Guest Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 I've always wondered how "close" the ties are between fellow reatta owners are. The only times I've spotted reattas, unfortunately i was in someone else's car. Yesterday i finally got my chance as i met another reatta on the freeway. Just like I expected, we exchanged a wave, smile, and a couple friendly honks.Doesn't everyone do this? Or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tempest68 Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Shortly after buying our '89 White/Red coupe, I was on the way to work. While sitting at a light, I looked over and saw what looked like a mirror image across from me waiting to turn left (in front of me). As the gentlemen cross in front, we both waved and smiled. "Its a Reatta thing, others wouldn't understand!" Can we get that embroidered on a polo shirt or something? (we're too classy for t-shirts!).If anyone in/near York PA would like to create an informal Reatta club, let me know. It'd be fun to do a road tour or crash a local car show or something. If anyone from around here is going to Flint this year and is interested in travelling together, let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 [color:"red"] We have two Reattas both 90's. While driving them both home from church recently my son and I passed a red 89 pulling out of a parking lot. Sure enough it followed us to a resturant and we talked about Reattas for several minutes. It was really a nice time 3 Reattas in a parade. As far as I know their are only four in our area and we had 3 of them in a parade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booreatta Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 Jim If you are looking for a car show to crash you can come crash mine,as usual i will have the only Reatta in the show and i always get the same comment (oh i have never seen one of those it's cute) sooo if you are near Kansas this May come crash. Pa. is only a 17 hour drive and thats what i call local. Just follow the [color:"[color:red"] yellow brick road. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gomer Posted April 1, 2003 Share Posted April 1, 2003 I live in winnipeg canada (If u didn't know) and i have NEVER seen another reatta. It is disapointing some times to know i am the only reatta still on the road in winnipeg!! does anyone know of another reatta in winnipeg still driving that i don't know about. i have heard that there is a blue one but i have never seen it. In the summer i try and take it out to our weekly car show. also i cruse down portage on sunday night and i do get a few looks from the older car owners but most people mistake it for a honda!!! I hope im not the only owner still driving my reatta in winnipeg. hope some day i will make it down to where most of u are to meet some fellow reatta owners and not feel so alone <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Howie Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 Shortly after buying my Reatta, I was on the main road here in VA Beach and saw a red Reatta up ahead of me. I got excited, hit the gas, caught up with it and honked and started waving before I really got a good look at it. Then, I realized that the car was in pretty bad shape - didn't look like it was anything its owner cared too much about. Then I caught sight of the two guys in it - they were acting all impressed with themselves that this girl was honking and waving at them - they obviously didn't know that I was honking at the car! Haven't seen another Reatta since.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 I am a police officer and worked an auto accident involving an 89 blue/tan coupe. The front end was heavily damamged and the insurance co. totalled it out. I wanted to cry for the owner, but I offered to buy it for parts instead. A little unethical for a cop maybe but I didn't want to pass up an opportunity! There are frequent reatta sitings in the west part of St. Louis county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Nor have I ever seen another Reatta while driving my '90. However, last fall while on my way to TheSon's cross country meet a very nice Fiero was on my tail. This on a very rural country road. Not one we could 'play' on though - too narrow and rough. He 'followed' me for 8 miles. Until I pulled into the school parking lot. At that point he turned around without saying high. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> But I do know where he is at now. Right across the road from the very school. I'm confident we will meet up sooner or later. It really was a nice Fiero. There are many around here, but usually nothing to write home about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RED891 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Must be because of the University of Illinois here as there are about 5 or 6 I see all the time around here and they seem to be driven everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 I live in a small town on the West Coast of Canada and believe it or not I have seen about 4 Reatta's here, one was even the same burgandy as mine. I pulled him over and we had a quick chat. Kinda fun. I used to own a '64 'Vette <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> and those owners would smile and wave too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikey Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 I'm in the Rockville, MD area and I see other Reatta's all the time. The only time I get close enough to wave is when I'm stuck driving the Saturn <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBlackMoon Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 I hail from Baltimore, MD. I see more and more Reattas in various conditions every year. Before I bought mine, I saw none, nada, zippo! I think as people see them, the fever spreads and more are bought as daily drivers as opposed to being kept locked away all of the time. Before about a year and a half ago, I rarely, if ever could even find any aftermarket parts, accessories, or even commercial listings for Reattas or Reatta oriented wares. Now, they're coming out of the woodwork like roaches when the lights are out!As for waving and honking... I wave and honk at every one of them, I have been stopped by, or have stopped, more than half of the owners I've seen, chit-chatted a bit, gone out to lunch with a few, and told as many as possible of the site and this support group. The comraderie we have, I believe, comes from knowing that we are the unique, we live outside of the "norms" and that, in turn, makes us, as a group, special. I sincerely believe that, were you to ask, the owners of the down-trodden, beat-up and broken down Reatta's, just have no idea about this site, or that there is still support available. I'd bet that most of them, if not all, just have resigned to the ideal that there are no parts, no support, and no one who really cares. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />Let me know when y'all decide to meet up. York's about how far from Harrisburg? From where I live, Harrisburg is about an hour away at best by 83N (gotta get through the city first). Kentucky... Well let's just say been there, done that, won't do it again (if I can help it), LOL. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />Maybe we should make this our motto:Yes, I'm proud to be an American, but I'm D*MN PROUD to be a Reatta Owner! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reatta1 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Here in the Portland, Oregon area I have seen 4 other Reatta's. All different colors than mine. 2 red, 1 white, and one blue. There is one other one I haven't seen. It is a red 91 that belongs to the owner of dealership where I get my service work done. I have talked with him about it and learned that his dad originaly sold it to a customer and that customer later wanted to trade it in. At that point they aquired it for the family collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Greg Ross Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 I'm struggling to, I cannot, in 6 and 1/2 years recall seeing more the 2 Reattas on the road-both Blue (go figure!)One here in Houma last Fall and one in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada approximately 3 years ago. That little City (pop. around 300K) had at least 4 other Reattas owned locally. A couple of hours east of there was a moderate sized town (Antigonish) where one of the two GM Dealers owned two.I've seen a reasonable number besides these parked/ at dealers/ for sale. etc.This is of course excepting the accumulation of 31 other Reattas in Buffalo two summeres ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 I see Reattas all the time in Maryland. I wave, but never honk the horn. I don't want my horn button to pop off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booreatta Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 I see them all the time here in Kansas, have even met several owners here I also honk and wave when i see them and yes I use all of my fingers [color:"red"] <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />when i wave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronvb Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 I have seen several in my area but usually zipping around,hard to catch sometimes.I remember parked in a toys r us parking lot once and this beutiful 90 white convertible rolled past.Gotta admit it the Reatta does have nice lines!ronvb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 Are many in the Orlando area possibly because at the time Buick was sponsoring several PGA tournaments in the area and provided courtesy cars - usually top of the line - to celebreties and officials. These cars usually wound up on local dealer's lots afterward. Add in the fact that the type of person who had a second Florida home was also the demographic the Reatta was targetted for in the first place and hence the significant population here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrispin Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Wow, so many from the Baltimore area, I live in Dundalk, and I've seen one other here, a red coupe with broken headlight motors, I also saw another burgundy in very good condition in Cecil Country. Perhaps we do have enough to set up a regional chapter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBlackMoon Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 Well if you ever see a red Coupe with a "bumper sticker" (really just the letters) saying, "Get In, Sit Down, Shut Up, And Hang On" on it, that's probably me. If you can catch me, honk and talk a bit. I'm always up for meeting new people. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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