Classic white-over-red '55 Buick Special convertible receives cosmetic and mechanical updates ahead of online auction listing ...

Custom Rodder feature article on a 1955 Buick Special - Custom Rodder ... "I always liked the lines of the '55 Buick Special," Jim ... in two cylinders--it seems the engine builder had the ...

Sitting there was a lightly restored, stock, white-on-green '55 Buick Special with the biggest whitewalls I had ever seen. It had 60,000 miles on the odometer and a 30-foot passable paintjob. It ...

Since the old 322 motor was seized, Hirst replaced it with an original motor out of a 1955 Buick Special. "The motor ran so good I thought, 'Hey, this is a perfectly good engine,'" said Hirst.

The 1962 Buick Special - Buick's cheapest model at the time - was the first to receive the new V6. In essence, it was just the Fireball V8 with two cylinders lopped off, and with a displacement of ...

To some car-crazy kids who grew up in the 1950s, a black-and-white ’55 Buick sedan will always be Broderick Crawford. The man and the car are inseparable. The burly Oscar-winning actor did not ...

And it's also the nameplate that introduced the modern Buick V6 in the 1960s, which became one of the core GM engines for decades. The Special was born in 1936 as a full-size automobile.

The first Buick Century appeared in 1936 as a hot rod version of the entry-level Buick Special (see Escape Roads, Jan. 20, 1997), and the even more po ...

The V8 engine has been around for a long time — since before World War I. It wasn't until 1953, however, that Buick decided to give the V8 a try, replacing its straight-eight and stepping onto ...