Ha, finally a car on RCR that I've owned. It's even the same color as mine was, although an earlier model of the same generation. Quite enjoyed that thing, I enjoyed keeping it unnecessarily pristine.
Oh wow, I just noticed that the owner even added the _same steering wheel cover_ that I had on mine as well. Makes sense as it fits the interior better than any other I found, and _anything_ was better than the thing blue wheel underneath that felt like absolute garbage after crumpling apart from years of use.
Lazy Game Reviews My parents had the exact same car in '89. They were Boomers. This was all spot on. Before this we owned a diesel Oldsmobile that was The Neverending Story car.
Most cars that are old always look like they are falling apart. But the few cars that are kept clean look like they might actually be good looking and aged well in appearance. Cleanliness just makes any car look so much better.
Fun fact, the A-Body was available in AWD in the form of the Pontiac 6000. Meaning you can easily convert one of these into an absolutely hilarious RWD sleeper.
My grandma is 90 and drove a 1996 ford taurus. if there's ever a car to come after the Century, it's the Taurus. "no heat, gotta save gas dearie" "no radio, gotta save gas dearie"
***** and the radio does? Sure, if you're going to get technical, the radio does put drag on the alternator. But if you're going to get that nitpicky, then using the heat (when it's cold outside) also adds drag due to the blower motor, and, the fact you're removing heat from the engine and lowering it's optimal temperature.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
I once saw an ad at 3 am that said "if you or a loved one has died of mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation etc." If my dad hadn't been watching TV with me nobody would believe me.
We had a 86 as well, and nailed my father 100%. Ours was midnight blue and it had pinstriping, it was the limited model with the power antenna. We also had an 83 gray skylark as well.
or because driving one makes you feel like you're 100 years old. i know the one i had back in the day made me want to go to McDonalds for breakfast every day and sit in a booth by myself reading the paper.
Car Lover lol I'm 20 and had one I bought it for $800 with like 96k miles best purchase I ever made someone put sugar water in its gas tank at some point and it's still running like a champ during this Chicago winter !
Noemii Draaa yeah, I kinda like this kind of cars. If I was in America I'd probably drive one of these. There's a limit at how fast you can go but there's no lit at how comfortable you can be while you are driving. But hey, currently driving another dad's car. An '04 jaguar x-type. 2l DIESEL! *dat 60 mpg tho!*
This is incredible. Simply incredible. I worked at Buick when I was a teenager. The Century Wagon had gearing that allowed it to smoke the wheels......Nothing better.
@@SHBazTBone the iron duke was very good in Jeeps and small trucks. Where you never really need to rev it all that high as the Duke had a pretty good torque curve for them. It really shouldn't have been in most of the cars GM shoved it into
I owned the Cutlass version of this (1993)... passed on to me when my grandmother stopped driving. It was black cherry and I remember my grandma telling me this when she first bought it. It was as clean as the one shown here, I think it had 24k miles in 2013. It was a nice change of pace driving that car with the bench seat and auto trans. It just floats down the road.
I had a 96 as my first car. Amazes me that it looks almost identical to the 89. Wish I still had it. So many high school and college memories in that car. Loved the review!
This was my first car. My 1991 had a 4 speed with over-drive and was pretty peppy, or at least I drove like it was. The 3.3L was a great engine, it was based on the 3.8L and was bullet proof. They had a rough idle and loved to shake and rumble. GM replaced it with the garbage 3.1L that was plagued with problems like Intake manifold gasket issues and head issues. The 3.3L was a great car to learn engines with. You could disconnect the fuel injectors from the top of the motor. Locating problematic cylinders was no problem. I remember I was trying to figure out which injector was going bad and was able to keep the motor running on 3 cylinders. I just sold the car recently after owning it for 10 years. It broke my heart to see it go, but it was too reliable to just sit there being unused. I sold it to a reformed meth-head for 400 dollars.
I tried selling my car to a "reformed meth-head for 400 dollars", and he crashed my bulletproof Nissan 200SX within minutes. Technically less than an hour later, he flipped the car on its roof less than a mile away. The bill of sale written on a burger king napkin saved me a lot of hassle.
My first car was my late great-grandfather's '89 Buick Century Custom. Definitely tried to 'do the century' on a back road in Eastern WI. Also, tried turning it into a rally car on a gravel road. SO NOSTALGIC.
i love my 99 century 3.1 is fast enough to be fun...but always leaves you wishing it was a regal with a surcharged 3.8.... and havent been pulled over for drunk driving my century......cops just think its granny trying to get home but...ive put as much money into the stereo as i have buying the car....it actually works really well as a platform for subs, amps, etc trunk is big enough for groceries and 2 subs..... and as for it being a boat....that car is one of the lightest cars around...3300 pounds wet.... the 3.1 just kills that cars speed....but i do like the intake noise from the 3.1.....its bark is a lot worse than its bite.... but a "regal"...or a century with an engine swap that only takes 4 bolts to do.... you dont mess with a regal.... they are actuallly damn fast.....able to keep up with mustangs, vettes.....and other things that were neutered in the 90s and early 2000s
kain hall I had a 1990 supercharged regal...found it at a dealer, you know the story...old lady had it and passed away. probably my favorite car I've ever driven. and yes 100% it is a great sleeper..until I upgraded the exhaust lol
kain hall I got an l67 Park Ave Ultra I was thinking bout either fixing it up (mainly needs cosmetic work) or swapping its motor and trans into my 96 Regal
I still have my 93 regal with the 3.8. Absolutely love the thing. On top of the performance, they just last forever too. I'm at 389k miles now without ever rebuilding anything. If you can get past the granny look, they're comfortable, reliable, fast, and fairly cheap to keep running. I really wanted RCR to review it when they did their "southern stab" season.
I loved my 2000 3.8 Impala, but at 230k, the radiator started leaking, and it was so rusty, it would've been impossible to remove it without breaking other shit.
Puse Yup. Interestingly enough, the Drivers Ed teacher was also the HS's Head Football Coach. His personal car was also a Buick of a similar color. Coincidence? I think not...
Back in my day, the (82-88) Century was the backup for the Drivers Ed car. Ours was Brown with a brown interior. Of course, this is made a lot sadder by the fact that this was in 2008.... Had to drive that junker when the Taurus got a flat.
My parents owned an '88 Olds Cutlass Ciara in silver. Watching this was throwing back some serious memories. I would play with the ash trays in the back seat by opening and closing them all the time. As you get older, you realize how big GM parts bin was and how everything looked the same no matter what the badge is on the car.
Had a '93 Buick Century as my first car. Served me well for 7 years with no mechanical failures. That 3.3 started every time you asked without question. Bought from an old lady down the street and wish I never gave it to my sister.
+heirofaniu But what about something bigger, better (_citation_ needed)? How about... New Yorker? Mark V? Ooh, how about a Hurst/Olds! So many old malaise CREAM YELLOW AND BROWN bricks that he can review!
And once again i'm sitting here downing cheap beer and rewatching your videos while trying my best to stave off depression and the voices. Thank you mr.RCR i know one day the sun will shine and untill that day comes i have this comfy viewing to help me accelerate time before i go to bed, i love your content so much ive pretty much memorised most of it. Theteam behind this channel are a talented bunch much love man
At 18-20, I thought it was really kinda bothersome when grandma sent me news articles. But now at 30, looking back, I really liked her articles. She can’t send them anymore. Love you GG
True story, unbeknownst to the family, I had bought my grandmother's '95 Olds Ciera (same car basically) and got it road worthy just in time for her funeral. Nobody in our family had seen the car in about 4 years, and it's suddenly in the parking lot at the funeral home. Very interesting day. The car made me smile and think of her every time I drove it. While I parted with it, I now have a '96 Ciera wagon and a '93 Century sedan. Both are way nicer than hers was from use and abuse. Well made reliable cars. If I want excitement, I have a race car.
I drive a 1990 Century Custom in the same light blue tone and similar mileage (got it with 46000 original kilometers). I got it from a very nice 98 years old Croatian lady who bought it brand new and barely drove the car for the last 26 years,It was still sitting on the original white wall tires. Two days before I went to pick It up the car at her place she gave me a call saying that she was having a hard time to start the car and she wasn't going to sell me a lemon. She spent around 65% of what I paid for It on new spark plugs,injectors and a battery.Got a new tire set and flushed all the fluids and this car has been an excellent ride. The only critic I have is the awful paintwork that peels off,I've seen a bunch of GM cars with this issue,specially white ones.
My uncle had an early 80's one of these and I remember that the rear windows were of a fixed type that had no mechanisms to roll them down! Apparently this was some cost savings thing that GM did. With vinyl seats, no A/C and no rear windows -- it was a torture chamber for summers in Boston!
Love it. When I was young and broke and just needed something that would get me to work I had owned two of these, a '90 and a '91. I discovered that if these cars spent their life in the north that the brake lines would rust through and eventually blow under the pressure of heavy braking....and thus endeth the life of the first Century I had. A friend of mine knew a guy who was selling a '91 Century cheap, so I bought that one and used my wrecked '90 as a parts car, which worked well. I drove the '91 for awhile and also had a brake line blow due to rust on that car as well. Luckily I didn't wreck it when the brake line blew. Eventually I hit a curb pretty hard with the rear wheel and literally ripped the suspension off the unibody. And thus endeth the life of the second Century I had. I enjoyed how these cars rode, they felt like they were floating and you didn't feel the road at all.
wow, man. you're my favorite writer these days. like reading dave barry's column in the back of my sunday tribune magazine around the time these cars were on the road. I was a little envious of people riding around in these sleek modern looking buicks. What did I know, I was in grade school and we drove in my father's only new car, a 1971 Chevy tradesman station wagon that made it to the end of the Reagan era.
oh, the V6 Accord. Get ready to mourn the death of that beauty. 2018 marks the the Accord's transformation into a big Civic. Sharing the same platform and engine as the 10th gen Civic. No more V6. Turbo 4s for everyone.
GM A-body, one of the best ever. You still see quite a few of these on the road today which shows how well they were made, plus the people who originally bought them was grandma, so they were also well maintained.
Ye mine is bombproof, got it for 600$ minor rust just surface rust on the passenger door but other than that it was flawless also got a free set of new tires too ; ) that's what made it the best deal I've gotten for a car ever completely flawless car
I feel so called out by this car review. I am a millennial with boomer parents and I am obsessed with my mid 90s buick century wagon. Omg obsessed❤❤❤ You re my favorite review channel.
1989 Buick century custom, the official car of " what are you doing with your life smart guy, hu? At your age I memorized the Bible and was top of my class in military school* *AND I SPANKED IT TO AN OLD WORN POSTER OF MARILYN MONROE UNDER THE ATTIC STAIRS NEXT TO A BOX OF CIVIL WAR PHOTOS WHILE MY MOTHER GOD BLESS HER SOUL CALLED ME FOR DINNER AS I CAME AND THOUGHT ABOUT CATHOLIC GUILT
One of my long past ex girlfriends had a 91 or 93 Century. (I can't remember which year.) Same color. Seems that most of them are that light blue. Same faux wire wheel hubcaps. Ran like a champ. Drove beautifully. I loved the full taillight strip, but the one thing about it bothered me was at night, it seemed to be wider in the middle due to the 4 bulbs had to be spaced out to make room for the reverse lights. (As a Star Wars fan, it reminded me of Darth Mauls shuttle engine from Phantom Menace. So with that, I could live with the displaced section of 4 lights.) We also installed a set of those cheap "Blazer" brand halogen fog lights under the front bumper. Added a bit of 20% tint to the back and 50% to the front side windows. My favorite thing about the car was that clever little map light. That thing was always on when we went anywhere after dark. It was just so handy to be able to see the little plastic floor-console /cupholder /CD rack thingy she had on the hump with that light right there. That, and the nice back seat for when we got "lost" on some dark, back road somewhere.😉😏 Again that little map light giving just the right amount of soft illumination back there.. Good times... I sometimes miss them both. Her and her Century...
so buick stuck a name plate that originally stood for 100mph on a car that supposedly only got to 85, and a decade and a half later Chrysler put the 300 name that was originally meant to indicate 300HP on a car only putting out 250.
Josh Samuelson I had a lesabre was a decent car. I got a regal (third gen) now that I got for $400 with a bad fuel pump fixed that and it's taken me anywhere I need since
my dads 97 lesaber has 250k miles on it....needed a trans rebuild at 200k ive got a 99 century with 190k....only needed a CPS sensor for 2 bucks..5 mins and 1 bolt later it was installed ive also had to put like 6 window regulators in my century.,....bad design.....but they are cheap and easy to put in... buick makes a car that just doesnt stop.....and ill take that over looks, handling, ETC my family is poor....we need all of our cars to be 250k cars....
also....400 bucks for a fuel pump? you know the pump was probably only 120 bucks right.....(or half the price for an el cheap-o brand) im too poor and know too much about mechanics to do a fuel pump at the dealer....they are not that hard... but always seen to go out when you fill up the tank.....
My sending unit was good so I just bought a replacement pump and rebuilt mine and put it back in car and it fired up. Haven't had any problems with it since already put 10k on it too
Yes! My bud had one of those in high school and he was the first of us to get his license. We used to cruise around in his silver one and it was so hilarious. I miss that thing...
Thank you so much for doing this review. I had a 92 with the four speed as my first car.... passed down from my baby-boomer father. You nailed this one :)
This is one of your best reviews. super funny. super resonant. slap some spinning 22" rims on it and some beat in the trunk and you can also look like a drug dealer. this car is versitile! Merica
