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Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
It is a dirty shame that Wisconsin's Rep. Jeffrey Wood, I-Chippewa Falls, was caught for a fifth time driving under the influence of alcohol. A video was released yesterday showing Wood getting pulled over after officers see his Buick Skylark stop in the middle of a road and then slowly swerve across both lanes of traffic. When he was asked to walk a straight line, he stumbled backward into his car...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
TOMAH, Wis. (AP)-- A squad car video shows a Wisconsin lawmaker falling down during a sobriety test that led to his third arrest in less than a year on suspicion of driving under the influence. The video released Tuesday by Tomah police shows Rep. Jeffrey Wood getting pulled over after officers see his Buick Skylark stop in the middle of a road and then slowly swerve across both lanes of traffic. When...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe offers up a Convertible X-car that could be the last Omega you'll ever buy. Ford wagons apparently hold a special spot in the hearts of Jalopnikadians. Only a bitter and angry 5% of you went for the Crack Pipe lever on yesterday's '66 ten-seater , before going back to pasting up vitriol-filled letters to the government...
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
One man is dead and another critically injured after a shooting Friday afternoon in the Longwood Manor neighborhood. At about 2:11 p.m. Friday, police responded to shots fired in the 9500 block of South Wallace Street, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez. Justin Silas, 24, of the 8500 block of South Dante Avenue, was found with a gunshot wound to the torso, Perez said. He was taken...
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News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Men, Math and Marriage By Paul Elam I’ve been just sitting here for 30 minutes now. My hands have been poised over my laptop, but they’re frozen. Actually they have a slight tremble, like all the keys are painted with cyanide and my fingers know it. I have decided to do a piece offering some marital advice to men. And I know men pretty well. I might as well be doing a porn review for the...
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The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Easy (Warm-Up for TTAC’s Best and Brightest) 1. Major Anthony Nelson on I Dream of Jeanie drove a convertible of what 1960’s muscle car? Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 Buick Skylark GTX Pontiac G.T.O. Oldsmobile 442 2. Starsky and Hutch patrolled the streets in Starsky’s? 1974 Ford Grand Torino 1975 Ford Grand Torino 1969 Mercury Cyclone 1975 Ford Thunderbird 3. In Vegas what car did Robert...
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Green Laker (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
Back before the days of the Illinois Toll Authority's iPass system (and before they had video survelliance at every tool both), when you had to throw a fistfull of change to open the gates on the TriState, Necco Wafers were often found in my car. Why would I have these horrible-tasting "candies"? Well, when I started terrorizing the suburbs in my mom's sweet turd-brown 1981 Buick Skylark...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Auto manufacturers frequently use animals as inspiration for names. While many can identify the cars by sight, do you think you can do the opposite and name the cars by seeing a picture of the animal inspiring the name? Try to be the first to match all twenty of these animals to the car that's named after them without checking out the answers. Only you'll know if you looked ahead and cheated. Good...
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FYI Blog (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
“1954 Buick 100 Skylark Sports Car. This is a re-edit of a previously posted photo taken at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.” Today’s photo comes from Bill Strong. Be sure to look at all of Bill Strong’s photos and our other albums. And if you would like to recommend your favorite photo with a GM [...]
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Redding police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with a hit-and-run accident that injured three people. The incident took place at 6:16 p.m. Thursday at Cypress Avenue and Oxford Road. A Dodge Stratus headed east on Cypress made a left turn, colliding with a Buick Skylark traveling west on Cypress, according to a news release from the Redding Police Department. The male driver of the Dodge...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 01/23/2009
Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's an example of badge engineering from the perhaps-best-forgotten GM X-Body platform. While Chrysler's front-wheel-drive K cars were giving the company a new lease on life after near-failure and a government bailout at the tail end of the Malaise Era, The General wasn't...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Rather than throw elbows in a deal-frenzied crowd of Christmas shoppers on Black Friday last week, I accompanied Black Metal V8olvo crew chief Hellhammer on a parts-car-obtainment mission down to Santa Cruz. Highway 17 was full of shoppers, however, and I spotted this Buick Skylark convertible hauling a huge LCD television and maintaining a pretty decent clip. Note the added safety the dual bungee...
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
A 15-month-old boy went to the hospital with minor injuries after he was struck by a car in the Heights. Shortly after 5 p.m., a Buick Skylark, driven by a 16-year-old boy, was eastbound on Wicks Lane when it crossed the center line into oncoming traf ...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Even though we had a GM A-Body here just last week , I liked the look of this Skylark so much that I just can't wait to share it. This could mean that Chrysler A-Body fans might feel slighted (yes, nearly a month has gone by since our last one ), but not to...
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Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Most of you approved of the super-beater ‘70 Skylark, with a small but vocal minority who felt physical pain at the very sight of the beat-to-hell Buick. I’m pretty sure that the approval rating of today’s Skylark will be be fairly high across the board, given that it’s a 40-year-old red convertible that lives on [...]
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