5k: Bucket List: 2002 Buick LeSabre Custom
The Buick LeSabre had the title of best selling full sized car in North America when it was discontinued in 2004. Why Buick discontinued a best seller or why a Buick would have been a best seller in 2004 is lost to us, but the fact remains that boat loads of old folks bought and still buy new full sized Buicks. The result is a regular supply of lightly used Buicks of recent vintage when the owners kick the bucket…hence the addition of this LeSabre to DT’s bucket list. Find this 2002 Buick LeSabre
for sale in Richmond, VA currently bidding on ebay for $4,350 reserve-not-met with 4 days to go.
DT’s bucket list isn’t a list of cars that we want to own before we kick the bucket…quite the opposite…it is a list of cars we want to own when the current owner’s kick the bucket. It is a morbid list and includes Buicks, Cadillacs, Mercedes and an occasional young celebrity vehicle because those kids seem to find a way to knock themselves off with a regular frequency. It would be really handy if the newspaper combined the obituaries with the classifieds: Mr X died yesterday natural causes and he is survived by his wife, kids, grandkids and a 2002 Buick LeSabre with 38k miles on the odometer….
The Buick LeSabre was LePowered by one and only one engine – the…wait for it… legendary Buick 3800 V6. This one is a series II engine and puts out an astounding 205 horsepower from its 3.8 liters (with those kind of power densities you can’t help but understand why the LeSabre was a best seller…).
The inside of this Buick looks like a pair of lightly used sweatpants — comfy and ready for your butt. In a vehicle like this one, we prefer the cloth to leather, as the leather cracks and ages within months of leaving the factory but the cloth interior will survive unscathed for years. The only time you would prefer the leather is if the owner dies in the car, as leather is easy to wipe down while cloth will require considerable shampooing and special equipment to rid it of dead guy funk.
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This was the best laugh I have had all year… Of course it is only Jan. 2! But seriously, this posting was seriously funny. Thanks!
Bobinott
And, of course, it has the highly prized rainguards on all four windows, so no need to get wet at all.
So true. The low-mileage, elderly-owner niche car is not just imagined. Ever since I can remember, there have been certain models of cars for sale that you could expect to see time and time again with low miles and an owner who quit driving. Here in the Cornhusker State, you would find them on estate auction hand bills tacked on the gas station bulletin boards. There used to be a lot of Chrysler K-car types and Tempos, but now you see more respectable cars like this Buick (supercharged if you are lucky) and sometimes Northstar Caddies.
And I know for a fact the "pint stripes" on this year model was a 5K option….
Geez thanks! My first visit to DT in 2014 and you make me spit coffee through my nose all over my keyboard! Well typed sir, well typed!
you guys win the interwebs today. seriously lol
Hell is filled with Buicks…………
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