How in the world did a forty-year-old Buick Regal transcend time and space and arrive in virtually untouched condition? We aren’t talking restored, or even a nice survivor. We are talking about a Regal that looks like it just rolled off of the lot and into an eBay listing, whitewall tires and all. Only turning 7,516 miles ever and being garaged every day had to help a significant amount, but still. Why buy a car and almost never use it? It baffles our minds, but it makes for an interesting find.
This Regal is a pretty typical offering: 350, automatic, medium green with matching green interior, matching green wheels and matching green vinyl roof. Visually, all that’s missing is the window sticker and you could fake a picture of this thing in “just bought it” condition. Even the bumper filler plastics look first-rate. Could you cut it up? Should it ever be driven again, seeing how it’s the closest thing to museum-quality that GM doesn’t already own? Or is it just a testament to how cars were intended to be in the late 1970s: comfortable cruisers that tried to have a modicum of style and grace, that didn’t rely on blunt-force horsepower like their immediate predecessors?
(Honestly, not work over that Buick 350? Are you nuts? We’d be reworking that engine in half a second.)
eBay Link: 1977 Buick Regal
Is it really 1970s cars, i can\’t believe this, it looks like a new one, whoever own this, must love this car so much
Hope someone will keep it that Way. And not start to mess with it, it deserves to be kept in it current condition. Drive it and enjoy it once in a while and hotrod something Else.
Fifteen grand is some serious asking price. Doesn’t leave much money left to turn this Buick into a super sleeper!
Probably some old lady owned it and it was willed to the kids on her passing.
Nice car but not $15K nice.
I would try to get it for a realistic price, switch the wheels for something modern and to preserve the originals, and drive it to church on Sundays. And I don’t even go to church.
It’s a time capsule, I would preserve it and try to enjoy it a little. People need to see it out once in a while.