"Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
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> On 5/7/2013 11:17 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> It seems to be a top car for geezers *everywhere*. My parents started
>> buying Buicks when they were still making the occasional drive to
>> Memphis to visit us kids. They wanted a *really* comfortable ride. And
>> it was! After that, there was no going back for them. Their last Buick
>> was a 2005 Park Avenue. And yes, Dad told me that would be the last car
>> he ever bought. He was right about that.
>>
>> Jill
>
> My mother liked Buicks, she thought Cadillac's and Lincoln's were for old
> people. For some reason, geezers love big cars. My brother started giving
> her a company car, the last one being a Saturn.
>
> Becca

Yes! That is why my dad and husband liked them. My dad actually bought his
sister's old Cadillac. I can't remember the model. But it was the longest
one ever made. That replaced his Buick Electra. He actually flew to CO to
pick it up and drove it back. It was replaced with the Buick Le Sabre. My
husband had the Park Ave. He did have a regular sized car, Dodge Shadow
prior but prior to that he had an ancient Lincoln Town Car and also a bare
bones Chevy Blazer. His theory was that if he was in an accident he would
be safer in a larger car. My dad's theory? Drive a big car and people get
out of your way. Well, yes. Drive in an aggressive manner as he sometimes
did and they would. It was rather comical when he was driving my Ford
Maverick. We had taken it out for a spin to see if we could determine where
a weird noise was coming from. A car didn't get out of his way fast enough
to suit him so he went charging at it with my little Maverick. Ha! Didn't
work. Guy turned around and gave him a dirty look but didn't move.

I will say that I like the big cars for road trips when I am the passenger.
Not so sure I would want to drive them on those. I did learn to drive in
the Electra. That thing was hard to park!

I drive a mini van now only because I was told by numerous people that it
was far easier to get a kid in and out of a mini van than a car. My old one
broke down on the way here and people had loaded us up with so much stuff to
take home with us that we needed another mini van. And this one seems to
have less storage type space in it so we had to leave two big boxes of stuff
with my SIL to mail to us after we got here! I don't really need a van now
and chances are, my next vehicle will just be a car.

I just don't understand why when you are making a cross country move, people
load you up with stuff! But they did it to my husband too. Big huge bag of
Christmas presents for Angela and I. And some of them truly are seasonal so
that was kind of weird. Unless there was more to this story that I don't
know about why we are getting them now.