- Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 am
From the Archive: 1976
By Alicia Dorset
Blog editor
This week’s find from the GM Media Archive is a photo of a 1976 Buick Regal two-door Landau Coupe.
Thanks for your photo requests from last week— we’re working on it!
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Creed Crutchfield
Now… Or Then?
Imagine the utter blithe that preceeded this ill-fated sedan. Brown. Huge. Full of Cardboard parts and rubber-filled vinyl.
A gas hog in a time of fuel crisis.
Was that 1976 or 2006!?!
Today: We appreciated, though unknowingly, the soft riding demeanor and the clean, large lines. Yes, I said clean. Although there were far more hundreds of parts(screws,single mold plastic) which made up this piece-meal sedan from Parts-Bin, USA, than sedans of today, there is an aire of sophisticated class about this automobile.
Although it might have seemed, at the time, to be just another re-badged Mutli-GM platform Car, today it survives as a nicely preserved picture of comfort, and easy, 1-fingered slick steering for navigating about a city-street or parking lot.
Of course, we should forget the mushy brakes, scary hydro-plane prone tires, vacuum hoses-from-hell engine, and 8-track cassette deck.
Cheers!
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