Today’s Cohort find by Roshake has been featured before at CC. So, “still looking good” is being used in a very deliberate form in the title, as this 1990 Buick Skylark doesn’t look a day older than when previously captured in 2021. Someone in Budapest does love this N-body Buick.
The wonder of the common and ordinary finding value in far off places – “Derided at home; loved abroad” is how this find’s earlier post was titled, and I doubt much has changed since then for these N-body compacts. Buick emblems aside, few find these as truly desirable in the US. Rare nowadays, yes, but desirability has yet to come in their home nation, as far as I know.
Roshake only posted one photo in his most recent upload, so here are a couple more from 2021. That interior looks almost out of the showroom; really, when’s the last time you saw one looking like this? Other than back in 2021, of course.
Not a 1990 model, but an ’89 in the Belgian brochure above. In other CC posts, we’ve shown there’s a good deal of love in Europe for US vehicles of the ’60s and ’70s –your LTDs, Cadillacs, and the like. Not sure how big the love is for American made compacts of the 1980s and 1990s, but whatever their presence was back in the day, a few have found true admiration.
About 74K of these 4-door models rolled off the Lansing assembly line in 1990. As can be seen, one, still in great condition, can be found far away from home.
Related CC reading:
1990 Buick Skylark Custom – Disdained at Home; Loved Abroad
1990 Buick Skylark Luxury Edition – Nana’s Got a Hot Date On A Saturday Night
A neighbor of mine has one of these in “Buick Somerset” drag. It has a nice patina and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon. Their previous ride was a yellow 1973 Chevy Nova, which apparently couldn’t survive into the 2020s.
Nice looking car!
Amazing find – on the rare occasion when I see one of these Skylarks in the US, it’s always barely mobile, if at all.
The interior shot here shows what appears to be a Swiss vignette sticker on the windshield, so I’m guessing this car was sold in Switzerland originally (where, as far as I know, there was more demand for American cars in the 1990s than in other European countries).
Agree! Amazing, unbelievable! The folks @ “Buick” should be capitalizing on this unicorn.
It was nice seeing it again for the first time, and still in such good condition. But being on a grocery run with grandma at the time, and having thoroughly photographed it before, i decided to just shoot a quick pic to document the occasion. Grandma did ask to have a pic taken with the car too tough 😁
That picture made my day – thanks! And your grandma has good taste in cars.