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Cuban car lovers (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
"Buick SPECIAL prices start just a few dollars over America's lowest. There the similarity ends." Massive and elegant, the 1955 Buicks were undeniably masterpieces of Harley Earls GM styling studios. The Special as the lowest-in-line was no exception with its 122 inch wheelbase and 188 hp of thrust. Based on GM's B-body, the 1955 models were a further refinement of the 1954 design . Customers liked...
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Scrivener's Error (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
It's definitely still winter around here, influenza and all. Bleah. Herewith, therefore, a Bought the Buick special edition of the Monday Miscellany. Joanne Rowling is finally speaking out on her lawsuit seeking to halt a fan-created "lexicon" on Harry Potter. Rowling said she was especially irked that the site's owner and the lexicon's would-be publisher, RDR Books, continued to insist that
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
We've already seen the ad for the '73 Riviera , so now it's time to take a look at the car itself. I'm trying to get caught up on Buicks, since we've only had four of them prior to today, with the most recent one just a few weeks back. This Buick is special, since its daring "boat-tail" styling was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise gloomy Early Malaise Era year for Detroit. This is the kind...
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Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
We’ve already seen the ad for the ‘73 Riviera, so now it's time to take a look at the car itself. I’m trying to get caught up on Buicks, since we’ve only had four of them prior to today, with the most recent one just a few weeks back. This Buick is special, since its [...]
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http://www.8lights.com/rss/news.php (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
Woods and Mickelson set for Buick special
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The PGA Tour season ratchets up several notches at this week's Buick Invitational where world numbers one and two Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are scheduled to make their first appearances of the year.
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The PGA Tour season ratchets up several notches at this week's Buick Invitational where world numbers one and two Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are scheduled to make their first appearances of the year.
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
The folks over at Jalopy Journal dug up a real gem the other day, the Norman Timbs Buick Special . The car was built in the late forties by the racecar designer and cost the princley sum of about $10,000 to put together. The aluminum body over tube frame stretches out to 17.5′ long (same as my Lincoln) with a 117″ wheelbase and a track of 56″. The luggage compartment is up front, engine behind the...
