Don Tomaso Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 (edited) Hi On the body tag I have the letters K and M. Anyone that know what they mean. All the other I know what it means. My car has a manual transmission with all the right parts so i wonder if it's maybe a special order or maybe modified by the dealer? Every book says that all Roadmasters has the dynaflow transmission but not mine. Regards Thomas Edited September 29, 2016 by Don Tomaso (see edit history) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan O Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 I am not sure about the standard shift or the data plate but that'a great looking sedanette! That photo looks like somewhere in southern Sweden. Am I right? Welcome to the board. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airy Cat Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 The K and M are the paint color codes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean1997 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 The paint code is 1 for Carlsbad Black. K and M are accessory (option) codes. K = flexible steering wheel M = Dynaflow trans 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Tomaso Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 7 hours ago, Dan O said: I am not sure about the standard shift or the data plate but that'a great looking sedanette! That photo looks like somewhere in southern Sweden. Am I right? Welcome to the board. Thank's, You are right, I live in the south of Sweden about 40 Km southwest of the city Växjö. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Tomaso Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 1 hour ago, sean1997 said: The paint code is 1 for Carlsbad Black. K and M are accessory (option) codes. K = flexible steering wheel M = Dynaflow trans Thank you, then my car must have been built with dynaflow and then converted to manual. (maybe by the dealer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 14 hours ago, Dan O said: That photo looks like somewhere in southern Sweden. Am I right? Not to get off topic, but what the heck in that photo says southern Sweden? Or even Sweden for that matter? Looks like Madison county , Georgia to me Nice '49 indeed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan O Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 50 minutes ago, MrEarl said: Not to get off topic, but what the heck in that photo says southern Sweden? Or even Sweden for that matter? Looks like Madison county , Georgia to me Mr. Earl - Ha, visit and you'll know. It's that particular shade of yellow and barn-red they use plus the roofing materials and vertical planks and skinny windows on the house. No barbed-wire, clean as a whistle. Plus those damned clouds and flat terrain. AND they have a LOT of old American iron cruising around. Don Tomaso - I'll be in Nybro an hour and a half to the east of you next summer. Perhaps we could meet at a carshow somewhere! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Cool, quite an eye for detail. I know they love our old iron, we had a Swede as a guest last fall and helped him load 3 containers with 8 old Buicks and Cadillacs. He also learned a lot about carpentry whilst he was here. Back to our regularly scheduled............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avgwarhawk Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 The lines on this Buick are timeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 I live in Sweden. http://www.townofsweden.org/ And have a friend in Tidaholn, Sweden who usually gets our weather about 3 days later. I have helped get 20-25 cars through the port of Gutenberg. Bernie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Wondering if that car was ordered as an "export" model (for Europe) and the conversion was done "post-production" and "pre-shipment"? I would think that doing such a conversion in Europe would require a LOT of things not normally available over there, except for another donor vehicle? Presuming it went to Europe when it was newer . . . Seems like, in later years, GM had a facility in Belgium which built some cars or possibly modified others for the European market? NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Mr.. Earl, what ever happened to that "dream" real estate deal you mentioned a few years ago? Where the entire development would be home to Buick owners/enthusiasts with "service facilities" and in-site storage facilities. Even possibly a "test and tune" roadway loop? Sounded neat back then! (If EIGHT Buicks are no longer at Buick Gardens, we've seen some "in repose", in "historic structures", how many MORE are lurking under flowers and such?). NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD1956 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Great car. I noticed there is a Dynaflow script on the side of the car. I'd bet someone dropped a reverse strut and said: the heck with this new fangled automatic thingy. Make it a stick shift! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Tomaso Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 On 2016-10-02 at 4:24 AM, NTX5467 said: Wondering if that car was ordered as an "export" model (for Europe) and the conversion was done "post-production" and "pre-shipment"? I would think that doing such a conversion in Europe would require a LOT of things not normally available over there, except for another donor vehicle? Presuming it went to Europe when it was newer . . . Seems like, in later years, GM had a facility in Belgium which built some cars or possibly modified others for the European market? NTX5467 Hi, not a europe car, imported from US this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Tomaso Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 On 2016-09-30 at 3:34 PM, Dan O said: Mr. Earl - Ha, visit and you'll know. It's that particular shade of yellow and barn-red they use plus the roofing materials and vertical planks and skinny windows on the house. No barbed-wire, clean as a whistle. Plus those damned clouds and flat terrain. AND they have a LOT of old American iron cruising around. Don Tomaso - I'll be in Nybro an hour and a half to the east of you next summer. Perhaps we could meet at a carshow somewhere! . That would be nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Tomaso Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 On 2016-10-02 at 4:46 AM, JohnD1956 said: Great car. I noticed there is a Dynaflow script on the side of the car. I'd bet someone dropped a reverse strut and said: the heck with this new fangled automatic thingy. Make it a stick shift! There is Dynaflow skript on the steringwheel and trunk lid to, so i also guess on a dealer rebuild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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