Value: $75,000
Original price: $1,524
General Motors was among the first automakers to put real emphasis on design in creating its new cars. An example is the Buick Century which was also one of the first examples of what would later be called a "muscle car." It was one of Buick's smallest cars but it had the biggest available engine, a 130 horsepower 8-cylinder that helped give the car a 100 mile per hour top speed.
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