The General shrank the Buick Electra for the 1977 model year and then ditched the model entirely in 1990, so the '76 was the last of the proper single-digit-fuel-economy Electras. These comfy gerontocrusiers used to be everywhere on American roads, even in the dark days after gas prices went crazy, and you still see them in wrecking yards today, but for some reason I've photographed just one prior to today's Junkyard Find.
Sir Mix-a-Lot immortalized the beat-up Electra as the iconic hooptie 26 years ago (not long before I photographed this '73 on a Stockton highway).
The 455-cubic-inch V8 was down to a mere 205 horsepower in 1976 (27 more than the base four-cylinder engine in the 2015 Camry), but it still had (and needed) a fairly healthy 345 lb-ft of torque.
I have never seen one of these "digital" GM dash clocks with the scrolling seconds reel that worked, not even when they were new.
AM, FM, 8-track— just the thing for your Gary Wright tapes (although your typical Buick buyer in 1976 most likely listened to something more like this tape).
Buick stuck with the black-on-silver gauge schtick for quite a few years after this.
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