Berl79

Thanks for the welcome! Its funny that you mention a young guy driving around a 55 Chevy, my first 50s car was actually a 1956 Chevy that I drove through high school, sounds like mine was just as rough LOL. Once I get it running good my next area of attention will be brakes, I was told they were gone through roughly 8 years ago but ill still be replacing all of the rubber bits and checking the master cylinder. Thank you all for your help!

Well got back home and was messing with the car a little, still need to go pick up a new set of points but finally got spark from the distributor. Also got all 4 windows to roll down although the passenger door window doesn't want to come back up, assuming the motors need rebuilt. Not too much progress right now as another project tossed out part of a connecting rod so I have to engine swap that first before any major progress on the Buick.

I was recommended to start a build thread here, also seems like a good idea to keep track of what I am doing on this car. She's a 1955 Buick Roadmaster 76R, my first Buick but my second 1950s GM car (previously owned a 1956 Chevy 210 that I regret selling). Idles great but currently having spark and carb issues so wont stay running in drive. Rust wise its not terrible from what ive been able to see so far, front floors were repaired with fiberglass a while ago and its falling apart, and some rocker rust but the rest of the car looks pretty solid. My current biggest fear is the electrical system, haven't done wiring before and this thing has a lot of power functions in it. Sadly the thin band whitewalls are the current tires as the old WWW didn't hold air very well anymore.

Thank you all for the welcome and advice! I will undoubtably have many questions in the future.

Hi, have been a lurker for a while and decided to finally post. This is my first Buick, a 1955 Roadmaster 2 door hardtop, and will be the first car that I attempt to do a full restoration on. I am currently a full time college student so progress will be slow but I am still excited to start working on it!