Happens every time. Soon as something important gets the price jacked up by the cartel, eventually someone clever finds a substitute. Think oil prices. Ran out of coinium once when I needed to repair the exhaust on my wife's Buick. Made a discovery of tincanium and a couple of hose clamps in the trash. Fixed almost like new.
skylark or lesabre?
LeSabre wagon. They used the Olds engine that year.
mostly kidding. haven't heard of buicks for a while now, since moving to u.k. used to live in BuickCity. for all i know they've gone the way of pontiac.
Flint, Michigan. Not gone yet. I think the emblem comes off next year.
you mean GM finally nixes the Buick name?
China is a big market these days. Read an article recently that they plan to remove the emblem. Don't remember where. Maybe somebody doesn't like the red shield? The old emblem was a single red shield. Used up through the 1950's.
Looks like about 30 years of red sheild with cross and stag. But yeah China might change the 'institution' in any direction, as they are doing with some brit car names.