Anthony C

Nice 53 rag top GG. The 53 Super in my post was a freak! It would smoke the rear tire so bad that he had to let off because there was too much smoke we couldn't see, and did it in Drive, not Low. It was fast for a 53 Buick with a Dynaflow transmission. Can you post any photographs of your 53?

Very nice hearing from you. Back in 1975, I met a gentleman that just bought a 1952 Buick Roadmaster sedan from the original owner. That Buick had 48,000 miles on it. He took me for a ride, and even let me drive it! It rode very different than the 48. The suspension was a little stiffer, the shocks were exactly the same. The springs were stiffer but had a very good smooth ride at the same time. Whatever Buick changed in the suspension, was in the right direction.

It would have been nice to see retirednow’s 52, 56C. I wonder if it’s still around? Another Brother had a 51 model 46R Riviera Dynaflow, it was a powder blue with a white roof. I was with him when he bought it. He paid $50.00 for it in 1958 or 59. I was very young 5 or 6 years old. We made many trips in that Buick Special to Upstate NY from the Bronx 150 miles each way. Too bad I don’t have a physical photograph of that Buick, but I have a vivid photograph of it in my head.

You are very welcome Bob. I’m glad and very surprised anyone even replied to my post. That 52 Buick Skylark would have been a real sought after Buick, being the last year for the 320 Straight Eight with 170 HP. Maybe it would have had the 322 V8 in it. I actually drove the 53 Skylark we had once, the guy my Brother bought it from put a 3 speed transmission in it. But my heart belonged to the Dynaflow in a Skylark.

This is also the.Brother‘s Buick when him and I over hauled the engine in 2018. My Brother put rod and main bearings in that engine in 1971, and they are still there doing their job! At an idle at operating temperature the oil pressure is 17 psi going down the road it’s never less than 30 psi

It has been 11 years since anyone replied to this topic. I grew up in a family that mainly had Buicks. These are personal photographs from when I was a little boy, to the two tone Grey 2Dr Sedanette Buick model 76SI had for 39 years. The last photograph I took last April of my Brothers 1948 Buick model 71 he bought in 1960 in Marlboro, NY out of a junkyard for $40.00. I replaced seals at the rear of the Dynaflow transmission. My. Brother owns this Buick for 62 years. I drove the heck out of it before I left Florida last April. There was even a 1953 Buick Skylark in the family until a nephew rolled it over several times and crushed it with a bulldozer! I was sick!