French photographer Cédric Delsaux’s series “Dark Lens” injects lots of Star War characters into ultra-realistic cityscapes, along with a sense of humor, and in two examples, old cars. This one, “The Buick, Dubai 2009” has a perhaps battle-weary corps of droids resting against a ’75 (?) Buick Electra. Perhaps not surprisingly, Delsaux is also a commercial automotive photographer, with several car companies as clients (not Buick, I suspect).
The whole gallery is here, but I’ll show the other car-based one after the jump.
This one is called CPO and the White Visa, Paris 2005. BTW, the Citroën Visa was a small car built from the late seventies through the late eighties, designed essentially to replace the aging 2CV. Quite the contrast from the Buick.
Weird. But I like it.
Unlike the Citroen which is clearly a junker, I’m wondering if the Electra is a running car dirtied up for the cause of art. It looks pretty solid and complete. The partially missing plastic filler can be replaced from inside the trunk without removing the bumper, unlike the similar fillers on Cadillacs of that vintage. Ask me how I know.
Doubt it runs. It is a mid-70’s GM product after all
You do know that most GM cars run badly longer than most other cars run?
OK, how do you know?
And I bet that if you put a bead of silicone around the back window, the dust would be sealed out.
I like the them. Of course especially the Buick. I’d say it is a 75 too. The model is the Limited from the looks of the script on the quarter panel. I put a number of miles on one like it. The Limited was a stand alone model slotting under the Electra 225. Buick and Limited with the only badges inside or out on my 75. It made the trip to Yellowstone in 96 towing our 67 Forester 12′ travel trailer. So yes it looked tiny behind the big Buick. The Buick and it’s 455 didn’t know it was there. Thankfully gas was around $1 at the time so the ~12 MPG wasn’t too bad.
Just to pick a nit, the Limited sat ABOVE the Electra 225 in the pecking order, not below. There was the base Electra 225, the Electra 225 Custom and the Limited. I had a ’74 Limited and if memory serves me right the “225” name likewise did not appear anywhere on the outside of the car, just “Limited.” The delightfully over-the-top all gold velour interior sold me on the car. These Electras/Limiteds were within less than two inches of a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham in overall length and had noticeably bigger trunks than Cadillacs due to more rear overhang. It’s an ironic name given the car seemed to be designed as if there were no limits at all.
By that vintage there was a std Electra 225, Electra 225 Limited and Electra 225 Limited with a Park Avenue package that gave it an ultra post interior with an available center console with velour ala Fleetwood Talisman.
Electra Duece and a quarter!!!
I’ll bet you could make maybe 12 new droids out of that Buick.
That Buick gives off a vibe of not having moved in quite a while. I suppose that could be prop dust, but if so it’s skillfully applied.
The little Citroen looks like it was a few feet away from an IED explosion.
It looks like the Citroen was in the vicinity of the AT-ATs when they came through…
Was the Buick really in Dubai? I wonder….they do love big guzzlers over there.
OK, old geezer time; what, exactly, am I supposed to see here?