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Yup! It’s not my daily driver anymore apart from when my daily needs work, but I do still have it.

@@TroySherknice, i bought a sedan version of this last summer and have been using it as my daily driver.

Inline 8. As far as I know, there were never any cars produced with an inline 7. They only really show up in certain ships and maybe some industrial things.

I agree. I've learned a bit in the 7 years between then and now. But one thing to note is that the starter engages after very little pedal travel. You'd have to pump it with the ignition off, or as I did here, while the starter's already cranking (you can see my knee move as I pumped it right before it took off).

70+ mph is certainly achievable, but you probably wouldn’t want to do it for long durations. I’ve had it on the highway for short runs of like 15 minutes at 60-65 mph, and I think the fastest I’ve driven it in a short burst is around 80. It handled all these situations just fine, but I don’t think I’d want to drive it above 55 or 60 for hours at a time.

The GoPro distorts the view. I assure you, though it is not a perfect stop, it is much less "running the stop sign" than it looks.

I'm jealous! Love the Buick wagons of the early '50s, late '40s. The video was filmed in northern Indiana. Not usually a classically "pretty" area, but it does have its moments.

@@TroySherk yeah, I had a 40 Buick woodie for 30 years, had to give it up, and several others, too but my '52's a keeper!

How? They are unspeakably ugly, they ride like trucks, they are really cramped inside, many have so much road noise that they sound like they have bad wheel bearings, and they are too low. You can't see and you can't where your hat if you are tall. I don't like them at all.

The launch and first gear change or two were pretty thrilling from the passenger seat of the Duesenberg, even if the ultimate speed was that impressive, haha.

That's a good question. I think it's a vacuum activated switch on the carb, so it only activates when the engine is not running. The switch engages with very little throttle input (and you can activate it by pulling the throttle back with your hand in the engine bay too).

There is a relay in the starting circuit that prevents the starter from getting current when the generator in spinning.

@@michaelbenardo5695 Thank you. Always wondered.

Yeah, it does need aligned. And someone else beat you to the comment about pumping the gas too, haha. In the past, it didn't require that if I ran it just the day before, but this time it was more stubborn. I pumped it once or twice right before it started it (with the starter engaged). No power steering on this car. I just usually wait until it's rolling a bit before I try to crank the wheel so I don't have to work it so hard.

@@TroySherk thank you Troy. Glad to meet another old buick driver. These cars no worse to drive as they were 60. Years ago. Daily drivers to me, much to the chagrin of the socialist state of califonia. To the credit of calif, do not half to retrofit my prewar iron to turn signals , dual wipers or stop lites.

I've never really given it any thought other than that I wouldn't want to put more load on the electrical system than necessary when starting. What happens if you do? (Note that I turned the radio on after starting, not before, not that I think that's what you were saying anyway).

@@TroySherk , Buick recommends radio be turned off when cranking engine. I failed to do that in a 53 Super i owned. It caused a voltage spike taking out the vibrator and something else in the radio, I don't remember what that was. I never made that mistake again.

@@TroySherk The radio draws a lot of power and will drain the battery to where the car won't crank in a fairly short time (like 10 or 20 minutes) if the original tube radio --but those radios sound better than transistor AM radios and I believe "better" cars like the Buick had more tubes in their radio than cheap cars like the Chevrolet--also those cars could "hear" distant and weak stations that your typical table radio model couldn't get

@@steveashcraft718 Something to do with a sticky relay in the voltage regulator? (Old cars with generators have complex non-solid state voltage regulators with I believe 3 mechanical relays,I believe a completely stuck relay in the regulator can burn out your generator while the car is parked or even start an underhood fire

@@davidpowell3347 , not really. While a stuck voltage regulator can do what you have stated starting the car with the radio on causes a voltage spike for whatever reason.

It's been a working car for almost 70 years now, and has never been treated as a real classic. It was basically a "backup car" even into the 2000s. Only in the last maybe 15 years has it been treated to things like some fresh Coker whitewall tires, and stuff like that. I think that fuel filter style was basically put on there to make it easy to swap in and out with easily available parts. It was especially useful when the gas tank had a lot of rust in it that would get sucked through.

There were some freeways, in, where else, Los Angeles, and a few Turnpikes had appeared back east, but in Indiana, probably few if any

@@michaelbenardo5695 I think the Indiana toll road was completed in 1956 or 1957. They didn't mess around in those days. Today it would take six of seven years to do a 156 mile freeway (244 in Ohio) when back then they did it in three.

Really that engine sounds like a six

Yeah basically a poor mans cadillac. Lol

Buick recommended that only straight through mufflers ("glasspacks") be used. That was what original equipment was if I remember from my grandfather's owner's manual. Pontiac also with its Straight Eight used factory glasspack if I remember. These were larger longer fatter glasspack mufflers than the kid's stuff aftermarket "bombs" so were not as loud as those but were louder than the common "reverse flow" muffler.

" somewhat sluggish" was an accurate description of all cars equipped with auto trans in the 50's. CN YOU SAY PNUT BUTTER DRIVE? Course U can. Simple 3 on the tree would outperform any of them with the average ignorant driver. Like maybe my or yer mom. Next she'll want power steering or something like that!

@@brdwonder 1950 Pontiac had a true Hydramatic 4 speed option that was slower than the 3 speed gearshift/clutch transmission (upshifted too early) but it would walk away from this Dynaflo at least up to about 40 mph. or so--Pontiac shared these with Oldsmobile and Cadillac ! unless "emergency low gear" was engaged and then shifted into Drive once the car(Buick Dynaflo) got up to about 40 but doing that more than few times and you would probably be needing a trans rebuild !

@@brdwonderthey called it “Dynaslush” for a reason. 🤣

Was barely moving (GoPro adds sensation of speed) and had someone in a hurry behind me who came speeding up behind me after turning a corner while I was backing out of the garage. Sorry, officer.