One of One: Mercury Sable Custom Convertible
It doesn’t get much more unique than this. Here is a Mercury Sable Convertible Concept car. Apparently, Ford was toying with the idea of making the Sable into a convertible. While all production Sables were either 4 door sedans… more»
Only 43K Miles: 1985 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham
In 1985, General Motors came out with new front wheel drive models for the Cadillac De Ville, Buick Electra, and Oldsmobile Ninety Eight. While Buick and Oldsmobile elected to replace their rear wheel drive vehicles with the new front… more»
23K Miles Survivor: 1969 Chrysler New Yorker
Chrysler had a successful run of its full-size cars from 1965 to 1968, but in 1969 it was time for a new body style. The famous fuselage body style was incorporated, with sales slightly down from the previous year…. more»
Under 16K Miles: 1965 Ford Custom
Back in the fifties and sixties, the full-size market was where the majority of the sales were. It was a simpler time for manufacturers too. They could build a basic model and add varying degrees of chrome and interior… more»
One Family Owned: 1969 Buick Electra 225
Have you ever felt left out of the fun? Well, my dad had a brother and two sisters, the brother and one of the sisters had a 1969 Buick Electra. While the other sister didn’t have one, her son had… more»
Less Than 14K Miles: 1971 Ford F250 Camper Special Pickup
Back in the sixties and seventies, pickups with sleeping campers were frequently seen, where today most campers or trailers are just pulled behind vehicles. In 1971, and other years as well, Ford built a pickup truck specifically for the… more»
One Owner: 1981 Chrysler Imperial
The full-size Imperial luxury model went away after 1975. Then Chrysler brought back a personal luxury model in 1981 which was sold through 1983. But timing is everything, and the timing of this model just didn’t work. If it… more»
A Real Head Turner: 1971 Chrysler New Yorker
I had a great uncle that had three Chrysler New Yorker 4 door sedans during his life, a 1966, a 1973, and a 1971 just like this one except for the color. While Chrysler had the lower Newport and in… more»
Another Grandma’s Car: 1982 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale
For some reason, we end up seeing a lot of 4 door General Motors full-size cars from 1977 to 1985 on Barn Finds, and a lot of those cars end up being called “Grandma” cars while we rarely find… more»
Big Brown Bird: 1973 Ford Thunderbird
The Ford Thunderbird was restyled in 1972 and was reduced to only one model, a 2 door hardtop. In 1973, they refined the grille and put on a more massive front bumper, what I like to call “chrome railroad… more»
Only 6K Miles: 1976 Dodge Aspen Custom
In 1976, Chrysler brought out its new compacts, Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen, and ran them side by side for one year only with their old compacts, the Plymouth Valiant and Dodge Dart. Dodge proclaimed in its sale brochure… more»
True Survivor: 1971 Cadillac Sedan De Ville
Cadillac, along with other full-size General Motors cars, was redesigned in 1971. It started a six-year run of the largest cars that would ever be produced by them. Even though the De Ville models were not the entry level of… more»
Amazingly Low 12K Miles: 1988 Chevrolet Monte Carlo LS
By 1988, personal luxury cars had pretty much had a good run and fewer people were buying them. Consider that ten years before in 1978, Monte Carlo sold 358,191 cars, while by 1988 in an abbreviated year they had… more»
Needs Restoring: 1979 Oldsmobile 442 Hurst/Olds W30
In 1979, after a three year period without the option, you could order a Hurst/Olds option for your Cutlass Calais. The option was $2,054 above the Cutlass Calais cost and 2,499 were built. This was the first Hurst/Olds built entirely… more»
Still Big: 1978 Ford LTD Landau
Ford was probably working on their downsized Panther platform, to be introduced in 1979, by the time the 1977 General Motors cars hit the showrooms. But just the same, the marketing team went to work praising how the LTD… more»
27,000 Miles? 1977 Buick Skylark
The seventies was a different time. Cars like this Buick Skylark featured here was considered a compact car with an overall length of 200.2 inches. Today, the largest car that Buick produces is a Lacrosse, and that will soon… more»
