Dynaflash8

Been collecting and restoring 1935-1948 Buicks for 67 years, and I do not believe the rear gravel pan was an accessory, but instead, a standard standard equipment all these Buicks. Prior to 1940 they were painted black and most were under the bumper bars. Window winders did vary, for example in 1939 the Special was all plastic knobs and the Century and above were plastic wrapped in chrome with the plastic showing in the middle

Way too much money in my opinion. To fix all of the things you can see in the pictures would cost $10-15,000 dollars and when you got done you might have a $20,000 car if the paint shines up okay. Also, it has 15-inch wheels on it, I'm sure. That was common practice in the early 1950s, but just finding the right wheels would cost you $1200-1500 and then you'd have to buy a set of 6.50x16 tires. But, all unrestored cars are way too much money. People never realize how much money they will lose when they go to sell a car they've just restored. But, if you want a nice 1940 56S then this certainly is a nice car to start on. Or, you can just drive it around to local cruise-ins if they have those where you live. The first thing a street-rodder at one of those will ask is, "When are you going to put a 350 in this thing?" That always makes you feel great....been there and done that here in Florida.

John, I'm not looking for any kind of Buick at all right now. I sold my restored 41 Roadmaster because it was too hot down here in Florida without air condition and it was hard for me to steer. It steered harder with its 15-inch tires (it seemed to me) than my '39 Special with 16-inch tires. I've had a 56 Buick that I restored, but that looked like a nice car. I bought a 71 Dodge Swinger 6 with air-condition after I sold the Roadmaster. I just felt at my age I needed a smaller car that would use less gas and had air condition. Gas here is "only" $3.09 a gallon, but by 2023 it's likely to be $6 a gallon. We also have a 1991 Buick Park Avenue with air and only 6,600 original miles that is wonderful for AACA tours, but it looks kind of new for shows. However, it is an AACA Preservation car now. Thanks for asking. Oh, I'm constantly tempted by pre-WWII Buicks and other pre-War cars, but my body is slowing down too much and my restoration buddy passed away last year. Sign of the times Pal.

I don't see a price anywhere and does the redline speedometer work?

I couldn't find this post this morning. Was it moved?

If traffic is bad here, just try anywhere within 50 miles of Orlando. We did try to find a place in or near Lake City where the climate and terrain was more like Virginia. And there is a good AACA Region club there. It's only 200 miles from our daughter, who works with old and very old people. But, just after we started looking the COVID hit. People from NY and NJ, not to mention deep south Florida started flooding to the place and prices went absolutely sky high. Houses from the 30s and 40s were built to a much lower code than up around Washington, DC at the time and are rickity now. And, everywhere you go, you have to check to see if it is in a flood zone. Houses from the mid-fifties to the 80s/90s doubled and tripled in price within 24 months and still sold like hotcakes. Also, if we did move, like back to Virginia, we'd have to get a mover who took everything down and packed it, and then put it all back together at the other end. I can't handle moving furniture and household goods anymore. We finally just gave up on the idea. We moved to Virginia in 1993 from Maryland, and now we know we should have stayed there. Those were the happiest days of our 62 years together, and I had 11 cars stalls there too, ha, only 6 here.

I find it difficult to drive each of my three cars once a month here where there is no place to go and tons of traffic to go anywhere. I'd move, but it's too expensive, too many different doctors here, and one daughter who won't move is here. I moved here because my restoration guy from Maryland days was here, but now he has passed away . No clubs here, no old cars that aren't street rodded. Take my advice if you're an old car guy, don't ever retire to south central Florida where it's over 100 miles to anyplace with old car interest or activity.

I'd been down to three old cars for around 3-4 years since we sold the 71 Riviera, sort by happenstance. That felt pretty good and gave me money to restore a 41 Buick Roadmaster. I got it all restored and suddenly realized it was too hot here in Florida most of the time to drive it anywhere and to top that there was no place to go and I was on the verge of being too old to trailer it. Finally one day not long before Hershey I decided to sell it and I did. It felt so good to be down to two old cars at first, my trust 1939 Buick Special and my 1991 Buick Park Avenue with 6,000 original miles on it. I enjoyed to two empty spaces for awhile too and no money going out the door. But, the money from the 41 Buick must have burned a hole i my pocket. I though I needed one more car with A/C and power steering because the 91 Park looks almost like a 2005 Park...great for tours, not so old looking for shows. Maybe I was selling myself a bill of goods, huh? Anyway, I kept looking at old cars, mostly 1965-1968 Chyrslers because I knew them to be good looking, good cars with A/C and power steering. I had a 66 Chrysler convertible when I first joined the AACA Board in 1995. It was a real traveler. Everything on line was crazy expensive, so on day I turned to Craigs List in Florida, so I wouldn't have to ship something here. Looking for nothing in particular other than A/C and power steering and nice, I suddenly found a 1971 Dodge Swinger.....restored, with A/C and power steering. I made an offer and it was accepted, so now I'm back to three old cars, two modern cars, a Suburban and a closed trailer, still with no place to go, at least short of 150 miles. Why did I retire to this island in the middle of nowhere, Sebring, FL? The Dodge is not my style, but I have history with a 1973 Plymouth Scamp that I bought new and drove to California with two daughters. That was before all the medicine and health support machines we have to carry now. Maybe we can drive this car to car shows in places like Melbourne and Miami now....don't know. We drove the Sububan to Hershey and sold a truckload of 1941 Buick small parts, and I'm saving it and the trailer hoping I can get the '39 Buick to Melbourne for the AACA Show in February and the Sentimental Tour in Gettysburg, PA next year. Then we'll take it to Hershey one more time before I'm 84 next October and sell it. I would have preferred a big Chrysler to the little Dodge, but at my age I think I have to worry more about the cost of gas in the next couple of years, and there is nobody around here for miles and miles who would work on a Dynaflow transmission. Everybody stay well. Getting old ain't for sissies as my late father used to say.

In the end I bought a restored, one-family owned 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger. It is very much like the 1973 Plymouth Scamp I purchased brand new. With gas going up, here, to $3.269 yesterday, I think an economical antique car is what we need to add to our 1991 Buick Park Avenue (6,000 original miles). The engine was fully rebuilt at 97,000 miles and now it has 123,000 miles on it. We sold the 1941 Buick Roadmaster that I restored between 2017 and 2019. It was too hot to ride in here in Florida, and handled heavy now that I've turned 83. Still have my high school 1939 Buick Special. It doesn't steer as hard as the Roadmaster, and seems to be cooler to ride in during the summer months. At our age my days of owning my first love (pre-war American regular cars) are, I am afraid, over.

I bought a new 1973 Plymouth Scamp with a Slant 6. Around 75,000 I had a terrible time with a sludged up engine. I had religiously used Quaker State Motor Oil. Once I got that problem straightened out, I never again in my life used Quaker State Motor Oil.

The way the trees have grown over and into those cars, I don't see how you can get anything without having a chainsaw. Wherever this is, they must have a potent growing season. I've been junkyarding all my life and I've only seen one that was equal to or worse overgrwn than this one, and that was in Clinton, Tennessee.

I sold a 1965 Chrysler Corp Parts Book to the man with the 66 Dodge, while at Hershey. I saw skirts listed in it with pictures. I rather doubt that Chrysler and Dodge skirts are interchangeable, but what do I know. I was rather unsure I wanted to pay what the asking price was, facing a $1950 cost to ship it to Florida. I threw a number out, but perhaps I angered him. He has not answered my emails since leaving Hershey. Since, I've found a very nice 1971 Dodge Dart 2dr hardtop here in Florida. It is a slant 6. I bought a Plymouth Scamp like it new in 1973 and found that to be a good car. However, that may be $2500 or so more dollars than I had hoped to spend. I'm a Buick guy, but all of those in the 60s are to costly to run, as, in fact, are those in the 70s. After 1975 I don't even like the Buicks, except for the 76-77 Century 2dr

It was a great Hershey overall. I sold a Buick just before Hershey and brought a load of extra and left over parts for it, as well as from a 64 Wildcat I sold a number of years ago. Otherwise I let loose of a few extra 39 Buick parts I could spare and a few books for the same. I found crowds slow in my part of the Chocalate field, but what Buick buyers who did come through were serious and I had a good Hershey. This is the first I've sold in many years as most years when I was on the Board there was too much work to do. One thing I saw every kind of motorized transportation drive by you could think of, including peddle bikes, Model T's, and even one large modern sedan with six guys in it. They reminded me of six Mafia guys LOL.

I am looking at a 1966 Dodge Monaco, a car I know absolutely nothing about. Is there a club specializing in mid-60s Chrysler vehicles. Also, Chrysler offered accessory factory rear fender skirts for a Monaco that year. Does anybody in the world have a pair for sale? I am well-known in Buick circles, many books, belong to all the clubs, but I like this Dodge with a 383 V8, but I always get lost with a non-Buick car. However, I did once own a wonderful 1966 Chrysler Newport, so i know they did make good cars.

I did sell the car, but through a club ad. Thank you.

I have had no luck finding anybody to install Vintage Air in anything but Fords and Chevies. I had a chance to buy a 67 Buick Skylark with a 300cid engine, no air. I called Vintage Air, no soap. I called local company that installs aftermarket air in car and they said no brackets or pulleys, no can do. I found a guy whose speciality it Buick parts in those years and he had just sold the only factory pulley's for a 300 Buick engine with air, and so far has found no more. No, I'm not interested in a 350 Chevy engine. I'm down to just two old cars now, and at 83 in October, I think I should probably leave it that way.

I had a 66 Chrysler Newport convertible and it was the best tour car I ever had. I sold it when I thought I'd worn it out, but regrettably now I think it was a bad timing chain. I search 1965-1968 Chryslers almost every day, but I can't find one, and I don't want another convertible and really only want a 383. I do not want a 440. Too much gas I think, like a big Buick with a 455.

Bob, I don't even remember that, but I think that had to be 1974, maybe 1975. Yeah, I'll turn 83 in October, and I wish it was only yesterday when I was, what? Age 36? Maybe it was my wife driving the 71 Dodge van. I remember her sliding down one of those hills, brakes locked, horn blowing. Thank God she never hit anybody. Earl

I'll have two stalls in the Hershey Flea Market. Selling only Buick parts. Have two large boxes of NOS parts for a 1964 Buick Wildcat and whatever else they fit. Have Suburban load of miscellaneous left over parts from a 1941 Buick, mostly 60-80-90 and chrome that fits all models, some exceptionally nice, a bit of NOS or reproduction. Both mechanical and dress items. It's all I can carry in the Suburban. Message me for where my booth is. Also, maybe some literature if I can get it in the Suburban. I'm packed tight.

And it fills up the trunk. I have seen a 1953 or 1954 that came to an AACA show years ago from Texas.

I really like that car, but I have to have air condition here in this hellhole Sebring, Florida. Just sold my '41 Buick Roadmaster because it is so hot here this year, and most years. I don't need the trouble, at 83, of trying to rewire to 12-volts and find pulleys to fit a car for Vintage Air.

Thanks. That is no match for the 331 Hemi I'm sure, and probably much harder to get parts for. Am I correct? I'm a lifelong Buick guy who is thinking of switch over to a 55-56 or 65-68 Chrysler. Don't know much about them, except a friend has driven a 56 DeSoto all over the USA to AACA and CHVA tours. I like the 55 the best, but it is 6-volt and I need AC. Had a 66 Newport that I drove all over the USA to AACA tours 20 years ago. The 60s Buicks have never worked out to replace it, and 30s and 40s are too hot in Florida.

I'm a member of facebook, alas, but I don't know how to access old cars for sale. Yes, a lot of money for a non-runner and not enough pictures. I think that air conditioner is in the trunk, taking lots of space.

Did Chrysler offer a "non Hemi" in 1955? That's a new one on me. Who has the answer?