Wow, what a wagon! I don’t know if I’ve said that before, and I’m a fan of station wagons. When I think of a Plymouth Suburban, I think of the late 1940s or early 1950s two-door model, but they would come back in the late 1960s and last until 1978. This 1974 Plymouth Gran Fury Sport Suburban is listed here on eBay in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and there is an unmet opening bid suggestion of $11,000 and no reserve after that.

The title is almost as long as this car is, but at about 19 feet, this car has a big presence. Check out that front bumper, that has to weigh as much as a 2017 Kia. This car looks amazing in most of the photos, and the seller mentions what they did to the exterior to get it to look this nice. Most of the paint has been buffed, but they say the woodgrain was toast, as this was a West Coast car. Unfortunately, under the woodgrain was damaged paint, so they had it stripped to bare metal under the woodgrain, painted those areas, and then recovered it with new woodgrain.

The Sienna Metallic paint appears excellent and is said to be original (other than under the woodgrain), and the whole exterior looks great in the photos. Plymouth offered the sixth-generation Fury and Gran Fury from 1973 for the 1974 model year, all the way until 1974… as in, just one model year. They are very rare to see today, and the Suburban, even more so. Seeing a Sport Suburban model has to be like finding a unicorn. A 19-foot-long, 5,000-pound unicorn.

We don’t know where on the West Coast this car is from, but clearly it wasn’t from the Pacific Northwest, which technically could be considered the West Coast. If it were, it would have preserved the interior much better than how this one appears, which is to say, somewhat burnt, cracked, and generally heat-damaged. That’s a bummer because the exterior sure looks great. The front seats, as you can see, are cracked, as is the dash, the door panels, and other areas, and the headliner appears to be missing, and the seller confirms that in their great description. The back seat looks perfect, however.

Ba-BOOM! There’s what everyone wants in their wagon, a 440-cu.in. OHV V8. Well, maybe not everyone, and with 250 horsepower and 350 lb-ft of torque, power is down quite a bit from the glory years, but still. Bragging rights alone, this is it. Backed by a TorqueFlite, of course, sending power to the rear wheels, this one has new valve cover gaskets due to the original ones leaking a bit, and it’s said to run and drive fine, but will smoke for a bit if you let it sit for a while. Any thoughts on this giant Sport Suburban?