We’ve all seen it happen. That melancholy moment when the family workhorse gets put out to pasture, officially retired from daily duty. From there, the vehicle’s first few months in storage quickly turn into years, and years turn into decades, as the once prominent transport of family and life gets buried in layers of dust and dirt—sometimes becoming convenient horizontal storage for other cast-aside items of daily life.
Our featured 1964 Buick LeSabre convertible was one such vehicle, unceremoniously retired after years of committed service, and banished to the back of a family’s storage space for half a lifetime. Though this seems to be a brief, bleak recap of this LeSabre’s history, there is an upside to the near tragic tale. Luckily, by a twist of fate, this drop-top cruiser’s metal had been preserved, and the
