“This Buick is huge,” Cochran says. “Sometimes when I’m driving it around, it seems more like I’m driving a boat trying to navigate it places. … My father says when he was starting out in the business ...

Full-size cars brought home the bacon in the '60s for American carmakers, and while the Chevrolet Impala dominated this space, becoming the best-selling model in the country, Buick bet big on the ...