The Buick Reatta is one of the many GM cars of its era that didn’t make a lot of marketing sense; the average age of Buick buyers in the late 1980s was about 113, and that’s not a demographic whose members tend to be comfortable with low-slung two-seaters full of intimidatingly futuristic electronic devices. You still see Reattas on the street now and then, and I found an ’89 in a Los Angeles junkyard last year. Here’s one that I spotted last week in a Denver self-serve yard. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1980s, 1988, 1988 Buick Reatta, Buick, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Reatta
Tagged as 1980s, 1988, 1988 Buick Reatta, Buick, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Reatta
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