What’s Your Favorite Car of All Time?
Posted by christiancarguy on 13 April, 2009
I saw this Buick GSX Proto type at the Detroit Auto Show in 1969. To say I fell in Love would be an understatement. These pictures, (although they are priceless to me) don’t begin to do it justice, those orange stripes that went up the seats and the racing stripes to match, too cool. At that time the 455 was a new engine. Part of the attraction, I’m sure, was that my father had worked for Buick all my life, and he had brought home some much heavier Buick Wildcats with that engine and the thought of that engine in a skylark, WOW! To me it was the most beautiful car I had ever seen and honestly I have never gotten over it.
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4 Comments on “What’s Your Favorite Car of All Time?”
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For a time while I was at university (in the nineties) I worked for an elderly couple doing all kinds of work on their estate properties, including washing the lady’s yellow Skylark with the 455. I don’t recall the year, but I’m sure she was the original owner. She just drove it to the salon every Wednesday and parked it in the garage. The gentleman drove a then-current model Cadillac, and had a collection of various less remarkable vehicles. My preference was for the ranch’s all-original 1973 GMC 4×4 pickup with the 8-track player and a cassette with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Hank Williams Jr. I don’t covet that pickup in particular though it certainly was archetypical of the genre. My favorite car of all time: any pickup truck.
The Duesenberg. I think that was the finest car any American manufacturer ever made. The Duesenberg SJ was a supercharged model, had a straight 8 DOHC engine and made 265 HP. It could do over 100 MPH in second gear and could top 135 MPH easily. The Cadillac V-16 runs a close second.
WOW, That’s tough to beat 265hp back then, amazing, when you have time tell us about the Cadillac V16 had to have a huge distributor cap…. Thanks for the post