Reatta Royalty

Someday, the Buick Reattas — those funky two-seat pseudo sports cars Buick sprang on the public back in 1988 — might really gather steam as collector prizes and have a lot of people pining over them.

If it doesn’t happen, it won’t bother Bradley Czech too much. He loved them long before they started inching into the collector spectrum. Now he has three of them — including a wonderfully restored 1990 Select 60 model, the rarest of the breed — and his devotion to the Reatta seemingly grows with each passing year.

“I remember as a kid in Michigan going to the car dealership where my dad worked and they had a Reatta on their sales floor, and it was one of those small dealerships where they had only about four cars,” chuckles the Green Bay, Wis., resident. “I remember seeing a blue Reatta and thinking, ‘Wow, this car is kind of sporty, and it’s kind of neat, and it’s got all this electronic stuff. Years later, as an adult, I was talking to my wife and I said, ‘You know, I’d like to find one of those some day.’”