my dad has been a buick guy for a loooong time. for years hed tell me buick had great muscle cars....never believed him. so a few summers ago i get hooked on 70 GSs never got off them. I like buicks preferably the GS, Riviera, and Gran National models because you go to a show and see chevys mopars and fords..... WHERES THE FUN in seeing the same cars for rows and rows and rows.....o No:
I own my 72 skylark because it was the baddest looking muscle car i had ever seen! Ha nah I was on my first tour in Iraq in 04 and I new when I got home I would need a bad ass ride when I got home. So I sent my mom a check for 5k and said "find me a bad ass chevelle,impala,el camino that i could fix up and just go all radical with it when I got home. Well we didnt have the internet in ramadi for about the first 6 months I was there so she was driving around all over nor*cal and the bay taking pictures of all these cars and sending them to me in the mail. I didn't like any of them!:blast: So finally we got the internet hooked up and she sent me an e-mail with this booger green car. I was like wtf is that thing????:idea2: I thought it was some really screwy pontiac or something but she said it was a buick skylark. I was like a skylark????? I was like what the hell buick did not make muscle cars??? She called me a an Idiot and said she owned a 70 gs 455 in high schoolou: I didnt beleive her at all. I was doin a sniper mission that lasted 10 days and I came back and she had emailed me tons of pics of this booger green skylark and this yellow and black raceing stripe 72 chevelle. The chevell was 5000 and the lark 2000! I was really really leaning towards the chevelle but I decided on my car because I had never seen one before and no one had any in stockton! The only cars I had owned before I joined the Army after I graduated were 72 ford galaxy and a beat up 72 ford sport custom. After my mom bought it I called her and it was like maybe 3 am in cali and about 5 pm the next day in iraq I ordered her to go outside and start the car so I could hear itray: Once I heard her rumble my deployment became very very easy! Sorry for the long post just thought I would share what I think is a very funny story and why I DRIVE A BUICK with you guys!:3gears:
When I was a kid, I liked Buicks from the sixties and seventies (which were just a few years old then) more than anything! Electras, Wildcats, LeSabres, Boattails... I liked big ones! And I still do! My first car was a '68 Buick Wildcat when I was 15. I bought it after looking at a few other Buicks for sale including a '75 Park Avenue, a '76 Electra Limited and a '65 Wildcat 4dr hardtop which I eventually got for free 12 years later! (and I still have this one...). And got Buicks ever since! My favourite models were the '65 LeSabre and Wildcat hardtop coupes long before I was old enough to drive! When I was in grade 5, one of my classmates got lifts to school in her mother's car (a rusted out '65 LeSabre Custom hardtop coupe with a very faded metallic green paint, surface rust all over the top, missing one hubcap on the left rear wheel and another on the rear front wheel and a huge tear on the black front seat) I was crazy aboout the front and rear end shape, I was impressed by the shape of the dashboard, all the window crank handles (6 instead of the usual two in the coupes of the eighties!) and I noticed that the car had tilt steering and it still had it's dealer nameplate on the trunk door. I already liked Buicks from the seventies like the red 71 Boattail in my neighborhood, a '74 Electra 225 coupe and my neighbor's nice black 76 LeSabre Custom hardtop sedan and another nice red '67 Wildcat hardtop coupe that had been for sale at a service station. (I had a few bicycle rides to see this one, in and out! This car even had Buick poverty caps and matching red wheels, very unusual on a Wildcat!) But the '65 was by far my favourite.
I drive a buick because I love the body lines on buicks and you don't see many buicks when you go to car shows. Everybody has chevelles, camaros, gto's, etc., so i like to be different.
I started working for SMYLY BUICK in 1986 after driving a grandnational i was hooked sold my 74 nova with a 427 for my down payment and ordered a new gn since all my cars are buicks and all are some type of good performance and all the luxury with one exception my tow rig is a 1985 bb suburban i will drive buicks for ever after i married 10 years ago my wife kinda felt left out even though she loved her sc regal she wanted to have an old car for us to enjoy we have the 87 gn 98 sc regal 94 roadmaster we figured that the best other option would be a skylark she wanted a hardtop i wanted a convertable after owning a 71 lesabre conv in high school and a 68 firebird conv i convinced her that i would only restore one more car and it would only be a conv. I got a call from an old friend 10 years ago he had a 70 sky conv with 181000 miles the car came to boston from florida in 86 and was in good shape with some good options. We bought it for 3500 and have been colecting parts ever since. we intend to make a great driver out of it and put a ton of mileage on it. if you are in the bosTon area or at shows and see a multi colored red some blk primer spots conv give a beep and waive it will be us cruising the old girl. and the vert is now growing on the wife after sitting for 10 years we have antique plates and are now driving it. with the help from this web site it has gotten me to get off my a$$ and start working on the car thanks to all you buick guys JAMIE @ ROBIN :beer
My GSX was love at first sight. Greatest muscle car ever built. Bought it new in October 1970. What more can I say.
I have a new reason: Everybody loves a Riviera. After crusing Woodward a couple of times, and just getting out onto the street I've learned that while unpopular at the time, the Boattail has matured into one hell of a classic. People stop and talk to me all the time, I've had people wait for me to come back to the car in parking lots, stop me at gas stations, roll down windows at stop lights to talk a bit. Old people, young people, Men, Women, the whole nine yards. I thought it was normal untill I was with a couple of other people that have more popular brands and they remarked "This doesn't happen to me, Everbody loves a Riviera,"
My reason wasnt listed? My ex wife grabbed me by the collar and said "we are not leaving without putting down a deposit" 18 months later when I kicked her lying, cheating ass to the gutter, she didnt want to take it. She took everything but a single matterss, a $50 tv, and a coffee table. So I got me a debt, a nice car, and a house of new stuff :TU: :bla:
"Performance with Class" says it for me. :bglasses: I fell in love with Buicks at about age 15. My best freind's Dad had a '66 Special 4-door that we swore only ran on 6 of the cylinders. About 5 years later he bought a red '61 225 convertible. What a great car that was! I've owned 7 Buicks over the years. The 6 listed below and a '95 Park Avenue that I bought when we had our first child. Traded that in for a minivan (wife's car) when our second was born. I will always drive a Buick.
Absolute kudo's to everyone that replied... I was a chev guy in high school and so was my shop teacher,but then i started to love the Oldsmobiles(still do) There were a few people in my class that had Buicks but i never appreciated them then. Started working at a Buick dealership and started driving Buicks and learned a new understanding of what these cars were all about. I've owned nothing but Buicks since. My wife asks me why i"d rather have a Buick than a Cadillac. A Cadillac is a status symbol and a Buick is almost a Cadillac but does things understatedly and much better. Love my Ultra!!
I have always been a fan of classic cars. During the late 70's then the 80's to present it seems that most car manufactures lost their passion for design and focused more on fuel economy and how technologically advanced thier cars to be over the competition. When you have a classic car that has a nice paint job and looks well maintained I could stare at it for hours and walk right by the $90k vette that looks like all the other vettes on the road. I was the original owner of a 1999 Ford expedition until this year. It did its famous thing and shot a spark plug out of the block (that model and year series where all known for it). I found out that its a common problem and Ford knows about it but can't recall all of the millions of Fords on the road. So after getting it working I sold it and wanted something without a computer that can go bad or idividual coil packs above each spark plug and the big one for me, an engine compartment where I can put a park bench on the battery side and sit on it while working on the engine. Sorry for the long post, just had to get that off my chest.
I've had a little bit of everything. A few Mustangs, a couple Darts, even a `67 Coronet RT Hemi back in `76, but mostly Chevys(Chevelles, Camaros, Novas, Impalas). A little over 6 years ago I wanted something different, something I've never had before so I made a mental list of the cars I've always loved the body style of and a `65 Skylark was on top of the list. I especially wanted the halo roof. I started looking and found the one I have. It was on ebay and as soon as I saw the picture of it I knew that was the one. It was in Sarasota and had been a Florida car it's whole life and belonged to the 3rd owner, a 65 year old gentleman who was the president of the Sarasota Buick club at the time. I emailed him for a phone number. We talked more and he sent me more pictures and I bought it. I love the attention it gets. It's the car in my avatar. It was all original when I bought it but obviously I've made a few changes :grin: I've heard everything from "Wow, you never see these cars anymore" to "What year Chevelle is that?" to "Hey, nice old Impala you have there". Oh well, pretty hard to fix the uninformed. Bill
I bought mine because I like the cars no one else likes. To be honest I just get tired of going to car shows and seeing 15 Chevelles in a row, 40 Mustangs, 35 Camaros, and countless numbers of Grand Nationals. Don't get me wrong, I love nearly any and all American cars, it's just I want my car to stand out and make people ask me "What kind of car is that?" I will then be glad to answer that it is a 1963 Buick Special Deluxe with the Aluminum Fireball V8! Plus owning the ones no one else likes pays off. For example, I traded my old, rusty '66 Rambler Classic 770 for a low mileage 1997 Cadillac Catera that only needed a oil cooler. Not a bad trade considering the Rambler was only worth about $1200 and the Catera is worth $3000.
