Buick doesn't always get the muscle car respect it deserves, but the brand built some genuinely thrilling machines across the decades, from turbocharged street brawlers to swoopy personal luxury coupes. Right now, Motorious has a particularly strong crop of Buicks listed for sale, spanning nearly a century of the marque's history. Here are ten of the coolest ones currently up for grabs, counting down to the wildest of them all.
No. 10: 1996 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon Collectors Edition — $17,900
Kicking off the list is proof that not every cool Buick has to be a muscle car. This 1996 Roadmaster Estate Wagon Collectors Edition is the last of the great American land yachts, riding on a body-on-frame chassis with a 260-horsepower LT1 V8 under the hood, faux woodgrain siding, and enough cargo room to haul the whole family plus the vintage furniture. It's a rolling piece of Detroit history that's as comfortable on a road trip as it is at a cars and coffee.
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No. 9: 1990 Buick Reatta Convertible — $24,900
Buick's answer to a two-seat personal luxury car, the Reatta was hand-assembled at the brand's dedicated Lansing Craft Centre and remains one of GM's most distinctive experiments. This 1990 convertible shows just 9,901 miles, has had only two owners, and comes with its original window sticker still in hand. Its digital dash and touchscreen climate controls felt like something out of the future in 1990, and clean, low-mile droptops like this one are getting harder to find every year.
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No. 8: 1963 Buick Wildcat 2 Door Hardtop — $29,900
The 1963 Wildcat was Buick's take on a personal muscle-luxury coupe, wrapping a burly 401 cubic inch Nailhead V8 in a sharp two-door hardtop body with bucket seats and a floor shifter. This one has been treated to a rebuilt 401 making 325 horsepower, four-wheel power disc brakes, and a smooth-shifting Dynaflow automatic, plus factory heat and air conditioning. It's a genuine road-trip cruiser that looks just as sharp parked outside a diner as it does eating up highway miles.
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No. 7: 1972 Buick Riviera Boat Tail — $34,900
Bill Mitchell's swoopy boattail design reached its final and most dramatic form for 1972, and this example wears it well. The fastback rear deck and knife-edge fenders still turn heads more than fifty years later, and under the hood sits Buick's torquey 455 cubic inch V8 paired with a Turbo Hydra-Matic transmission. It's one of the most distinctive personal luxury coupes GM ever built, and prices for clean boattails have been climbing steadily.
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No. 6: 1941 Buick Series 40A Model 44C Convertible — $86,500
This 1941 Series 40A convertible keeps its flowing prewar Buick lines and factory Press-a-Button power top, but underneath it's been given a full resto-mod heart transplant. A 401 cubic inch Nailhead V8 backed by a ST400 automatic and a 12-bolt rear end brings modern drivability, while a Mustang II front end adds power steering and disc brakes up front, and the cabin has been fitted with heat and air conditioning. It's a rare prewar classic that can actually keep up with modern traffic.
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No. 5: 1970 Buick GS455 — $87,900
Only 1,184 GS455 convertibles were built for 1970, and this California car is one of just 58 finished in Gulfstream Blue. It's numbers-matching down to its factory 455 cubic inch V8 with the correct SR suffix code, and it was ordered new with 17 factory options including air conditioning and a tilt steering wheel. Buick's GS455 could run with just about anything else on the street in 1970, and this one comes backed by its original owner's manual, sales brochure, and a copy of the factory build sheet.
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No. 4: 1954 Buick Skylark — $95,000
Buick's original Skylark was a low-volume halo convertible built to show off what the brand could do when money was no object, and this teal example still turns heads today. Riding on a shortened Roadmaster chassis with a wraparound windshield, chrome wire wheels, and a distinctive notched beltline, it's powered by Buick's smooth 322 cubic inch Nailhead V8 paired with a Dynaflow automatic. Fewer than 850 were built for 1954, making this one of the rarer, more special postwar Buicks around.
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No. 3: 1965 Buick Skylark GS — $97,998
Only 598 1965 Gran Sport convertibles left the factory with a four-speed manual, and this numbers-matching example is one of them. It's been treated to a frame-off restoration finished in its original Flame Red, and it still packs Buick's 401 cubic inch Nailhead V8 backed by that rare stick shift. Fit and finish on this car rivals anything from Pontiac or Chevy, proving Buick could build a genuine muscle car when it wanted to.
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No. 2: 1987 Buick Grand National — $65,995
The Grand National is the car that turned Buick into a legitimate street performance brand, and this bone-stock example is about as good as they get. It's one of 20,193 built in 1987, shows a genuine 16,650 miles, and has had only three owners since new, with copies of the original titles to back it up. Its turbocharged 3.8-liter V6 and murdered-out black paint still look every bit as menacing today as they did rolling off the showroom floor.
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No. 1: 1987 Buick GNX — $179,900
The GNX is the ultimate expression of Buick's turbocharged muscle era, built with ASC/McLaren to take the Grand National formula even further, with just 547 examples produced. This investment-grade car is number 111 of that run, shows only 35,000 original miles, and comes backed by extensive documentation to support its collector-grade condition. With a more aggressive turbo setup, a beefed-up drivetrain, and a subtle body kit, the GNX remains one of the fastest American cars of the 1980s, and clean, low-mile examples like this one rarely come up for sale.
View this 1987 Buick GNX here.