last weekend i went over to my buddy Doms house and helped him finish putting his 57 century back together after finally getting a new master cylinder in it. this is the first time she has been out of the garage in 2 years. He has 2 of them...this is the one that runs. the other is a "full power options car" but is in rough shape. seems like she has a vacuum leak (that would be the hiss). it has the dynaflow automatic transmission. I never knew that those trannies had no gears! guess it was an early cvt. http://s335.photobucket.com/albums/m454/a1awind/?action=view¤t=video-2011-07-03-21-14-40.mp4
Whoa! That thing is gorgeous! I'd love to have a '57 Buick Caballero wagon. Perfect lines; sporty, graceful and elegant.
A very nice Buick, definitely. He should find an old timey drive in and take a picture of it in front of it. Bet it rides nice.
Yes, I really would rather have a Buick..........1957 was a great looking Buick. Had many of those Dynaflush trannys. Drove many from late 40's models thru mid 50's Buicks because I got them for $100 and drove them till they quit. Junked them for $100 and bought another. They were 10-20 year old cars then. Life was good.
That is sharp. Early 70's something happened to my Dad's 70 Cougar and it had to stay at the mechanics for the weekend, so they gave Dad one of there loaner cars and it was a 4 door 57 Buick like this one but not 2 toned, it was a teal'ish colour inside and out. That thing was cool to have in the drive way even though for only a weekend.
Bufords I bought an Illinois 1957 Buick 2-dr HT from my boss in the 70's for around $100. Used lots of salt back then on roads. Rear quarters were gone and it looked like a 4-dr HT without rear doors. Ran great and made good work car. Almost all old Buicks I had were that ugly pea green color. Well two-toned if you count the brown rust. -Remember those Buick horizontal speedometers that looked like a themometer with red that creeped over to the right end? Once past 120 or so they turned on side. Then silver on back. Wonder how fast that really was? Only problem, that coil suspension would let the big Buicks float at that speed.
If you don't mind a sidebar to this thread, I ran across an interesting '57 Buick at a car show today. I didn't realize it until I just compared photos, but Buick had 2 different roof styles in '57. This car is a '57 Roadmaster 4-door hardtop - different rear doors, different back glass treatment. Also, the owner reversed the opening on the rear doors. Came out quite nice I think..... BTW Ian, I still like your buddy's better.....
