look rough, but at least it still has all its rub strips! Did it have the CD radio? That seems to be a rare option, even on otherwise loaded cars.

Yep, CD player! I was surprised it didn't have the engine-driven fan. It was a LOADED car. It did have the external transmission cooler. Weird right??

Lucky. The yards around here haven't had a B body since last summer.

Mike you see a Garnett Red Caprice tailgate, I NEED it. I'm shopping locally for one (any color), but a red one please grab it. Give me an excuse to drive to Round Rock. I need to get my pinball machine anyway...

Sprocket, There is supposed to be a 94-96 RM tailgate on the Daytona Beach Craigslist. It is in Debary, FL.

https://daytona.craigslist.org/pts/d/palm-coast-buick-estate-wagon-lt1/6814413013.html

Sprocket wrote:

Mike you see a Garnett Red Caprice tailgate, I NEED it.   I'm shopping locally for one (any color), but a red one please grab it.  Give me an excuse to drive to Round Rock.  I need to get my pinball machine anyway...

Only if you drive out in that new wagon!!!

No tow pack is strange. I'll bet upwards of 80% of Roadmaster wagons have the tow pack, just guessing based on casual observation. Anybody know an official stat on that?

wow - i never have seen a roadie with memory seats. I have some RM parts for sale on CL in tampa - already sold the sedan spare wheel cover and my wagon black rubber trim

Looks like I need to go junk-yarding next time I'm down south. I hit most all the junk yards in the Flint area last few days. Flint, also known as Buick City is where the brand started. I figured there had to be a lot of Roadmasters. Apparently, the rust factor made me very wrong on that assumption.

Just two Roadies combined, though there is supposedly a yard 40 miles north with some. I thanked the guy and said I'd head up there before they became figure-8 racers.

They were all very nice, and liked my car.

last summer I looked at a blue rmw near clearwater, before I found the one I bought. It was beat and I passed on it, but it had the tow pack, memory & heated seats.

Maybe it was a regional thing, option wise, but every Roady I see, mine included, had the memory buttons. Weird.