Want to Buy a Buick?

[Lawreston]

- - - be in touch.

HR
EDIT: For some reason my iPhone only put up one of the three photos. ???

 

[Lawreston]

Photo 2

 

[Lawreston]

Photo 3

 

[SCCutler]

Love to have it...

 

[Lawreston]

I was on the Harley today, en route to near Augusta when I saw the vehicle. If it had FOUR holes in the front fender it would be a RoadMaster; however, it's a Buick Special(1955). I turned around to go back and get a closer view. It came from the south quite a few years ago; this owner has had it for several years and purchased it from a local dealer. While I was was walking around it, he on an ATV came across the field. He told me about it and said that it's uncomfortable for him to drive. When he gets the seat moved appropriately forward the steering wheel gets in the way. The statement only made sense when he rapped his knuckles just below his right hip -- "KNOCK - KNOCK" while saying, "I have artificial legs." He climbed off the John Deere ATV, entered the Buick and started the V-8; and he was right: the steering wheel was tight against his crotch area. The engine sounded good. $12,000 was on the sign, though he said he's going to lower it to $10,000. It surely looks good for 59 years old. I didn't get his name but I know where it is. When I arrived at my daughter's house and showed the pictures, son in-law said,"Oh, that's over in Pittston." He had seen it.

That wasn't the only interesting occasion today. At the first stop light after that rural setting I came up behind a car with Maine registration #8752 TW. I pulled alongside the driver who told me he'd had that plate for just over a year. I told him that I had #8752 from 1998 to 2014 and that plate had been my father's from 1961 until his death in 1998. The similarity was such a strange coincidence. (When I sold the Austin Healey, #8752 is now on my cousin's Lexus, so it's still in the family.

HR

 

[LoneAspen]

That Buick looks better than the ones they make today (at least to me anyway).

I chuckle at their current commercials where granny says, "Sure doesn't look like a Buick." Yes it does. Yes. It. Does.

 

[Henning]

Nice. I noticed as well that with iOS you can only attach one pic per post.

 

[denverpilot]

I guess someone forgot to tell my iOS device about Henning's made up rule.

 

[Henning]

I guess someone forgot to tell my iOS device about Henning's made up rule.

Those are inline images. Now try uploading multiple attachment. I didn't make up a ****ing rule, I stated a ****ing observation. That's a double miss in reading comprehension.

 

[Archammer]

What a beautiful car!! Great pics!


Shane
The Squawk Shoppe
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[brian]]

That is one nice car!

I've thought about getting something like that for my wife - she is the car person. Just don't have the time / cash at the moment...

 

[kgruber]

I was on the Harley today, en route to near Augusta when I saw the vehicle. If it had FOUR holes in the front fender it would be a RoadMaster;
HR

Those holes are called "Cruiserline Ventiports!"

 

[Lawreston]

What a beautiful car!! Great pics!


Shane
The Squawk Shoppe
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Images not bad, for an iPhone; considering didn't have my DSLR/Carl Zeiss lens combination with me on the Harley.

HR

 

[Ghery]

My first car was a 1954 Buick Special. 3 holes. 264 ci V-8. Single barrel carb. Dynaflush transmission (put it in Drive and it was just a torque converter, never shifted). You could get lost in the back seat. And that was the small Buick. 1954 was the year they started using the V-8, previous years had the straight 8 (that was LONG). That thing was a tank. Nobody argued with it in traffic. I kind of miss that thing, but I don't miss the fact that it couldn't pass a gas station.

 

[Zeldman]

I would love to have it..!!!!


Key word here is have. I am not in position to buy it.

 

[denverpilot]

Those are inline images. Now try uploading multiple attachment. I didn't make up a ****ing rule, I stated a ****ing observation. That's a double miss in reading comprehension.

Just pointing out it's really easy to post whatever and however many you like. Did you bring it up because you just felt like making an observation out of the blue, or did you want to do it? In the former case, nobody cares. In the latter, see the example.

 

[Henning]

Just pointing out it's really easy to post whatever and however many you like. Did you bring it up because you just felt like making an observation out of the blue, or did you want to do it? In the former case, nobody cares. In the latter, see the example.

I brought it up so he would know that it wasn't something he was doing wrong or should waste time trying to figure out how to do it, that it was in fact impossible to attach multiple photos from file in iOS.

 

[timwinters]

Do ou have the phone number of the seller? Does the interior look just as nice ?

 

[Lawreston]

Tim: if I can't "source" it from my iPhone photos I'll crank up the Harley and ride out there again and get it(and get some interior photos). It's about 30 miles from here or about 15 miles away from Wiscasset Airport. Interior looked good to me.

HR

 

[timwinters]

Thanks!

Mamma might kill me but that looks like a fun ride to own for the price.

Anyone here know of any reason why it wouldn't be?

(Oh...and the road trip to get it would be even more fun!)

 

[LDJones]

I guess someone forgot to tell my iOS device about Henning's made up rule.

Try upload three images from your camera roll via a browser. Frustrating limitation. I think iOS just serves up the same image name so you end up with the last one you tried.

 

[Lawreston]

Do ou have the phone number of the seller? Does the interior look just as nice ?

I have name, tel. #, and more pictures(LARGE). Email or IM me your email address and as soon as I get them downloaded I'll send all to you. There's even the Factory Service Manual in the trunk.

HR If you come east my guest room is OPEN.

 

[timwinters]

Cool!

PM on the way, thanks.