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more about #skylark more comments → brandegee: I gotta nitpick. The X-body is not roomy. I've never been in a car with less front head room, and that includes vehicles like an 85 MR2 and an 88 VW F... more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: My dad had an '81 4 door with the 2.8. It didn't even last a year. That's right, a YEAR. It literally started falling apart. Which makes sense, when y... more » MushyHeirloom: There used to be a hatchback Citation around town. Wonder what happened to it? Anyway, this reminds me of the very-early-A-body Buick (presumably a Ce... more » theeastbaykid: My grandma had a Pontiac Phoenix, which is possibly the least memorable of all the X cars. It got replaced by a '95 Taurus. My grandma outlasted them ... more » danio3834: You know, up here in the rust belt, that car could actually fetch some dough. Not a lot of dough, but somebody aroud here would have a boner for a rus... more » Cognitive Friction: Growing up in the Western suburbs of Chicago our neighbor across the street had an '83(?) Citation hatch. You could watch it rust in real time, and if... more » Pete Gaines: We used to have one of these pieces of shit: more » jduffy13: One of these should be encased in perspex and placed across the street from GM's headquarters as a constant reminder of their ineptitude. That or like... more » DoctorNine: Oh my. What a sad, sad little car. I had forgotten what a vale of windswept emptiness the early 80's were. And not just GM cars either. Massive inte... more » Elhigh: Wow, an Iron Duke that still runs. The mind boggles. Hog it out and replace it with a new Ecotec 2.2. Smaller, lighter, more power - I see no downside... more » mechimike: I nailed one of these one day coming home from work, while living in New Jersey. I was in my '74 Plymouth Satellite. When Satellite hit Skylark, the S... more » Jellodyne: What a piece of crap. I had an '86 -- pretty sure the "Custom" was like a sub-base model. As in, they could build them this stripped, but only if you ... more » Graverobber: They styled these to look like the big-boy Regals and Rivieras. While it's not bad looking, designing a small car with the same styling cues as a larg... more » UDMan: When I was looking to replace my Opel Manta I bought in 1975, I went back to the Buick Dealer, and they had a Black Skylark 2 Door, in their "Sport" m... more » LTDScott: I saw an Olds Omega not so long ago and I too realized how rare these things are nowadays. Before my family moved to the US from Australia, we came he... more » -
#downonthestreet
1984 Buick Skylark Custom
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's an example of badge engineering from the perhaps-best-forgotten GM X-Body platform. More » -
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1969 Buick Skylark Custom
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Even though we had a GM A-Body here just last week, I liked the look of this Skylark so much that I just can't wait to share it. This could mean that Chrysler A-Body fans might feel slighted (yes, nearly a month has gone by since our last one), but not to worry- there's a Valiant in the queue now!
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1968 Buick Skylark Custom Convertible
Most of you approved of the super-beater '70 Skylark, with a small but vocal minority who felt physical pain at the very sight of the beat-to-hell Buick. I'm pretty sure that the approval rating of today's Skylark will be be fairly high across the board, given that it's a 40-year-old red convertible that lives on the street and all. This clean-looking Buick parks just across the street from the yellow '72 Beetle we saw last year. More » -
