Buick 🤮🤮

[Old_Me]

By some Amazing Cosmic Coincidence, a post by mikep sent me looking for a particular Tom Petty song, which I've enjoyed hundreds of times, but had never seen the video of before. Spoiler Alert: There's a Buick in it, a real Land Yacht/Road Pillow, in a semi-starring role.

i think that might be a 1970's (ish) Electra Deuce

 

[powerboatr]

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.
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and change front and rear fenders and grill ...we get a caddy

 

[KillerFord1977]

and change front and rear fenders and grill ...we get a “hoopdie”View attachment 42438

Fixed it for you

 

[Bohica]

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

When I was a kid, Dr.'s all made house calls and drove Buicks due to their roominess and dependability

 

[Snake45]

My Mom's dream car was always "a baby-blue Buick convertible." I suspect she was thinking of some late-40s or early '50s model.

After a lifetime of Chevies, my parents moved up to a LeSabre in---I think it was around 1974. Their last Impala was a gray '72. (I took my driver's license test in their green '70, and the coolest Chev they ever had IMHO was a Sequoia Green '68.) From there they moved up to a series of Caddies and Lincoln Town Cars. Dad was still driving his Caddy when he died in 2018.

 

[Onewolf426]

I'm kinda partial to the 1965 Buick Riviera myself.

 

[Snake45]

I'm kinda partial to the 1965 Buick Riviera myself.

Me too. IMHO it's nearly the perfect automobile design. The only thing I don't like about it is the whole rear end, which looks like it was designed to meet a 5:00 Friday deadline and only started about 3:45. The '64 and '65 Skylark and even the entry-level Special had a MUCH better looking rear end.

So did the '66 Riviera. Someday I'm going to build a model of The Perfect Riviera. It'll be a '65, except the whole rear end will be from the '66. I have both kits and the skill to pull it off. Not that I've given the whole plan any thought, or anything.

 

[Annihilator]

Only Buick that was cool, the 1970 Skylark GSX 455

 

[Bassbob]

Buick in the 60s were cool. Skylark and Riviera for sure.