George Cole Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Taken on Saturday at the Palm Beach Concours Le Grande Tour. The 3 of us toured by ourselves as the other 27 supercars in the group 'couldn't keep up.' 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TAKerry Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Looks like a fun day. And a nice trio of cars. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Grimy Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 @edinmass must be out of chrome polish and 0000 steel wool. That 2-31/32" bore must have been spinning up due to the 4.88 gears--he'll let us know the redline, I'm sure. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Looking at the Buick, I am enough of a stink-ka that if I owned it I would polish one headlamp, the horn under the opposite headlamp, and half of the hubcaps on the ground wheels so that when they rotated when moving they would flicker in the sunlight - blink blink blink.😊 I saw that done to an unrestored sedan of 1930 at a week long car show once. drivers door polished and waxed and the rest of the car left alone. Great original car unrestored that the owner couldn't even take the time to sit on the ground and scrape the mud out from under the fenders that it was stuck too. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Cole Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 Here's more of the tour group as they came dragging in behind us. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Kudo's to them for taking the 34 Buick out in running unrestored condition, probably drew more attention than a lot of the restored cars. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 It was a fun day…….thanks George for posting the photos. We don’t like to push the old girl too hard……had it up to 60 for a few seconds, and it seemed happy at 54-56……faster than I would have expected. She ran 135-145 all day, and oil pressure was constant at 38lbs…….l’m guessing it’s the pressure relief valve dumping the excess pressure and holding steady. When cold pressure is over 60. You want to talk about strange events…….the electric clock started working while we were driving to lunch! Go figure. I can’t keep clocks on 100 point cars working, and the old turdmobile fixes itself after sitting since 1952? It kept good time for a few hours, and then we disconnected it to prevent battery draw down. Here are a few shots I took. Somehow the Jag photos didn’t download to my photo album. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1935Packard Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmTee Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 10 hours ago, edinmass said: You want to talk about strange events…….the electric clock started working while we were driving to lunch! Go figure. That's her way of saying 'thanks'! Probably feels good to stretch her legs after that long nap. Phil looks pleased with the result! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFeeney Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Nothing like "Living the Dream" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 1 hour ago, DFeeney said: Nothing like "Living the Dream" I agree....but "Driving the dream" is good also! 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 (edited) The 1934 & 1935 Buicks were almost identical in style. After that the "Fat Fendered Cars" took over until the "Box Shape" came along, here's my 35 on Daytona Beach Edited December 16, 2023 by Paul Dobbin added location (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1912Staver Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 That is one great looking Buick ! Out on the road where it belongs ! You guys look like you are having too much fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 I keep wondering how much paint that big round sticker took off when removed. Looks like y’all had a lot of fun! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericmac Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 That is such a great car. The thought that it is out and being used brings a smile to my face! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wetherbee Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Love the look of that Buick, even more than the Packard and other cars in the lineup… awesome to see it getting exercise! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Excellent to see the Buick out and about. Definitely a handsome car. The exotics do nothing for me. I had a Lamborghini once. Every time I got out of it, I felt like I had toilet paper trailing from my shoe. 2 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Best part is we still haven't washed it yet, although it did get rained on once or twice. Ashtray is still full of 1940's cigarette butts from the last owners wife. She quit smoking in the late 40's. Just passed away last year in her 90's. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipdang Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 "Turdmobile?" 🤭 No one should polish that... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing Coyote Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 If you wash it then you will hurt your resale value. Drive it, enjoy it and add cigar ashes to the ashtray. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 It need a few empty bottles of Crown Royal Apple 🍏 on the floor, for a more authentic look. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 On 12/12/2023 at 10:13 AM, Grimy said: @edinmass must be out of chrome polish and 0000 steel wool. That 2-31/32" bore must have been spinning up due to the 4.88 gears--he'll let us know the redline, I'm sure. As I began reading this thread I was thinking just what you were about the revs it must be pulling. Somewhere amongst my files I have a bunch of info that the Buick factory sent to me in 1971, including the speed/revs graphs for all of the 1934 models. I know the Series 40 does 3200rpm at 60mph on a 4.33 rear end and 6.25 x 16 tyres. I am thinking the Series 50 on the next size bigger tyres (6.50s? - or 7.00s?) and those 4.88 gears must be doing a couple of hundred revs more. In the 1934-35 models peak power (88hp for the 50) was developed at 3200. Compare that with the series 40 - 93hp @3200 - add to that each body style weighed roughly 500lb less than the equivalent 50 - and you can see why the new 40 was regard as something of a performance car at the time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimy Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 @nzcarnerd I learned to drive on a 1934 56S sport coupe w/rumbleseat and kept it for many years. As far as I was concerned, it was a 45 mph car on a good day. I remember the charts you mention as being in the factory shop manual which went with the car when I sold it. S50 tires were 700x16. I remember 3920 lbs as the real world weight on a scale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 I think my new tires are a bit larger rolling radius....so maybe we were turning 2500? It certainly wasn't wound out.......and it wasn't protesting. Also the speedo reads 8mph slow......wondering if it had a rear end change in the past. Will have to actually pull the cover again and count the teeth. It's very comfortable at 50. I will NOT put it on an Interstate ever......it's just too dainty and the roads here are much too busy. Being able to drive it 55 without it screaming would be the perfect option. We plan on driving it to several events in the next few months that are 150 to 200 miles away. We shall see what happens. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Century Eight Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 On 12/11/2023 at 4:23 PM, Walt G said: Looking at the Buick, I am enough of a stink-ka that if I owned it I would polish one headlamp, the horn under the opposite headlamp, and half of the hubcaps on the ground wheels so that when they rotated when moving they would flicker in the sunlight - blink blink blink.😊 I saw that done to an unrestored sedan of 1930 at a week long car show once. drivers door polished and waxed and the rest of the car left alone. Great original car unrestored that the owner couldn't even take the time to sit on the ground and scrape the mud out from under the fenders that it was stuck too. Ha Ha, reminds me of the time I took Bleeche-White to just one of my father-in-laws whitewalls on his daily driver. Then he had to clean the rest of them after much protesting and fun. He failed to see the humor that day! I have threatened one of my old car friends to do the same to his Buick that needs a set of tires. But he says it’s for “go and not show”. You can still have a lot of fun in the hobby just for free 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Cole Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 27 minutes ago, edinmass said: I think my new tires are a bit larger rolling radius....so maybe we were turning 2500? It certainly wasn't wound out.......and it wasn't protesting. Also the speedo reads 8mph slow......wondering if it had a rear end change in the past. Will have to actually pull the cover again and count the teeth. It's very comfortable at 50. I will NOT put it on an Interstate ever......it's just too dainty and the roads here are much too busy. Being able to drive it 55 without it screaming would be the perfect option. We plan on driving it to several events in the next few months that are 150 to 200 miles away. We shall see what happens. My Jag speedo reads ~10% fast. Not sure why as everything appears original. Perhaps the Michelin tires are a smaller external diameter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericmac Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 20 hours ago, edinmass said: It need a few empty bottles of Crown Royal Apple 🍏 on the floor, for a more authentic look. ...or a few full bottles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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