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Hi Phil, I look forward to meeting you there. Regarding the Gilmore Car Museum, my flights are booked & paid for so I'm afraid not. I will be going to the Nethercutt Museum when I arrive in LA at the end of my road trip. I expect that to be very special. Previously I've been to the Henry Ford Museum once and Petersen Automotive Museum twice so I can't complain. You can't do everything and I consider myself very fortunate to have seen what I have previously. I hope I can find you at the Nats. My email is zipcruise@tpg.com.au. I will have a different mobile (cell) number upon landing in the USA so cannot provide.

I'm very much looking forward to meeting you both Ken.

I would love to meet you & Melanie and see your 1941 Limited Matt. Looking forward to being there even more now!

Hi Neil, many thanks for your kind offer. I would also love to meet you and see your '41. I certainly am traveling through the SF area on my road trip. I will send you a personal message now.

Do it. I would imagine it to be a very good event with the larger population concentration nearer the East coast.

Hi all from Australia, I'm attending the BCA National Meet in Strongsville Ohio July 10-13 and am wondering how many of you might be also attending. My buddy & I were a little too late to book into the host hotel so have found a place 5 miles north and will commute in our hire car. On Monday after the event the event, my mate (buddy) and I will visit the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn Indiana, return to Cleveland, sleep the night and then part company. I will then fly to Seattle on the West Coast and do a solo 1,400 mile road trip down to Los Angeles visiting mostly 1941 Buick owners (I own 2) I've met over social media plus a couple of long-term car friends. I will be away from home (plus my wife & dog) for nearly a month. It will be my 6th time to mainland USA. I can't wait!

Very nice Adam! I have a friend with a 1918 Buick Roadster and is finishing of his 1910 Roadster at the moment. In speaking with him, I can see that these early cars are a "different beast" indeed. I hope you have much enjoyment from the car. PS: your Pierce-Arrow looks magnificent.

You will have to come down to see for yourself! 😂

There were only 508 of the 1941 71Cs produced (according to Matt Harwood's literature).

Is this car Richard Mann's 56C (Santa Barbara, CA)?

I assume you can tell from the above answers that the simplest way is the hood vents. 4 for the small engine cars (Specials & Supers), 5 vents for the big engine cars (Century, Roadmaster & Limited).

Hi Neil, of course you are correct, sorry. I got myself confused. I now realise that the 56C & 76C both would be identical from the windscreen back. Sorry, I'm a slow learner!😩 An extra question. Would it be fair to say that to compare a 1941 model 44 (A-body - as in my Series-A Special Business Coupe), with a 1941 76S (C-body Roadmaster Sport Coupe), there would be no 2 panels on the car that are the same, also the chassis, engine & transmission are also different, even though they are both 1941 Buicks? If so I find this astounding!

As I have only owned Buicks for a mere 5 years, I'm still trying to work out the differences between both B & C-Bodied cars. I have & drive a 1941 Series-A Special Business Coupe, and I've learnt that this uses the same Fisher body as the 1941 Chevy. But now that I own (and am restoring) a 1941 Roadmaster 76C, I'm trying to find out what are the differences in the bodies of say a 56S & a 76S. Apart from the longer chassis & front sheet metal (due to the small & large engine series used), are the bodies (windscreen to rear of car) different in any way? I assume they must be or there wouldn't be both a B-body & a C-body. The image below is the best information I have found so far but still doesn't seem to answer my specific question regarding the B-body & C-body differences.

Was there an explosion in a shaving foam factory? What is that white stuff? I live in Adelaide, South Australia where we get Mediterranean weather (think California). I often take my '41 Buick out for a cruise mid-Winter as we often get dry days. Adelaide's average maximum temperature is around 15 °C (59 °F) and the average minimum around 8 °C (46°F). Note though that the mercury rarely drops below freezing or rises above 19 °C (66 °F). Frosts are common in the valleys of the Adelaide Hills, but rare elsewhere. Are you feeling sorry for me yet? Oh I forgot, we are now heading in Summer.

Hi Ken, for what it's worth, my oil filler plug on the differential housing cover is at the 6.00 position.