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The Buick Skylark was a passenger car produced by the Buick division of General Motors. The model was made in six production runs. In each production, the car design varied quite dramatically. This was due to changing technology, changing tastes, and new standards being implemented over the years. Introduced to mark Buick's 50th anniversary, the Buick Skylark (a name previously used by short-lived Hupp for their sporty 1939 Cord-based "Hupmobile Skylark") on one of three specialty convertibles produced in 1953 by General Motors; the other two were the Oldsmobile fiesta and the Eldorado. All three were limited production vehicles promoting General Motors' design leadership. Of the three, the Skylark had the most successful production run with 1,690 produced. This was considered quite an amazing sales feat, for the car had a list price in 1953 of slightly in excess of US$5,000. In the fall of 1960, General Motors introduced a trio of new compact cars for the 1961 model year which all shared the same chassis, engines (with some differences between the three models), and basic sheet metal, although each one had unique front and rear styling and differences in exterior and interior trim which made each model unique. Based on the Corvair chassis, the Pontiac Tempest, Oldsmobile F-85, and Buick Special featured front engines and rear-wheel drive. Beginning with the 1964 model year, the Buick Skylark, along with the lower-priced Special from which it was derived, would move to a new intermediate-size chassis that was shared with the Oldsmobile F-85, Pontiac Tempest, and the new Chevrolet Chevelle. The new chassis had a wheelbase of 115 inches and the Buick Special and Skylark had a length of 203.5 inches. In the middle of the 1973 model year Buick returned to the compact market with the Buick Apollo, using General Motors’ X-body platform and heavily based on the Chevrolet Nova. When the car was extensively restyled for the 1975 model year the 2-door hatchback sedan (coupe) and 2-door sedan (coupe) were rechristened as “Skylark” models, while the 4-door sedan remained as an “Apollo.” Radical new wedge-shaped styling appeared in 1992, with a sharply-pointed grille reminiscent of the 1960s model.
