Guest zrt1000 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 48 Buick Roadmaster in decent shape, straight 8, Car is solid for the most part. Hood is missing, no spark plugs in motor so it has been open to the weather .. NO TITLE .. $1500 obo .. located in East Stroudsburg pa... zrt800@ptd.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ewing Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 need more info and pictures help4 dr; 2 dr, convert?if you post the data plate info potential buyers can identify model, as hood sizes differ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zrt1000 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) It is hard top 4dr... Where is the data plate? .. Send your email for pictures.. Thanks Bill Edited May 22, 2012 by zrt1000 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithbrother Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 They didn't make HARD TOPS IN 48, you must mean it has a HARD TOP, so it's not a vert?I wish you well,Dale in Indy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zrt1000 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 The top is a hard top, As in made of metal and does not come off.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-g-g0 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 A Hard Top is a 2 door car that does not have a divider/post between the door and rear seat glass. It appears that your car is a sedan. The data plate should be on the passenger side of the firewall just below the hood. Pictures always help on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I'm sure Zert meant "sedan" but it got me to thinking - what would a postwar senior Buick look like as a 4-door hardtop? How about a 4-door convertible? Someday I'll get me a copy of Photoshop but then I'll never leave this keyboard. Better wait until I'm retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ewing Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I wonder if anybody ever took a late 40's convert and grafted a hardtop to it, that could look good..... maybe??Apoligies , we have drifted off the for sale topic, ....On second thought ,I think thats what they did with the 53 Skylark...ht version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zrt1000 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Here is a picture... I have more to email Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zrt1000 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 try this again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithbrother Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I wouldn't go so far as to make a HARDTOP out of my Limited, but I have been playing with an extra door that I have, to PULL THE WINDOWS OUT FLUSH WITH THE BODY. Easy to do if you don't want them to move up & down, but I would want at least the main door glass to move. Flush windows would really smooth out the look, and cut wind noise, I THINK.......Dale in Indy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I wonder if anybody ever took a late 40's convert and grafted a hardtop to it, that could look good..... maybe??You mean like this?That's exactly what the '49 Riviera/Coupe DeVille/Holiday were. Some of the best-looking closed cars ever, in my opinion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithbrother Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Amen to that statement Matt,Dale in Indy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zrt1000 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Its still available .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob McDonald Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Sorry ZERT, off topic again, but it is keeping your post current.There was nothing new under the '55 Buick sun... Here's a 1950 Kaiser Virginian 4-door hardtop. Really more of a convertible sedan that doesn't convert. I'd forgotten about these beauties and an old friend even had one. Seems to me the little mid-windows lift out and stow away for that wide open flow-through look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Cocuzza Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Rob,The little "mid-windows" did not slip out and stow away. They were attached there, and took the place of the top half of the door pillars, to add rigidness/stiffness to the frame as these cars were built from a 4-door sedan with the roof cut off. The reason they used windows was to give the car a "hardtop" feel. So the extra frame strength came from the door pillars and those windows.How do I know this - I was after a 1949 Frazer 4-door Convertible, for 25 years, from an older woman I knew and that had the same windows. Plus, I have the Kaiser-Frazer book that explains it all.Sad end to the story - I never got the car.....Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zrt1000 Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 I am Open to offers ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zrt1000 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Still have it, anybody need parts ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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