The Cambridge dictionary defines the word sport (noun /spɔrt, spoʊrt/) as a game, competition, or similar activity, done for enjoyment or as a job, that takes physical effort and skill and is played or done by following particular rules. I’m not sure if the product planners at Buick in 1988 understood the word when they released […]
We continue our celebration of lunacy with this next Loony Labor Day piece of automotive art….and boy does it have a big grin. Not every Buick afficianado is going to appreciate a four (?) porthole Buick with an insane set of customizations — every single opening is backwards, scissored or funkified. Overall the package is […]
GM’s Vega (1971-1980) was such a smashing success in the world of domestic crap boxes that GM’s product planners took notice and said with a slurrr….hold..mah…beer. Four years later GM introduced a line of miserable penalty boxes that were slightly less compact and called the Chevy Monza, Pontiac Sunbird, Oldsmobile Starfire, and Buick Skyhawk. Today’s […]
Let’s kick off DT’s 4th of July extended weekend of AMERICANA a few hours early with this next tribute to all things from the land of the red, the white, and the blue. For the next three days we publish nothing but freedom here. There are few things more American than a huge woodgrain sided […]
The Special returned to the Buick lineup in 1961 after a two year hiatus — but instead of being an entry level full-size, it was now a compact unibody sedan built on GM’s Y-platform. The Buick, Oldsmobile, & Pontiac “senior compacts” shared the same unibody undercarriage, suspension, and aluminum V8, but styling was up to […]
Most of the new things you can find at the Buick dealer in 2023 is a Chinese built SUV or crossover with a name that starts with “En” (wtf happened to you Buick?), but there was a time when GM’s Buick division engineered and released their own piece of advanced technology — and I’m not […]
This next car came with a description by the seller of a “Star Wars air cleaner” and I had to take a look and see just what that could be. And yes…it does look like a part from a land speeder or the Millennium Falcon has been repurposed to allow this 430 cubic inch V8 […]
I learned a new word salad string to add to my lexicon of automotive nonsense today; “a true black pearl find”. I’m not sure if that relates to the secretions of a mollusk or the movie based on a Disneyland amusement park ride, but I think that it is meant to indicate some sort of […]
This next car is just in time for Halloween. It isn’t your typical horrorod, but in the theme of Halloween, we’ve got a Buick wagon wearing an off-road costume. I like it! Find this 1987 Buick Electra Wagon bidding for $4250 reserve-not-met with 2 days to go, located in Grinnell, IA via eBay. From the […]
The Buick Park Avenue was the last of the G-platform cars to leave the GM production lines as the era of GM’s big-V6 front-drive luxury sedan dominance came to an end. The last Park Avenues to leave the factory were a batch of 3,000 Ultra Special Editions with a cool little NYC skyline badge on […]