Old School Luxury - my 1952 Buick Roadmaster

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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.

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

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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Cool pics,
I love the history nothing like old dean moon "Old moon eyes " :cool:
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 :(
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This is what is was at the start I thought he was crazy for starting it at such a old age.

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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.

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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

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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.
 
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.

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

The shop owner has the black and white beast

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

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

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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 :confused:

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.
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This guy had an original Hudson Hollywood
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Tons of Metro's...
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And stuff from his front garage..
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and EVERYTHING was for sale :cool:
 

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