In the movie “Pleasantville”, two modern day teenagers are sent back in time to the perfect 1950’s middle-America community . There were no pregnancies, no divorce, no plastics and no fab diets. The milkman made his delivery every morning, and the most unthinkable saga was a cat stuck in a tree. And everyone had an American made car in the driveway, including the Buick Roadmaster that belonged to the primary household. Those were Buick’s brightest days- the age of bench seats and floaty suspensions. Fast forward to more recent times and in the late 90’s and early 2000’s Buick was nothing more than an afterthought. A rebadged Chevy with added chrome and large, easy to read radio buttons that you’d only find in the senior center parking lot. Buick’s sales numbers spiralled downhill as its targeted clientele aged. Things looked bleak, but then a funny thing happened…..
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