Buick 🤮🤮

[KillerFord1977]

My quest is complete… I found the names of the 80’s - 90’s Buick designers and engineers who made the most god awful, ugly and just down right homely cars only a mother could love . About as much pizzazz as grandma snoring with her teeth out. Always wondered what bafoon GM hired.

This design team should be kicked square in “the goods”.
Bill, Ted, Jerry and Gary from Design Studio’s 1&2. Worst aesthetics of a car ever . They passed the MBA Engineering class on how to make things Homely

A GM line that should have been cancelled long ago ..bet Jerry went on to run Hi-Point

1986 Buick LaSabre

<em>Inside Buick</em> magazine interviews Bill Porter on the design of the 1986 Buick LeSabre.

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[Belt Fed]

They're almost as beautiful as a hi point.

 

[KillerFord1977]

They're almost as beautiful as a hi point.

Almost ….

 

[nmedge]

When I was selling cars I sold a lot of Buicks! Of course customers were in their 70's and 80's and probably couldn't see very good but made good money at the time.

 

[Cedric]

OTOH, I would love to have a 1987 Buick Grand National GNX. but I don't have $95K+ to spare.

 

[Hammer67]

They're almost as beautiful as a hi point.

Hi Points and late-model Buicks go together like.....well....um.....like that.

 

[KillerFord1977]

Hi Points and late-model Buicks go together like.....well....um.....like that.

 

[mikep]

My old man had one similar to this that he inherited from his father…. Butt ugly, big and a tank. I will say, though, the backseat was huge, which had its benefits.

 

[Mr.W.]

Buffoons, indeed. My parents owned a Buick in the early sixties. Father claimed it was the most dependable vehicle he'd ever owned. Buick-the longest surviving American car company.

 

[mikep]

They're almost as beautiful as a hi point.

Almost. But not quite.

 

[KillerFord1977]

OTOH, I would love to have a 1987 Buick Grand National GNX. but I don't have $95K+ to spare.

There was a post about a brick with an engine called an F4 Phantom
The Grand National was shaped like a brick with an engine

 

[HayesGreener]

52 Buick for me. I like aggressively ugly

 

[Bassbob]

My mom had an Electra 225 ( Deuce and a quarter is what the bruthas called it). It was nice.

 

[mikep]

52 Buick for me. I like aggressively ugly

“Aggresively ugly”
I’ll be using this.

 

[Onewolf426]

Most cars from those years were butt ugly.

 

[Snake45]

I drove a '65 Special 2D Post Coupe in high school. I'm currently looking for another one--any '64 or '65 Special or Skylark 2-door hardtop or sedan, any color, any power combo will do.

 

[Grayfox]

But always remember, Buick was one of the best lines GM had.

 

[jumpinjoe]

My old man had one similar to this that he inherited from his father…. Butt ugly, big and a tank. I will say, though, the backseat was huge, which had its benefits.

Your dad told you that???? LOL! I had a couple over a lot of years ... A 1960 LaSaber 4 door (talk about a butt ugly tank but cheap and necessary at the time) and some years later bought the young bride a '76 Skylark or Special, can't remember for sure right now, but it was only a year or two old. Neat little car and she really liked it.

About two weeks after we'd bought it, she was backing down the driveway one day with my kicker boat on the trailer parked along side her Buick. Well, she heard some strange noise and felt a strange pulling to the passenger side of her new car, before she realized she had hooked the 'A' pillar just in front of the front door on the guide/light rail on my boat trailer. Yep, drug that boat damn near the whole length of the driveway (2 1/2 car lengths) and cut a gouge in the right front fender about 1 foot long.

Honey, said I, why in hell didn't you stop when you heard the gad-awful noise? Her answer was that since the passenger window was up and drivers window was down, it sounded like the noise was coming from the next door neighbor's house. Well Ok thought I, did you think the damned dragging sideways was from the neighbor's house too? And I would've thought you might have seen the boat coming down the driveway with you!!! Well, she cried and I felt terrible for hollering at her, so I just kept my mouth shut and hugged her a little. And then over the next couple weeks I repaired the fender and door on the car then painted it. Good as new and we never mentioned it again. Took a hell of a lot longer to get my boat and trailer fixed though. True story. jj

jj

 

[Annihilator]

And these Fords were not ugly, more fugly then a Buick, just sayin

 

[jumpinjoe]

Anni said: "And these Fords were not ugly, more fugly then a Buick, just sayin"

'Bout like the FOX bodied Mustangs!!! Yessiree! jj