1976 Buick..
If you asked me hich car was my favorite when I was growing up, I would say the 1974 Electra 225 Limited we had. I loved the look of that car! (I'm looking frantically for a picture of it!)
Well the 74 was traded in for a 1978 Electra, which at the time was not all that exciting. I learned to drive on the '78, and grew to really love that car! My parents offered me the '78 a couple of times, but what I really wanted was a '74 -'76. I cruised car dealers and the classifieds looking for a '76(this would have been summer-fall of 1982--I was 18) and found nothing. There were '74-'76 Electras out there, but most of them were well used. I finally found my '76 in January of 1983, at the Oldsbobile dealer in Schaumburg. The car had 40,334 miles on it when I first drove it, and it was love at first sight! I paid $2800 for it, seemed like alot at the time, and they even gave me the name of the original owner who'd traded it in for a new 1983 Delta 88 Royal Brougham!
I loved that '76! A year after I bought it I took it to a local body shop and had all little rust spots fixed, and the whole car painted and a new vinyl top put on. It looked beautiful!
I kept the '76 until 1988. I still don't know why I sold it, I didn't need to really, but I did. I bought my first NEW Buick in May of 1988(An Electra Estate Wagon), and my dad was grumbling about all the cars around, so I sold the '76. I got $1500 for it!
I'll never forget though, I remember my dad coming home from work one evening shortly after the '76 was sold and he commented to me about how strange it was to come home and NOT the that "big old Buick" sitting in the driveway.
I still regret selling that car!
