1980 Buick Electra Dealer Demonstration

This is form a 1979 promotional LaserDisc that I found it is for 1980 model year Buick's.

In 1978 GM contracted with Pioneer and MCA/DiscoVision to put the Pioneer PR-7800 LaserDisc player into its dealerships, the discs where to be used for demonstrations as in this disc or for training purposes.

Now in the early days of laserDisc manufacture there was a very high failure rate, sometimes as high as 85% during the mastering/pressing process, so that left a lot of sides of discs that where unusable. Well these where used to fill the blank side of a disc, the "dead" side was then coated with a special plastic that was clear to the human eye, but it would not reflect the laser beam, thus the side would not play. Well the coating can be removed with rubbing alcohol, which is what I did.
These reject discs will ONLY play on the older style of laserDisc player that uses a laser tube.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 1980 Buick Electra
• MCA DiscoVision
• LaserDisc
• GM Dealer Demo

[TurboVW2004]

@AlphaBetaParkingLot Put an '80 Electra next to a 2010 Civic and please tell me which car is more "elegant."

[walyern]

I'm heading to my dealer now for a test drive!

[kdemonde]

Always loved those Buick sport rims.

[JourneyRocks81]

Respond to this video... these are such beautiful car's. I had a 1984 Buick Electra, very nice car. today's cars just look alike, no character what so ever.

[JourneyRocks81]

@walyern me too

[vega660]

bullshit if they say those cars dont rust out, anything GM made after 76 the quality was not as good as before. always the doors rusted out before anything else would on the 77 and newer cars. biggest mistake was putting trim on the bottom part of the door, salt, dirt, road debre would get traped in there and eat a hole in the door after a few years. there all GREAT cars to drive,what would be better if they didnt have that trim piece on the bottom, and a better motor AKA a economic buick 350 v8

[jakesaintsrow123]

Agreed!! I Drive a 1985 Skylark Limited In Mint Excellent shape..LOVE It ..My first car

[Rtfune]

I would re-tune the suspension even more to make it "FLOAT" going down the highway. I have always LOVED these buicks from this era- I used to own a 1983 Buick Regal and it was like G.M. took a Monte Carlo and made it into a Cadillac. It was so plush and smooth!!! I better stop now before I get way ahead of myself!! BUT I think this will be my next project. Since G.M. sold so many of these thruout the 1980's, there are still plenty of well kept examples left that I have to choose from.

[Rtfune]

The more I think about it, the more I would not mind trying to fing oneof these (since there are still some well kept examples left- and making it like it rolled off the line, WITH the best of todays safety features, like all disc brakes, and I would put a Buick Roadmaster 350 engine under the hood and re-paint it a flat-based paint with the best in todays clear-coat paints. Of cource, I would NOT want the exhaust to sound like a hot-rod, I want it to be dualed out with factory mufflers.

[Rtfune]

Those were some REALLY good cars!!

[eyeh8nbc]

Good playback quality- what movie did you find this on? Doesn't sound like it's in stereo here- did this have Spanish on the right channel? One of these that I've uploaded has just the music on the right channel, which is pretty cool.