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1976 Buick Regal

You know what we haven't had in this series? Donks! Oakland, just across a narrow estuary from Alameda, has a fair number of donkified GM cars, but the trend seems to be dying out. In any case, donkmania never got very big in Alameda, where old-school musclecars and lowriders seem to be the customization themes of choice. Here's a rare Alameda donk, which I shot next to Alameda High over the winter (no, it doesn't rain here in June). The car parked on that block every school day, so is it a teacher's car or a student's?
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9:00 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,625 views, 76 comments

Latest by freeride53: that guy goes to my school. that's my school. more »

offbeat news

Burglary Suspect Caught With Six Foot Alligator Copilot

Though our love for Texas knows no end, the state certainly has its share of people who have more balls than common sense. Take Mr. William Johnson, the Thomas Crown of Brazoria, Texas. On the way to burgling a house he came across a wild American Alligator and thought it would be a good idea to wrestle it and put it in the back of his Buick Regal. After arriving at the house he found he had trouble moving a big screen television by himself and recruited a neighbor. The neighbor was willing to rob his other neighbor but relented when he saw the gator, saying "Alright, I ain't got nothing to do with it."

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11:00 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,643 views, 48 comments

Latest by n/a: Forget "Trunk Monkey". This the new craze! + Watch video more »

offbeat news

Pedal-Powered Regal Charges Laughed Out of Court

Ha! Take that copper.The "artist" who created the pedal-powered Buick Regal and was ticketed by one of Toronto's finest on the creation's maiden voyage has been vindicated in a Canadian court. Trevor Baldwin thought the charge of "operating an unsafe motor vehicle" was a total crock since everything which made the car a motor vehicle had been stripped out, so he did what any good troublemaker does — challenge the ticket in court. Seems the law was on his side as the prosecutor was literally laughed at when attempting to make the case. The judge then proceeded to toss the case out on its ear. Consider this a win for pedal-powered car building artist hippies everywhere in Canada. [CBC]

4:00 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,657 views, 32 comments

Latest by BlueMenu: Let's see the hippie try that with a Roadmaster. Then I'll be impressed. more »

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Pedal-Powered Buick Owner Stands Up To The Man In Court!


It turns out that John Law takes a dim view of human-powered cars on the streets of Toronto, as artist Michel de Broin discovered to his dismay when he attempted to take his pedal-powered 1986 Buick Regal out for a little spin last year. In Mr. de Broin's view, the Shared Propulsion Car, with its perfectly functional brakes and steering, is safe for street operation. Safer, in fact, than gasoline-powered vehicles, and so he is fighting his Operation of Unsafe Vehicle ticket. [National Post]

3:45 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,092 views, 44 comments

Latest by CptSevere: Yeah, kind of a neat statement or whatever. Still, a lot of work and meatball engineering to get nowhere slowly. Seems like I read a quote by Edward Abbey on seeing his first mountain bike-"Seems like a helluva lot of more »

novelties

1972 Reliant Regal - Make The Furry Cars Stop

There's no explanation for our recent fascination with fur-bearing automobiles, it's almost like gawking at a traffic accident. This latest in the litany of fuzzy rides gets a double scoop of weirdness in that it's not only sporting a fur-covered dash, but it's also a Reliant Regal, a three wheeled delivery truck wonder from Britain. Make that a triple scoop because this one has been made up to look like a Supervan which starred in the BBC series "Only Fools and Horses".

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11:15 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
639 views, 22 comments

Latest by DRFS Rich: Rodney, you plonker!!! more »

choose your eternity

PCH, Turbo Sleeper Edition: Regal or Minivan?

The Morgan applied a savage caning to the quasi-MG in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll, thereby proving that wooden frames are preferable to wooden firewalls. We're going to take a little breather from British Car Hell today (just for a little while, mind you, because most of the cars in Hell are British... although we understand the Evil One himself drives a black dual-engine Toronado) and go with some Motown Mo-chinery for your punitive pleasure. How about a car that looks like it gets driven only to Bingo Night at the Senior Center, yet has the potential for Super Boost Potential?
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5:30 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By Murilee Martin
3,202 views, 32 comments

Latest by petersterncan: The K-based minivan all the way. Imagine... beating a guy in his Porsche Boxter not just a K-car... a K-car *minivan*... and not a V6 one either. Oh the pain the Porsche owner will feel. The only thing that might be sweeter is beating more »

jalopnik fantasy garage

Buick GNX

One of the most tired cliches in all of autojournodom is "Darth Vader's Ride." You've read it one million times, I've used the phrase several hundred dozen times and we think of it every time a pitch-black Corvette Z06 passes by. It's old, it's worn and until further notice, the Maybach Excelero owns that appellation forever. Nonetheless, we're old enough to remember the first time an all-black coupe was mentioned in the same sentence as the Dark Lord of the Sith. Twenty years ago, it was good old Car & Driver that (as we recall) created the trope when they subtitled a piece on the special-edition Buick GNX, "Darth Vader, Your Car Is Ready." For a 12-year-old car nut with Empire Strikes Back bedsheets and two or three shoe boxes filled with Star Wars trading cards, that was enough to peg the GNX as the coolest car ever. Even better, my father's childhood friend Joe Silverman showed up to my Bar Mitzvah in a pitch-black GNX and took me on a joyride. Obviously, that was the highlight of my passage into manhood. Two decades later, very little has changed. More »

12:15 PM on Tue Jul 3 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
12,315 views, 117 comments

Latest by n/a: Yikes, this is old. Just had to say, the GNX never received disc brakes....drums just like the GN's and other g-bodies. I'm 99% sure that they were aluminum drums though. I also think people are mistaking GN's for GNX's quite a more »

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Classic Ad Watch: The Buick Grand National Is Bad To The Bone

I'd already totally forgotten that Buick went all George Thorogood with their marketing campaign for the 1984 Buick Regal Grand National. And how could I have — it makes total sense for Buick to have chosen Thorogood — although the "Imperial March" could have worked too. You see, with 200 hp of turbo goodness, the '84 was a radical example of US automakers trying to re-spark the interest of the enthusiast class, with the closest thing 'merica had seen to a muscle car since before the oil embargo. Although only 30,500 turbo cars were produced, they ruled the streets from '84 straight through to the last jet-black model year of '87, and as we saw during the Woodward Dream Cruise this year, they're still adored by fans — as these bad to the bone black examples of the best of the '80's should be. – Ray Wert More »

9:18 AM on Tue Nov 14 2006
By Ray Wert
1,166 views, 9 comments

Latest by flintoid: Tyler: Yeah, and this was only the half-length ad. You should have heard the last part of the full length ad when Thorogood stutters "wouldn't you really rather have a bbbbb-buick?" more »

2006 woodward dream cruise

2006 Woodward Dream Pre-Cruise: Nick's Buick Regal Grand National

Nick here is going to talk to you today about his Buick Regal Grand National. This guy grabbed us as we were snapping some pictures of the black-as-night muscle cars as they were ready to head out and cruise Woodward Avenue, and urged us to take a look at his intercooled piece of motown metal. And we're glad he did — as he gives us the story of how an intercooler works, and why the Grand National gets attention at the tracks — and why it should be getting more. More »

9:07 AM on Fri Aug 18 2006
By Ray Wert
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