Recent article on BarnFinds dot com Bargain Luxury: 1974 Buick Electra Limited As the top model for Buick’s full-sized C-body, the Limited was a stylish luxury car available in a four-door hardtop, two-door hardtop, and two-door Landau model. By 1973, the car had federally mandated 5mph front bumpers. This 1974 Buick Electra Limited sedan can be found posted on craigslist in Havre de Grace, Maryland and the seller is asking $5,300. Back in 1980, I bought a perfect 1971 Buick Electra 225 four-door hardtop for the princely sum of $750! It still kills me that I sold it a few months later for that same amount to buy some PA equipment for the band that I was in at the time. What a waste, I’d love to have that car now. It wasn’t a Limited and had green vinyl seats, but man, what a car. This seller has provided a lot of good photos, rare for a craigslist ad, nice work! They even included a few underside photos and they say that it’s rust-free under there. 1974 brought new, bigger 5-mph rear bumpers to these cars and I think Buick handled it pretty nicely. This Buick has as big of a trunk as you thought it would and it looks fairly clean. The fourth-generation Electra was made from 1971 to 1976 and they were about a foot longer than the next-generation cars that came out in ’77 during GM’s downsizing era. It may be a trick of light and shadow, but there appears to be some variation in the paint on this beautiful Buick. The seller does acknowledge that it has some touch-ups and dings but it looks pretty nice to me. I wish my Electra 225 would have had a fabric interior like this car does. I believe this may be Lombardy cloth in burgundy, which was the standard seating material on the Electra Limited. You can see the dash pad, and the seller says that the dash does have a few cracks. They go on to say that the AC needs to be charged (which usually means that it needs a lot of expensive work), and the heater core has been bypassed, so there’s some work to do inside. The engine is a big 455-cu.in. OHV V8, which had somewhere around 210 horsepower, or a bit more depending on the carburetor. This one runs great, but they say that there is an exhaust manifold leak to be tinkered with. Given the relatively low asking price and the amount of car available here, this seems like a good deal. Any thoughts on this Electra Limited?
