Heck, one of the few '76 ANYTHING from Detroit still running. Not their best year.

Not the best, but a hell of a lot better than 10-15 years later...
In the mid to late 70's GMs weren't exactly perfect, but being as simple as they were it was possible to keep one running for years to come with nothing more than a screwdriver, pair of channel locks, and a hammer. Maybe a few beers too... lol The ones from the late 80s through the 90s were complete and total bullshit. Prime example, as of now I have a 91 regal sitting behind my house with 89k miles and a blown tranny with a marginal headgasket... My 63 LeSabre had 215k on it and ran like a fucking champ.

The 70s weren't great, but were a hell of a lot better than the late 80s-mid 90s.

True. Just got rid of a '93 Bonneville for similar reasons...

yo yep, case and point. Sucks too, those were the cars I grew up in, sucks to see they turned out to be such shit...

Mighta held on to it were it not for it getting shredded in a couple accidents, but...

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As it is:

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Sure, they rusted and all the small stuff broke, and smog carbs were terrible. But mechanically, these things were solid. There's not much that can kill a GM big block with low compression and a Cretaceous-era fluid-driven automatic behind it. Rust killed way more of these things than anything else.

True dat.

At least things from Detroit made in 1976 can be repaired. Can't say that about Tokyo!

Mercedes is still the champ, tho. One can get factory parts for any car back to the 50s and beyond...

That champ has an * beside their name, because it bares mentioning that these parts are beyond expensive.

Well...yes and no. Normal maintenance parts are, maybe, a few bucks more than you'd pay at Pep Boys...but try getting a distributor rotor for a '55 Ford directly from Ford, and you get the horse laugh. :)

Then just buy a distributor from MSD, it's a higher quality part from them anyway.

Yes, but MSD doesn't get you through a concours (not that this is my thing, particularly, just saying).

Yeah... I don't care about that.

I've got a '71 Super Bee, I've got the build sheet to the car, it is mostly original and I've got the original 383 magnum engine under the hood; and I plan to replace it with a 440 at some point.

Oooo!

oh sweet I like that T-top design.

Love the Disco-era striping and broadside graphic design.

A Century T-Top? Damn man, never knew. That's pretty cool

Hot damn, a full size with a T top! I'd gladly trade off my Camaro for something like this.

Probably my favorite picture that you've posted so far. My love for 70's GM A-body cars is exceeded only by B-bodies. And the Buick is always my favorite. These things had PRESENCE. You don't park a 225" long car on the street without someone noticing.

I know exactly what you mean. I had a 75 Electra 225 about 12 years ago. The attention that thing got was pretty amazing. I still miss it to this day.

Yep! Same with my 1976 Mercedes 450SEL; when I parked in front of my mother's rowhouse in South Philly, it overlapped the property line by six inches on either side...