Benjiwah

That is a gorgeous car Mike. It reminds me of a concept car that they did from a few years ago. Pre-bankruptcy, I believe. I don't remember what it was called.

843de

That would have been the Buick Blackhawk from 2000, it was sold at auction by GM to raise funds at the height of the bankruptcy.



Cost 1 million to build, hammered at $475,000.

Blue Beast (aka Boydie)

In a trip to the Sloan Museum in Flint, Michigan you would see many of Buick's experimental autos.

You just missed Sloan's old car show. Buick lovers (or any car lover should put this on their vacation schedule for future as they have all makes of cars. http://www.sloanautofair.com/

As usual people with engineering skills and inventors like David Dunbar Buick had no business acumen and most didn't care. Nicolai Tesla is another great inventor who died penniless. His AC won out over Edison's DC for most wiring applications but Edison's business smarts were phenomenal.

Boydie

843de

Edison also surrounded himself with minions, the lab at Menlo Park was the first "Think Tank", and Edison took credit for everything that went out the door.

Tesla like Buick, was a mercurial genius, but his self promoted ideas were usually flights of fancy, the real practical innovations like Alternating Current tended to be left in the background.

The Sloan Museum is fantastic, you're so lucky to have it close by Boydie.

Benjiwah

Oh yes....the Blackhawk is exactly the one I thinking of. And Tesla definitely was never given the credit he so deserved.

Blue Beast (aka Boydie)

1954 Buick Skylark one-off Experimental car - Usually at Sloan.

Boydie

843de

That's a sharp car in person Boydie, sadly there's more metal in the tail fins than most new cars these days.

Here's one that you'll remember too Boydie, the 1951 Motorama Buick XP-300 dream car.

Blue Beast (aka Boydie)

Thanks, That is a sharp picture. I have seen most of these at Sloan at one time or another. These Buicks used to travel the country and rest at other auto museums. All are not always at Sloan at the same time.

I think the 1954 Skylark was custom made from a Production '54 convertible.

The '51 -- I don't know. Looks like it was built from scratch.

Boydie

Radco

On Topic Ben hows your ride coming along! If I had classic car pic I would have hijacked the thread as well lol

843de

The last I heard from Ben, he's making more progress with his build, but I think he's waiting to post up some pics that show the more dramatic changes...instead of giving us a piecemeal pic here and there.

By finding pics of some cool Buick cars from the era that Ben is trying to emulate, I'm just trying to show him some cars he might get some ideas from, and I'm sure that goes for Boydie too.