I don’t exactly shed a tear when someone makes a lowrider out of a garden-variety Regal. When they start cutting up perfectly good Grand Nationals is when I have a problem.
Maybe one day Detroit will see that people actually like their cars enough to mortgage their futures for one…but only the ones that look and feel American. Perception gap and all that too…
The article claims that the owner rebuilt the original engine, then, a couple paragraphs down, it says that it’s a 350. No way is that original unless it’s a diesel, which I kinda doubt.
A total waste of a perfectly good G-body. The drugs of the 60’s and 70’s are partially to blame for this meaningless nonsense and destruction of property. And these year Regals came from the factory with 3.8 liter V6’s with 2bbl carbs for low end models, turbochargers for the T-Types and Grand Nationals and 307 Olds V8’s were the only V8 options from 86-87.
Those plain Jane Regals and Cutlasses were about as common as air molecules when I was growing up. Everyone in my neighborhood seemed to have 1 and many had 2 in the family. Utterly unremarkable cars and one hardly sees any stock survivors these days. If someone wants to celebrate them in this fashion I’m all for it.
GM press release – 2009 Geneva Auto Show:
In spite of our limited development budget, we would like to introduce our stylish and progressive new concept car to the world. We call it the Buick Autoclave.
We believe that this prototype shows that GM has a firm grasp on its future, and we are well on our way to increasing market share.
Riiiiiiiide low and slow
Livin’ the low life
The doors were removed and a fiberglass casing was added to each side with tweed cutouts in the center.
Tweed? How very civilized.
I don’t exactly shed a tear when someone makes a lowrider out of a garden-variety Regal. When they start cutting up perfectly good Grand Nationals is when I have a problem.
It’s not quite the same thing when they do it to a Camry, is it?
Better here than in the scrap heap.
Maybe one day Detroit will see that people actually like their cars enough to mortgage their futures for one…but only the ones that look and feel American. Perception gap and all that too…
Tasteful
The USA is a frightening place; along with WWF and the continued use of imperial measurement there are these sub-cultures of sub-cultures.
Is that really his daughter?
The adjustable ground clearence will do wonders in the mean streets of the Rust Belt.
I suspect that Eddie and his family live in a trailer. But what a ride… LOL
The article claims that the owner rebuilt the original engine, then, a couple paragraphs down, it says that it’s a 350. No way is that original unless it’s a diesel, which I kinda doubt.
A total waste of a perfectly good G-body. The drugs of the 60’s and 70’s are partially to blame for this meaningless nonsense and destruction of property. And these year Regals came from the factory with 3.8 liter V6’s with 2bbl carbs for low end models, turbochargers for the T-Types and Grand Nationals and 307 Olds V8’s were the only V8 options from 86-87.
Those plain Jane Regals and Cutlasses were about as common as air molecules when I was growing up. Everyone in my neighborhood seemed to have 1 and many had 2 in the family. Utterly unremarkable cars and one hardly sees any stock survivors these days. If someone wants to celebrate them in this fashion I’m all for it.
GM press release – 2009 Geneva Auto Show:
In spite of our limited development budget, we would like to introduce our stylish and progressive new concept car to the world. We call it the Buick Autoclave.
We believe that this prototype shows that GM has a firm grasp on its future, and we are well on our way to increasing market share.