The Buick E-Job

[MrEarl]

I’ve followed Cody on Instagram for years and now Facebook. The guy works magic on metal! 
 

https://inthegaragemedia.com/how-to-section-a-1949-buick/?fbclid=IwAR3DNR7TfNBoICV_LHK35K6_Y-CIb3eaZw7moocr6Cu80ljy3Gb616oexZ0&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

 

 

 

https://inthegaragemedia.com/custom-delegance-at-sacramento-autorama-goes-to-49-buick/?fbclid=IwAR3ut3OMX876qbHH44hSV8E-HF2IPGZYirwQmingNxQazU3zOJ4GBNML3pQ&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#:~:text=Cody Walls Takes Home The,The 72nd Annual Sacramento Autorama

Edited December 27, 2023 by MrEarl (see edit history)

[Dave Gelinas (XP-300)]

A work of art for sure.

 

[NTX5467]

Section?  Carefully, gently, and with respect.

 

Car looks great.

[MrEarl]

Another win for Cody and this awesome Buick

 

https://www.motortrend.com/features/2023-sacramento-autorama-custom-delegance/?fbclid=IwAR19fXj0FpFqHWLQtIqRtUhkCSjVxgjGM6Da3JNJJyOPFGeq9SiSO1_fEcY

 

 

When Cody and Erin Lynn bought the Buick, it was in stock condition. That's how they drove it before getting the bug to build it into a mild custom. As often happens, plans and progress escalated, and the goal became to create a custom the way GM might have built a concept car in 1949. Classic custom style elements are seen in the 1-inch top-chop and 2-inch section, pancaked top, reshaped quarter-panels, and reshaped quarters. Headlights seem to be missing; in reality, projector headlights are hidden behind the grille.

 

 

[NTX5467]

In many respects, Buicks of that general school of styling were ICONIC in that they alluded to a future world where planet-to-planet  travel was done by space rockets and cars were for speedy ground transportation.  The Sedanette body exemplifies that orientation.  That car would have looked perfectly at home in the major comic books or movies of the time as the cars the "good guys and ladies" drove.  The HEROES and HEROINES of the story!  Getting them to the location of the Evil Emperor just in time, before he pushes the button to destroy Earth, or similar.  Valve-In-Head Buick power saving the day, once again!  Rather than "flathead power" of the stodgier Cadillacs or Chryslers of that time.

 

(Back to normal times . . .)

 

I know the car is not designed to be a street car as we now know them, but is the car sitting on an air suspension, which will rise so the front wheels can turn sideways to turn corners?

 

Headlight location?  Behind the grille, somewhere?

 

Why does that air cleaner look like it started life as a '65 Chrysler air cleaner, onto which they grafted a pair of longer Buick snorkels onto it?  1965 Chrysler being operative as the base plate would have the correct-sized hole in the baseplate for the earlier Carter AFB carb on the engine?

 

Thanks for posting this beautiful Buick as it won its award!

 

NTX5467

[MrEarl]

Fantastic video, lots of details revealed that I had not been aware of. Hope to see this car in person someday