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My Old Buick

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My first car, a 1959 Buick LeSabre, from when I had to sell it back in 1988. Oh how I loved this beast. Two tons of steel, 250 horsepower, no seatbelts, curved glass, fins forever. You could be driving along at 55 mph, stomp on the gas and still feel yourself thrown back in the seat. Broke down all the time, but I learned so much by repairing it. A lot of fantastic memories wrapped up in this old beastie, I wonder where she is now, hopefully still operating.
2 years ago

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MackReed pro 2 years ago
Beauty.
williwaw pro 2 years ago
AWWWW what a great car!!
wjcstp pro 2 years ago
Gorgeous, and a great story. That thing probably has more space in the trunk than many modern pickups in their beds.
rogrtheshrubber pro 2 years ago
Now _that_ is a Cruising Vessel
kokogiak 2 years ago
@wjcstp - surprisingly, the trunk is smaller than you'd think, and fairly useless for larger things - it's broad, but shallow, and tapers pretty drastically, and the lid does not lift very high. I carried a chair in it once, and had to use a half-dozen bungee cords just to keep it stable.
kokogiak 2 years ago
But the engine compartment was so huge, I could sit on the fender with my feet inside while working on the engine.
dapete 2 years ago
Isn't that Brad's car from Fast Times?
wjcstp pro 2 years ago
@kokogiak It looks really long from that angle, but I think those fins fooled me into thinking the trunk would also be deep
kokogiak 2 years ago
@dapete - close! Brad's is a 1960 model, a bit more rounded and subdued. There was one briefly in Raising Arizona, though. http://www.imcdb.org/i061748...
jpoulos pro 2 years ago
Those fins a positively *horny*...

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