What year did it start for you!??

[MichaelGarrison]

It was the summer of 1977 for me. I had a 73 Ford Ranchero with a 351 cleavland. I got spanked by the 70 GS I still have. Then I just HAD to have that Buick!!!

[mrgransport]

It was 1967. I bought a 1936 Buick, Model 66 SO coupe. Straight 8 and 3 speed. Loved the way it ran! Wish I would have never sold it.

[TXGS]

Since I am probably one of the young bucks. While I was stationed out in california I went to buy a 67 Cam@#$ and the guy sold it before I got there my second choice was the 72 Skylark Custom. I obviously made the better choice. Since 1999 and No looking back now.

[Stage1 78 Olds]

was the summer of 1995 for me, with a 1985 le sabre, traded a 78 dodge truck for it
then,i put my first 455 in it in 1996

[Duane Heckman]

It would have been on a weekend afternoon in the spring of 76. My dad and I used to wash our cars and then fill them up. When I took the first car to the gas station there was a guy there with a White 70 GSX. I was checking it out but didn’t say anything. Then I went home and did the same to our other car. When I got back to the gas station I see the same guy filling up a Yellow 70 GSX. At this point I had to ask him, “Weren’t you just here with a white GSX? He answered “Yes, the wife’s car is white, this one’s mine.”

I never saw either car again and always wondered if he was teasing me, but I sure remembered them after that.
Duane

[DugsSin]

My parents traded in the '53 Chevy for a new '57 Roadmaster. Pop would run anything from a rolling start and would keep his foot in it till the ole speed alert was ready to melt. You couldn't set it above 80 or 90 which is where it always stayed. My brother and I would always want to run errands with Pop I've been hooked on Buicks ever since and have that Roadie in my garage today

[buickwagon]

Was the summer of 1986. I had just turned 17 and was looking for a car. Saw a 70 Skylark on the side of the road with a For Sale sign in the window. Four hours and $500 later it was sitting in my parents driveway. It wasn't too hard to convince my father since 3 years earlier he had just traded in a 70 Sportwagon that he bought brand new. Wish he had kept that one for 3 more years...

[The Old Guy]

I had a 37 Century 4 dr that I bought in 1948 as a sophmore in high school.I put the dual carbs from a 1942 Roadmaster on ,and took the "Y" pipe off to install dual "Smithy" mufflers. We didn't do a lot of drag racing, but that car was AWESOME on top end.

[69GS400s]

I was driving a motorcycle in 1980 ... my only means of transportation. Went to college that fall with it in Buffalo NY and rode it until the roads were covered white. That spring when I went home there was this turd green '69 Skylark infront of the house ....NASTY looking I thought. Asked Dad who's it was and he said "I bought it for you ....for $100 from a friend so you wouldn't have to ride the bike in the winter".

'69 Sky, 6 cly L6 chevy motor, powerglide, 12 bolt posi, PS, PB and thats about it for options. Had 110,000 on it when I got it, rebuilt the Rochester MonoJet and replaced a few rockers/lifters/pushrods and drove it for 7 years getting rid of it with 370,000 miles on it. Motor never apart, trans never touched, original rear never opened.

Met a Mechanic up in Buffalo who lived across the street who owned a 72 Estate wagon with a worked 455". He took me under his wing ... Introduced me to his friend who had a '72 Rivi GS worked to the max. He took me for my first "Hairy" ride in a torque-monster and I was hooked !!!

....NEVER would have thought then that that car would start a 26 year obsession

[71GSX455-4Spd]

November 1971 when I went with my dad to pick up the car he has just bought, the GSX that I still have.

[Buick64203]

For me, it started very early. My uncle Jim bought a brand new 68 Riviera GS. I remember going over his house on the weekends and helping him tune it up. My earliest memories of the car was sitting in the passenger seat while Jim squealed the tires from a light. I thought that car was the coolest looking car ever. When I was 16, I wanted a car just like uncle Jim's. Thats when I bought my 69 Riviera GS. It was all downhill from there. Since then, I must have owned over a hundred Buicks. I stopped counting at 60, at that was 15 years ago. After Jim passed on in 99, my cousins gave me his Riv.
So, despite all the Buicks that have passed through my fingers, Jim's 68 and my first 69 Riv remain in my collection.

[65specialconver]

summer of 75,my best buddy bought a 67 r/t convert.i had to have a convert,even if it was the seattle area.local paper found my 65 for $350 of my hard earned paper route money.as time went by,i found out the original owner was a local cop.he used to pull me over,just to see what havoc i had done to "his"car.i saw him at a tavern about 10 years ago,& he told me how he regreted selling it,but his wife was pregnent & they wanted a family car.i told him when its restored,i would look him up.hope he lives that long

[Dana & Beth]

would have been spring of 1970.........8 years old and riding my schwinn to baseball practice. Along the way I passed Foley Buick in the town I grew up in.There in the showroom was a yellow GSX, I nearly rode into a pole from the rubber neck. Passed & stopped a few times more before it was gone, a salesman actually invited me in to look at it & told me to bring my Dad back to buy it. I couldnt pull that off, but as soon as I turned 16 in 1978 I found a little old lady 70 white Skylark for $200. With the exception of 2 misguided years in the eightees ( couse my sister was dating a Chrysler dealer & he got me a deal on a turbo laser) I have allways had at least one Buick in the garage.

As for Beth.....I'll let her 'splain this one herself.

D.

[GallenS]

Yep, the summer of 1960...
I was 10 years old riding with my aunt to northern Wi. on hwy 16 in her new Invicta (Black w/white top 4dr ht).

She says wanna go 100? ... The rest is history as they say

[tufbuick]

I have always been into some sort of motorized hobby since I got my licence. 55 Chevy, 454 Chevelle, Custom Vans, Triumphs, Harleys and a bunch of Corvettes.
Then in 1987 my wife and I were going out to the house in the Hamptons and decided to go "New Car" shopping along the way. We stopped at a new car store and picked out a 1987 Monte Carlo S/S. The wife liked the color. Deposit down, was to pick it up next few days after dealer prep.
Wife and I continue our journey and a few towns later we come around a turn and the local Buick dealer has 10 brand new Grand Nationals sitting out on the front lawn.....WOW !!!
Well I stop to check them out and the wife says, "don't think your getting one of those Black cars 'cause I like the color of my "New" Monte Carlo. I never even heard of a G.N.. Salesman says they're Turbo charged and can beat a Corvette......HOLD EVERYTHING !!! Wife still wants the Monte, oh well what can I say.
Next day I sneak back to the dealership and talk to the service manager who has one and races it.....I'm sold....wife still says NO. Three days later my son and I go to pick up the new Monte and I notice that the front air dam is damaged and they repainted it and are waiting for the sripe kit to come in. NO, NO, NO, NO.....get my deposit back and my son says, "what are we gonna do now"? Son, we are going to test drive one of those new G.N.s.
Buick dealer lets me and my 17 year old take a new G.N. out all by ourselves for a spin. Car sounded like grandmas Cutlas Ciera until we got to a country road and we got stuck behind a tractor pulling a hay wagon. Followed that wagon much to long at about 20mph and finally got to a straight away to pass him. Pulled out to his left and put the spurs to that New G.N.........................HOLY $HIT, was I in for a surprise. Insant love affair. My son and I worked that G.N. over so good we had to wait down the road for the tranny to stop smokin'. Got back to the dealership and the salesman said....."SO WHAT DO YOU THINK".....I said I'LL TAKE IT.....THAT ONE OVER THERE.....pointing to an untouched one.
Street raced and met lots of Buick Heavyweights on the east coast and became friends with some of our most respected and well known Buick guys over the years. Bought and sold some real nice Buicks but have kept my favorites for myself.
I must say that my Buick times have always been the best times....all you people are the greatest and I thank you all for that.

MOON'