4380 miles roundtour in Buick 40-56 s

Some days ago my family and I returned from a tour from Stockholm to Italy and back in our 1940 Buick. In Italy we rented a house for two weeks and every day we made sighseeing tours to different towns and villages in Tucany and Umbria. Unfortunately my odometer didn't work byt from the map I calculated that we must have traveld more than 3800 miles.

The 1940 Buick 56s is a fantastic car with good suspension, confotable and fast. I have a 3.9 differential, 263 ci engine and we could run on the Autoban in 120 km/h (75 miles/h) for hours, the engine silently spinning like a kitten. The problem is that the car is thirsty. I wish I had a 3.3 rear gears. The engine took 5 l oil on the trip which I think is normal for the car. The engine is very quite but the air noise is high when driving fast. The speed is korrect measured with the GPS system. I tried her up to 140 km/h (87 m/h) once, and it still run without vibations.

Running through Germany we saw three accidents. My oldest daughter drove in another car and they were very close to collide with a car with a driver that had fallen asleep, 130 km/h (81 Mie/h)

I am concidering writen a report with photos in a .rtf file, if there will be any interest "over there" for it.

Regards to all

Jan

I for one would love to read and see pictures of your trip. I always enjoy your posts telling about your travels. And I haven't forgotten your offer for a tour of Sweden some day. Look forward to the report.

and glad everyone returned home safe and sound

This sounds like a great article for the BCA Buick Bugle. I'm sure all BCA members would like to read about that trip.

Add my name to those wanting to read about the trip. I'd be especially interested in how much fuel costs in the various countries you toured through.

JD