When my dad was alive and in good health we would take four of our old tractors to shows. Two on his trailer and 2 on mine. If the show was with in 40 miles I would make extra trips and take 8 tractors. When dads health started failing we cut back on how many went, then after he passed away we did it one more year then stopped taking tractors after all I was no longer a spring chicken either. Dragging chains binders and ramps gets old once your no longer a spring chicken. I tell Kare we need a old truck or a car. Her mom had just the car I wanted and she had not drove it since some time around 1997. Kare's dad told me Mom flat refused to go any place in it after it got 60,000 miles and would bulk once it got 10 years old. It Became dads baby and he was for ever making an excuse to drive it to the store, not the one a mile up the road but the one 10 miles away. The car was last drove some time in the spring of 2009 not sure of the month just knew he was really sick by August and died in Nov 2009. I started asking mom to sell it to me in 2011 still parked in the garage and mom having me hook the battery up and start it and let it run for about a half hour. 2012 moms oldest daughter moved in and her junk had to go in the garage and the car out side. Mom still refused to sell it to me and even told me no reason to start and run it any longer. 2016 Mom fell and broke her hip, I guess she had heard and remembered about elder persons who break hips don't usually live a year longer. She told my wife she would sell me the car as it wasn't doing any one any good just setting there. We gave mom fair market value for the car. August I started it again after changing The oil for the first time in over 5 years. Car is a 1985 2dr. Buick LaSaber limited Collectors Edition the last year for the rear wheel drive LaSaber's. It had 83,292 miles on it. Old's 307 V8 engine with 4 barrel carb. Al
Once I got the oil changed I got Michigan historical plates for it, Price was right at $10.00 for 30 years of driving. We put PLPD insurance on it because we didn't plan on much driving the fall of 2016, Took it 4 miles down the road to a car repair place dad used and had the trans drained and new filter and oil added. Brought it home after that and tried to save the dead paint, Couldn't as it is to dead so it was parked for the winter whit me starting it about once a month, Insurance was lowered to storage only. Spring came and I am itching to drive the Buick and take it to some shows and find a real good painter. New insurance American Collectors full coverage, same liability coverage as our daily drivers, towing and spare part coverage for $500.00 and 7,000 mileage limit. Less than 300.00 a year, we paid more for 6 months of PLPD with our normal insurance. With insurance we could drive it so off to the car repair place to remove the remaining R 12 Freon from the air conditioning along with the oil. New R 134 with new oil was added, then to the tire store (new) next door to fix a slow leak in the left front tire that worried Kare. Six days later we bought 2 new tires because the belt had came loose on the tire dad had put on in 1998. Al
Worked in both Buick factory #04 and #40 in Flint, built LaSabers in #04 , Regals in #40 , I worked on the lines , built parts , worked repair , 32 years. Those LaSaber seats were nice n cushy comfy to lay em back and take a nap
What are you talking about- that's called Hood Camouflage That screams "pull me over. And I am either smoking, will be smoking, or have just smoked the forbidden weed..."
Oh yeah , I drove cars from place to place too , my favorite thing of all time was , doin burnouts in the rail lot
Well our LaSaber was ordered 12-18-84 built in St. Louis Missouri, Delivered to Belford Buick in Davison Michigan and picked up 2-4-85. Yes we have the Original sales book for 1985 Buicks Mom And dad went through and wrote and checked what they were going to order. The original customer copy of the order sheet with prices for each option, like the 307 V8, the wheels instead of hub caps, Door edge guards and other stuff. Have the original window sticker that list the factory built in, the standard equipment and options along with the MFG suggest price of $15,000+ Then the original sales recite of the base price plus options, delivery, sales tax and the $13,241 paid. Every recite for every service dad could not do his self like change the oil and grease it, yup has grease fittings all over the under carriage too. Kare's folks worked for AC Davison road and Dort with Robert T to the south. Liked the sales man, who worked at Belford at the time they ordered this Buick, went to Miglacutty Buick, down near the Dort event center when Belford was sold to Waldron Buick and moved to the south end of Davison, he went back to Waldron when Miglacutty closed. That is some ugly car. I have a picture of a AMC AMX that is black and that green for Friday night cruise night. I think it looks real good. Al
