A nice tight curved gray headliner is above all this luxury.Ī 248ci Inline 8-cylinder, original to the car, and restored, sits neatly in a clean engine bay. Seen below is an aftermarket CD player, and an original Buick heater box. It is bejeweled with a bevy of round gauges, a center radio and button cluster all in nice chrome. Nice clean gray carpet covers the floors, and a dark gray metal dash floats above in front. This theme continues on the rear bench, which is much like an overstuffed couch, complete with arm rests on either side. Turning our attention to the seats, we see a split front bench covered with gray broadcloth, and it is embellished with dark gray and white stripes. Wide whites wrap chrome rimmed dog dish style BUICK badged wheel covers all around.Ī nice gray broadcloth covers the door panels and is just a little loose showing some minor wrinkles. Bringing up the rear is the “jet back” with curved rear wrap around glass, and a nice bumper below dual oval taillights within the rounded rear quarters. Large steel doors with a fender line bump continuing from front to rear on this car that has no trim spears to be seen. As we move up to the bulbous hood it has the trio of vent ports now more oval than circular as in previous models. A massive lower bumper with dual signal lights hangs below and completes the “smile”. A nice chrome trim piece curves above these vertical pieces and is badged in black Buick Eight copperplate script. Gorgeous chrome on this car throughout including the front grille which is made up of 9 individual pieces for the vertical “teeth” each one different from the other. A few minor dents and dings, along with 2 minimal patches of cracks in the paint due to rust can be seen. This car has nice paint, a snazzy interior, and runs like a champ.īathed in a beautiful Royal Maroon Metallic that is a really well done job, it has been polished to look miles deep. Also, at the time of the Special's debut, only fastbacks - or "Jet-backs," as Buick called them in 1950 were available.įor consignment a “jet back” Sedanette car with pontoon fenders big steel panels, and a grille that is worth its weight in gold. Its long-stroke, valve-in-head "Fireball" straight-eights still had plenty of appeal to the Buick crowd. Buick saw no reason (at this point) to follow Oldsmobile and Cadillac into the short-stroke V8 era.
While the 1950 Buick's styling curves were as modern as Jane Russell's latest gown, the engineering was as tried-and-true as Clark Gable's smile.