Family Skylark

Scott Starkey’s 1966 Buick Skylark takes him back to when he was in kindergarten.

That was in 1969 — the same year that his parents, Bob and Maxine, acquired the Buick from an Indianapolis dealership. They became the car’s second owners.

The parents of two kids traded in a 1967 International Travelall “with brakes that always squealed,” Starkey said. “My mom never liked it because my dad could never get that noise to stop.” So they made a vehicle-and-cash transaction that yielded two “new to them” vehicles — the Skylark and a 1966 Chevy Impala station wagon.

The Buick