- My name is Jay Law and I'm from Andover, Minnesota and I am the proud owner of a 1957 Buick Century Caballero s state wagon.

The Buick Caballero was a four door hard top station wagon and they only made 'em in 1957 and 1958.

In 57 they made a little over 10,000 of them in 58 I think they made around probably 5,000 of them and that was it, just those two years.

So it is kind of a, a unique car.

I guess.

The price of this car, brand new in 1957 was just under $4,000, which in 2023 equates to about just under $44,000, which is actually quite a bit of money for even today's cars.

Every day is a nice day for a drive.

I guess When I brought this car home from Canada, I drove it for about four years.

The engine was getting a little tired, the tranny was, had a few leaks so I decided to get the engine overhauled and tranny overhauled and once we had the engine out of the car, I looked at the engine bay and I said, probably be a good time to, to re maybe repaint that engine bay up a little bit.

To make a long story short, it ended up being a total restoration, but like I said, I don't, I don't regret it one bit.

I'm glad I did it.

The speedometer on this thing, it's actually a cylinder and it's black and orange.

As you start driving it, building up speed, that cylinder actually spins so that red mark starts showing up and the faster you go the farther that red mark goes on the speedometer and it's actually pretty accurate.

This car is mainly, I think it was built for cruising.

It's got the original 360 4 nail head which put out 300 horsepower and it's original to the car.

The transmission also, I still have the dynaflow transmission in it original to the car.

I've been looking for 25 years.

Specifically for this car, I've seen seven of a total of seven of them and that's including my car.

I don't know how many are around.

I wish I knew, but I haven't seen any that many I should say in 25 years.

Although I do know of two that are being under construction in the state of Minnesota.

I don't know where they're at as far as how far along they are or what their plans are with them, but I do know of two more that are being rebuilt at the front end on these 57 Buicks, they put a lot of chrome on 'em and there's a lot of weight there too.

But you'll notice they did put the year of the car 1957.

I think they did that a couple years on the Buicks, but this one's the red, white and blue emblem, which was characteristic of Buick.

The hood ornament was kind of unique to the Buick.

Also in the 57 Buicks there's a fuel door right here in the middle of the bumper.

This is where you add your gas and it's pretty easy to get at so, And you do have to stop several times to get gas with this car.

This 57, there was an option for a third row seat back then, and this actually does have the third row back seat.

It's also got the luggage rack.

That's era correct there too.

That's two of the options that it's got.

These travel stickers on the car actually came with the car.

It's been up and down the west coast.

Many of 'em are from Canada because the car originally came from Canada, built in Michigan, but it was sold to a party up in British Columbia, Canada.

So that explains a lot of the Canadian stickers.

Yeah, I try to take this to as many car shows as I can and I think one thing that attracts people to it is they, they never seen one before, but the only thing I have to do now is tinker with it once in a while, which I really enjoy doing and it's a lot of fun to drive.