Old Buick

http://ocala.craigslist.org/cto/4585665084.html

Pics look like 2 different cars. Or, different stage of restoration.

 

Same wagon but two different cities and states. If you notice in the first photo around the doors it is painted the new color. probably the jambs ahead of time. But it is parked near the same carport likely near Sevierville, Tenn.

 

I think my freinds father had a sedan version of this. All I can remember as a kid was driving down pitch-black country roads with the occasional glow from his father toking on his cigar (king Edward imperial) and the sound of a very large clock ticking in the dashboard.

Between the smell of the King Edward and the monotonous ticking of that clock, us kids would be asleep in no time.

It could have been the 56 Oldsmobile holiday that had the super loud clock. He had both of those at the same time. To me, as a little kid, they looked pretty much the same. And, I remember liking them both. A few years later when we were teenagers and they were both out to pasture in the woods, we would get them running just good enough to bomb around a homemade racetrack we made.

Thinking back, we're lucky we didn't get killed - stone walls - trees- what else?

I know we wrecked quite a few cars that would be nice to have now.

 

When I was much younger I had many of those old Buicks from 1949 to 1956. My 1956 was an Illinois 2-door hardtop. But when I got it there was an opening between the door and rear wheel big enough for another door. That old Buick ran so well the horizontal speedo would roll on it's side then flip backward.
Yes, how did we keep from getting killed?

 

I like the sign in the back window.