I've had a love affair with cars since I was 13
And I've spent lots of money on them down through the years. I'll list them all here. I started out at 17 in a 1986 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale Brougham that floated on a cloud and had this pinky effort steering that Hans mentioned. I traded that in for a 1991 Cadillac Eldorado Biarittz. I loved that car but it had a very different feel to it than the Olds, in retrospect I should've got a Sedan de Ville. While I had the Cadillac I also owned two Buicks because I became so finicky with Cadi that I didn't want it driven in the rain. So, back to an '86 but this time it was a Buick Park Avenue, I kept it a few years and sold it when I bought a 1990 Buick Park Avenue Ultra, this car was an absolute dream and I should have kept it. Running strong at 260,000 miles I traded it in on a 1995 Pontiac Bonneville SSEi with the supercharged 3800. This car had the best seats in it of any car I've ever owned but it also was the car that took me away from GM for a period of time. It had many "stupid" problems come up and at 83k the transmission went. It was going to cost $3,000 because it tore itself up so bad it had to be completely replaced. I traded it with the bad tranny on a 2003 Mazda 6s. This was a nice fully optioned and custom ordered vehicle and was the first brand new car I have ever bought. It was a good car but ate CV joints every 30k and brakes ever 40k. That crap got old and it finally started running poorly at 130k, it nearly quit on me on the interstate. That was enough for me and was when I got into my present car. Returning to GM and Buick was a good thing for me with the 2010 LaCrosse CXS. This car is as close of a modern interpretation of the old style as you can get in my opinion. It has light steering, cloud like ride, and a feature list a half mile long. I can't think of any feature among any of the modern luxury sedans that is not found in the Buick.
However, I do have a love for the classics, particularly the 50's cars and more concentrated with GM's line. I am particularly in love the 58 model year of Buick and Cadillac, this was the first years of dual headlamps and Buick had more chrome on their cars in '58 than any other GM or Big 3 car of that year. This was the age of excess and how I wish our economy, morals, and personal pride would return to those glorious days, the likes of which I'm not old enough to have known.
And I've spent lots of money on them down through the years. I'll list them all here. I started out at 17 in a 1986 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale Brougham that floated on a cloud and had this pinky effort steering that Hans mentioned. I traded that in for a 1991 Cadillac Eldorado Biarittz. I loved that car but it had a very different feel to it than the Olds, in retrospect I should've got a Sedan de Ville. While I had the Cadillac I also owned two Buicks because I became so finicky with Cadi that I didn't want it driven in the rain. So, back to an '86 but this time it was a Buick Park Avenue, I kept it a few years and sold it when I bought a 1990 Buick Park Avenue Ultra, this car was an absolute dream and I should have kept it. Running strong at 260,000 miles I traded it in on a 1995 Pontiac Bonneville SSEi with the supercharged 3800. This car had the best seats in it of any car I've ever owned but it also was the car that took me away from GM for a period of time. It had many "stupid" problems come up and at 83k the transmission went. It was going to cost $3,000 because it tore itself up so bad it had to be completely replaced. I traded it with the bad tranny on a 2003 Mazda 6s. This was a nice fully optioned and custom ordered vehicle and was the first brand new car I have ever bought. It was a good car but ate CV joints every 30k and brakes ever 40k. That crap got old and it finally started running poorly at 130k, it nearly quit on me on the interstate. That was enough for me and was when I got into my present car. Returning to GM and Buick was a good thing for me with the 2010 LaCrosse CXS. This car is as close of a modern interpretation of the old style as you can get in my opinion. It has light steering, cloud like ride, and a feature list a half mile long. I can't think of any feature among any of the modern luxury sedans that is not found in the Buick.
However, I do have a love for the classics, particularly the 50's cars and more concentrated with GM's line. I am particularly in love the 58 model year of Buick and Cadillac, this was the first years of dual headlamps and Buick had more chrome on their cars in '58 than any other GM or Big 3 car of that year. This was the age of excess and how I wish our economy, morals, and personal pride would return to those glorious days, the likes of which I'm not old enough to have known.
