This pic is pretty hopeless(though it may just be the car)

very convertible

Yeah let’s just take pictures behind a warehouse, shall we?

Nope. The end of exciting Buicks was 1974, the last year of the GS455 Stage 1. Then it started back up in 1978 with the Regal and LeSabre turbos and kept on through 1987.

This is what I came here to post. End of an era for many reasons:

Sex Panther. 60% of the time it works ALL the time.

I wouldn’t say this was an end of an era. The era of exciting Buicks ended in 1971. The Grand National was just a 4-5 year revival. And in terms of GM divisions being allowed to do their own thing around 5 years after the last Grand National GM built the bonkers GMC Syclone and Typhoons.

Bring back COTD! JimSlade knows whats up.

Late 90s Honda CRX hatch. Increasing safety standards and consumer expectations ushered an end to the stripper pocket rocket, I think. Economical, easy to fix, and fun.

I still see the oval tauruses way too often. And knowing how some owners treated them, I’m quite surprised.

Okay, perhaps I should elaborate. I believe the Express is the last of the BOF vans.

Mark V. The last of the big block land yachts. 1979 was the very last year you could have the 400, with the 460 going away the year before.

I will politely disagree and say we made it slightly beyond that. I present my counter argument, my DD. 02 Corolla with NO options. Manual windows, manual locks, no cruise control. Doesn’t even have ABS. It was the last of the small, cheap, basic Corollas before they got bloated and started throwing standard features…

I see your Caprice and raise you a Lincoln Town Car

I’m going with the Ford Excursion. Last made in 2005, it was the biggest SUV on the market and its end-run coincided with skyrocketing gas prices post-Katrina and also ushered in the era of the small SUV and CUV. Sure, big behemoths are still made, but (to my knowledge) none are as big as this and the popularity has…

1979 Lincoln Continental Collector’s Series. It was the last of the giant land yachts, and Ford knew it. They carried over the Diamond Jubilee edition from the company’s 75th anniversary, which was loaded with every option imaginable in 1978, renamed it as the Collector’s Series, and sent off the big Lincolns with an…

Chevy Express. Last of the full-size vans.

2005 VW Ty 2 Kombi. The last air cooled VW.

The end of the pop-up lights: