Old School Luxury - my 1952 Buick Roadmaster

[Probesport]

New here, figured I would post some of my other cars, here is my 1952 Buick Roadmaster, w/320 CID straight eight. Loaded, power steering, first production 4 barrel carb, all coil susp, etc.

Its actually undergoing the knife right now with some fresh paint, chrome smoothies, 3" wide whites and all of the other associated accoutrement.

 

[Hundred44Spokes]

Now that's beautiful. Awesome car!

 

[Garbone]

Thats a beautiful car. I love the old classic cars. From a different era, but very cool.
My father has a '56 Lincoln Premier 2 door hard top, with the 368ci engine.

 

[swdobbs]

Hey now that buick is something I didn't expect to find on this forum. Very nice!

Here is one of my other toys its a 52 pontiac (it has a long way to go but it was a cheap hardtop straight off the farm)

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[Frat-man-du]

All very cool... Thanks for sharing!

 

[ford nut]

LOL look at that old slingshot in the rafters.....whats the story on that ?
Nice 52 pontiac

 

[swdobbs]

LOL look at that old slingshot in the rafters.....whats the story on that ?
Nice 52 pontiac

Its an old dean moon setup from back in the day. The shop owner is gracious enough to cut us a deal on storing our "projects", use his lift, tools etc. We help each other out, just to get out of the house and get our hands dirty.

Here is a couple other pics, the first one is a rare moment when we were swapping some of the projects to different bays (trying to find some working room), the others are misc projects, I apologize if this is OT.

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[ford nut]

Cool pics,
I love the history nothing like old dean moon "Old moon eyes "
I like the old skol stuff you cant beat it
Its were hotrodding car building car racing came from.
Enjoy my 35...my dad he built it in his late 60-early 70ish years "rest his soul" God I miss that old man

This is what is was at the start I thought he was crazy for starting it at such a old age.

 

[swdobbs]

fordnut,

I tried to send you a pm but I must not have permission yet.

Have you heard of the Jalopy Journal? A very good source for traditional rod/custom info.

s.

 

[Probesport]

I forgot all about this thread - nice pics of the 35.

Here are some updates of that same Buick and recent work that has been done

Finished the 12v conversion & replaced all wiring, installed door poppers w/remote, converted to disc brakes, painted engine bay & firewall black, and probably a ton more that I forgot about.

 

[ground_zero298]

Nice job, the car looks great. Whose got the belly racer in those pics of the shop?

 

[ford nut]

fordnut,

I tried to send you a pm but I must not have permission yet.

Have you heard of the Jalopy Journal? A very good source for traditional rod/custom info.

s.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/
looks cool I will check it out

I forgot all about this thread - nice pics of the 35.

Thanks

Finished the 12v conversion & replaced all wiring, installed door poppers w/remote, converted to disc brakes, painted engine bay & firewall black, and probably a ton more that I forgot about.

Thats one nice 1952 Buick

 

[swdobbs]

Whose got the belly racer in those pics of the shop?

The shop owner has the black and white beast

The shop owners dad has a couple, the latest is just barely visible between my pontiac and the bonneville bus

This one is from back in the day (bonneville early 60's and a better recent pic)

s.

 

[2002WRXSTi]

Some nice stuff you just don't see anymore
A guy that was a Bonneville Salt racer bought my mothers house cause it had a huge almost 6 car garage. Unfortunately his father closed down the machine shop he worked at and he sold off all his race cars

House is no up for sale again cause it was a 1 bathroom house and I think his family is growing?

Other than that I worked for a used car dealership that was way big into Pontaics and Buicks of old.
Tried to get my father to pick this rare car up but he had already picked up a old SL.

This guy had an original Hudson Hollywood

Tons of Metro's...

And stuff from his front garage..

and EVERYTHING was for sale