One Man's Tribute To The Buick Roadmaster

Lol. I'm sorry to tell you this son, but that's one ugly baby you've got there. I'll be honest, I never paid much attention to these things and always assumed that was a Cadillac profile going down the road. Probably shouldn't be but I'm surprised they chose to plonk it onto both Buick and Caddy. (shakes head and wanders off)

My 80-year-old mother-in-law's DD is still a white '92 Roadmaster sedan. Base model, no vinyl, blue cloth interior. She bought it secondhand in 1998. Damn thing doesn't rust and just keeps running so there hasn't been any reason to replace it. I sure wish she'd get the steering fixed though. Last time I had to move it to my driveway when she went on a bus trip I damn near drove the thing into a Jersey barrier leaving the park and ride lot. I'm not used to cars anymore that don't respond when I turn the wheel. It replaced an '87 Caprice. Unfortunately we live in a place where the pre-'91 sedans get hooptied up and trade for big money. But nobody seems to really want the bubble cars, so that's probably actually a good thing for her. She gets less attention this way. As far as I'm concerned, for its basic function of hauling people and objects the RM is inferior in all ways to modern front drive full size cars, unless you really need to know there are eight cylinders under the hood. But whatever. She's used to it.

@28: Funny you say that...the final year of the Skylark and Achieva (1998) was fleet-only, so the very rental-car looking Skylarks and Achievas may have actually BEEN rental cars.

@CoreyDL: That Achieva must be a 1997 or 1998 model, since the Malibu-based Cutlass was one of the first Oldsmobiles to use the circular logo.