[Harry HT]

Hi,
Just wonder what can be find out from this badge ???
A picture of chassis badge is not so good but number is 2846361.
Engine is 3004961.

-Harry-

[DaveCorbin]

Dear Harry:
The numbers you give are indeed for a 1936 Buick. The engine was built probably in mid-late September 1935 and the car was assembled either in very late October or very early November 1935, both at Flint.
Are you overseas, possibly in Europe? The stamped "IN" numbers on the plate look very much different from our USA numbers which are stamped "OUT". The tag looks like body plates from the Amsterdam GM plant. If so, the car left Flint at the time I showed above, but would have been assembled in Amsterdam around Jan. 1936.
Regards, Dave Corbin

[Harry HT]

Sir, You're absolutely right ! Again. :-)

There is an other tag with this one from General Motors Continental S.A. Antwerp.
With that my query would be too easy ;-)
Anything about trim or paint code ? Are those totally different than USA cars ?
Also wonder how "ready" those car where when they made shipping to overseas ?
There was some parts still missing ?
In my car, which is by the way 90 Series Limo, (or what is left of it) is km/h speedometer.
Thats the only thing what i have found to be different than with USA cars.
Thanks,
-Harry-

[DaveCorbin]

Dear Harry:
Easy answer first: The codes are completely different between the USA cars and the cars assempled at Antwerp. That's because the costs are quite different and the European cars have things like paint, tires, glass, interior materials furnished there.
As to the status of the car when it left Flint, it's completely disassembled and in big boxes. Buick would usually pack in groups of 6 cars, and it's "Here's your pieces, here's the instructions, and here's your jigsaw puzzles in boxes!"
I note I said "Amsterdam" in my first post, when I should have said "Antwerp".
Regards, Dave Corbin

[1939_buick]

Another post by Harry HT 1936 Rear axle

JThank You very much! Your information is very valuable and helpful to me when i'm going to see that axle "candidate".
And i understand know that i know it when i see it. It is actually BIGGER than other models rear end.
Mine is (or what is left of it) Model 90L ; Eight Passenger Sedan Limousine. With that glass behind front seat.

An impressive car. Any photo's

[Harry HT]

Dave,
Thank you very much for your information. It's quite hard to find somebody from europe who knows even some of these things like you do. What i have found out my car was exactly like this 1936 Buick Model 90L For Sale: For Sale: Antique and Classic Cars except no radio in trunk. Black leather on seat and doors in front compartment. Behind the glass in rear compartment light tan cloth. 7.50 x 16'' 6-ply heavy duty Goodyear tyres (in this case a couple times recovered already :-) ). Will check that glass thing if there is still some manufacturers prints left.
Thanks.

Allan,
Yep ! Thats my old post. 2 years ago i heard a lot of sayings like "You never gonna find any parts for that one". :-).
But now i have that rear axle. It was correct one. Got that about 6 month ago. Just working with pinion shaft now. Everything else like new bearings, gaskets, seals etc. i already have. Whole rear + torque tube is sandplasted and covered with epoxy primer. And when i have that shaft done i just will put everything back to getter again. I will work with chassis first. Have to have something solid under that old Fisher body. Thats the only right way to do it. Some woodcrafting and some metal work but nothing too difficult. Ou no ! It's not gonna be hot rod. With 138'' wheelbase ... Never ;-). As original as i just can get. I Have done a few cars before this one. Only problem is that there is no other vehicle like this around here where i could see how everything should be. Just a lot of searching through internet. If somebody have some pictures or same kind of vehicle or so. And same thing with most of parts what i miss. Markets are in USA. Not this side of the grand pond where i'm. And by the way ; Sorry about my english. It's not my native language as you may guess already ;-). It's just mostly everything what i have learned from Bruce Willis movies ... :-o.
Here is some pictures about that day when i got it home 2 years ago.

-Harry-

[1939_buick]

Originally Posted by Harry HT

... Not this side of the grand pond where i'm. And by the way ; Sorry about my english. It's not my native language as you may guess already ;-). It's just mostly everything what i have learned from Bruce Willis movies ... :-o.

Where do you live (if you want to tell us) ?
Looks a big task to restore. But they all look like that when disasembled

[Harry HT]

In Finland

60º 58' 41.41''N
25º 35' 43.32''E

-Harry-

[DaveCorbin]

Dear Harry:
There's plenty of folks here on this website willing to help you. You will be surprised by how much they know about Buicks and how much information is in their personal libraries of parts books, service manuals, and other literature. For example, my personal library includes more than 80 literature items just for 1939 Buick Roadmasters (I have one of them.) It also includes about 50 items relating to the 1938 self-shifter cars (I own one of those also.).
I'm just the serial number nut in our bunch. As I was working on compiling that information, I got inquiries like yours from overseas. When I looked in Buick's monthly records, I observed these patterns of production where everything was in multiples of 6 in export cars with the exception of the last shipment in the year. Since I had been involved with what we called "Pick & Pack" (export trucks) at International Harvester in the 1960's, it was pretty obvious that what went on at Buick was just about like the way IH did trucks. Pictures in "70 Years of Buick" by George Damman and "The Buick" by Terry Dunham and Larry Gustin just confirmed the way Buick did things.
Regards, Dave Corbin
PS: You're not the furthest north Buick guy, as I have corresponded with a man in Trondheim, Norway, and another in St. Petersburg, Russia. East of you quite a ways is a man in Uzbekistan who's working with a 1938 90 series Buick