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As a child I had an unironic love for the 1977-1979 C-body GM cars. They had such blunt-faced menace to them. The Buick Electra and Olds 98 were very effective ways to signal that you didn’t think you were rich enough for a Cadillac, while in fact being rich enough for a Cadillac. Today, that niche of “I’m just a normal middle-class person with a $500k …