![]() ![]() In a two-tonne car measuring more than two metres wide and 5.3 metres long, the 82kW 4.1-litre straight-eight didn’t quite deliver on performance expectations (a larger-capacity 4.3-litre engine existed elsewhere in the Buick range), but the experience was wonderfully smooth and quiet. ![]() Images of warm-night cruising along some shoreside boulevard with the top down become almost irresistible. ![]() ![]() Take a look at this 1948 Buick Super Eight convertible (advertised as a 1946 model but identified as otherwise on the original body-by-Fisher build plate) offered for sale through carsales for $65,000. As a 'lost object', it is then held by police Troop D. The Buick was left at a gas station by an enigmatic owner who immediately disappeared without a trace and was never seen again. As part of the brand’s USP (unique selling proposition) they were, as proclaimed on the badges and the hugely-toothy grilles, Buick Eights. The Buick also called Buick 8 is a possessed 1953 Buick Roadmaster and main antagonist from the Stephen Kings novel From a Buick 8. Among GM prestige brands, Buick sat a tad below Cadillac in the company hierarchy.īuicks tended towards a more muscular image than their more flamboyant cousins, a stance best expressed from the 1930s onwards by the inline eight-cylinder engines that – until 1954 when V8s were adopted – were a strong part of an individualistic corporate identity.īuicks weren’t just Buicks. ![]()
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