My father and I bought the car back in 2009 from Jefferson Wisconsin (car show/swap meet). It was pouring down rain and we were looking at an old Buick when these older gentlemen yelled at us to get in their car to get out of the rain since we were stupid and forgot our rain gear lol. We got in and started talking to the guys about the car we were in and found out the whole history of the car. The car was purchased by the original owners in Minnesota and was used as their Sunday church car and grocery getter until the 80's. It was hit sometime in the early 80's on the drivers side and whoever did the body work and paint job couldn't match the paint so the car was put in a barn in the late 80's. The old man passed away and left the car to his son who didn't want anything to do with it so the neighbors which were long time family friends decided to take the car and get it running. They changed the brKe booster, rebuilt the carb and she purred like a kitten. They trailered the car to Wisconsin where we met them at the Jefferson show. We made the deal with them and at that moment the rain let up and they offered to trailer the car for us to Illinois at no charge. We then got the car and had the gas tank pulled, sandblasted and coated and reinstalled. We put a fm stereo/CD player under the dash without cutting any holes. And we also replaced the original bias belt tires with white letter tires. We took it around to many car shows, and while she was far from perfect we got tons of attention from her. She had 60k original miles! Had the usual rot in the quarter panels and a little in the trunk, but the frame was solid and everything operated, even the original 8 track player still worked!! We then found out about my dad's prostrate cancer and was forced to make a tough decision to sell. We ended up selling for far less than what the car was worth and it killed us to do that but we needed to sell to get my dad the treatment he needed. I miss that car everyday.
