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1950 buick special deluxe
1950 buick special deluxe









1950 buick special deluxe

That is to say, as long-ago-departed auto writer Tom McCahill might have put it, it cornered with the sort of body roll and brake dive you'd expect to see in a drunk celebrant performing the watusi on a frigate crossing the Atlantic in a bad storm. Recently, Buick has enjoyed great success and a high.

1950 buick special deluxe

Now, a division of General Motors, Buick is considered to be General Motor’s only North American-based entry-level luxury brand with four models. Here the Special Deluxe lived up to both its names. Buick was founded as an independent car manufacturer in 1903 by David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan. And things got even more old timey when the Buick was holding forth on some of the many sharp and less well paved corners the Drive has to offer. Hydraulic drum brakes-if they weren't called Jet Puffed they should've been-were a workout that worked, but just barely. Its vacuum-operated wipers-which tend to slow down at speed and under acceleration-did not spring to attention and a defroster that couldn't fog a mirror when Jackie Robinson was playing in Brooklyn didn't help. Maisel pop-up, the Buick was holding its own, but then it began to rain. Heading up Manhattan's FDR Drive on the way home from the Mrs. Not just because of the portholes on its front fenders, three on either side, or the three-piece rear windscreen.

1950 buick special deluxe

There's no mistaking my Buick for a modern ride.











1950 buick special deluxe