Troy Sherk

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@gmshitbox5621 6 ай бұрын

still got this car?

@TroySherk 6 ай бұрын

Yup! It’s not my daily driver anymore apart from when my daily needs work, but I do still have it.

@gmshitbox5621 6 ай бұрын

@@TroySherknice, i bought a sedan version of this last summer and have been using it as my daily driver.

@SargHWP 8 ай бұрын

Never abuse this car I own one myself and I'm 19 you treat it right it will treat you right anyways need to fix your wheel I like nice and straight is it a inline 7 or 8?

@TroySherk 8 ай бұрын

Inline 8. As far as I know, there were never any cars produced with an inline 7. They only really show up in certain ships and maybe some industrial things.

@davidadkison4702 8 ай бұрын

I owned a 1956 Buick Century 4 door hardtop with a 300 v 8 really was a cruiser on the open interstate and gas mileage was very good. Can't beat a Dynaflo transmission.

@MitchellMaichak-ze7mr 9 ай бұрын

I had a 1953 Buick Super two door hardtop in the late 1980s , powered by a Fireball V8 with a Dynaflow transmission ! Thanks so much for a drive down memory lane !!!

@A_Litre_of_Farva 9 ай бұрын

It would likely start better if he pumps it 3/4 of the way down a few times - not far enough to engage the starter but enough to give some squirts of fuel.

@TroySherk 9 ай бұрын

I agree. I've learned a bit in the 7 years between then and now. But one thing to note is that the starter engages after very little pedal travel. You'd have to pump it with the ignition off, or as I did here, while the starter's already cranking (you can see my knee move as I pumped it right before it took off).

@FennixGamingYT Жыл бұрын

What's the top speed you could reasonably drive one of these? Could it handle and interstate?

@TroySherk Жыл бұрын

70+ mph is certainly achievable, but you probably wouldn’t want to do it for long durations. I’ve had it on the highway for short runs of like 15 minutes at 60-65 mph, and I think the fastest I’ve driven it in a short burst is around 80. It handled all these situations just fine, but I don’t think I’d want to drive it above 55 or 60 for hours at a time.

@JamesGadbury Жыл бұрын

My 90 20v fuel filler tube has a metal flap inside.

@norrisolson589 Жыл бұрын

Ran a couple of STOP signs there Buddy !!

@TroySherk Жыл бұрын

The GoPro distorts the view. I assure you, though it is not a perfect stop, it is much less "running the stop sign" than it looks.

@AJ67901 Жыл бұрын

My first car was a 1952 Buick Special given to me by my grandmother back in 1971. I can still remember exactly what the interior smelled like. Thanks for the memories!

@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын

The Buick was the next best thing to a Cadillac. None of the other GM cars could match it.

@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын

Woman drove without power steering or power brakes just fine, so no male should have any trouble.

@arlenroth8373 2 жыл бұрын

Great car! I have a '52 Super woodie...love it! Where is this? Pretty country!

@TroySherk 2 жыл бұрын

I'm jealous! Love the Buick wagons of the early '50s, late '40s. The video was filmed in northern Indiana. Not usually a classically "pretty" area, but it does have its moments.

@arlenroth8373 2 жыл бұрын

@@TroySherk yeah, I had a 40 Buick woodie for 30 years, had to give it up, and several others, too but my '52's a keeper!

@dougn2350 2 жыл бұрын

Neat to look at but, Really makes you appreciate modern cars.

@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын

How? They are unspeakably ugly, they ride like trucks, they are really cramped inside, many have so much road noise that they sound like they have bad wheel bearings, and they are too low. You can't see and you can't where your hat if you are tall. I don't like them at all.

@Alcyone850 2 жыл бұрын

This is AWESOME man. For a large chunk of my life I've been microobsessing over the inline 8. They seem so smooth; especially in these times when we're mostly surrounded by inline 4's and v-6's(though it does seem that inline 6's are slowly making a resurgence). I get that in these times of trying to simply stay alive financially and meet emission goals, manufacturers likely wouldn't even think of putting their $ to producing a "modern" i8, BUT I can't help but yearn for GM to allow Buick to depart from their family hauling ho-hum crossover craze and give us a low-wide-long RWD coupe powered by a smooth, torquey i8 backed by their 10 speed ♡ A Riviera re-boot maybe... One can dream 💭 Nonetheless, this was awesome man and I appreciate you allowing us to experience this virtually ♡

@clydedahler9542 2 жыл бұрын

Great sounding engine, my 53 super had 2 forward gears L Low and D for Drive, thanks for the download, brought back memories

@A_Litre_of_Farva 2 жыл бұрын

Oh gawd that sounds good…nothing like a Buick 8 cyl

@ProjectRescues 2 жыл бұрын

That isn't drag racing, thats out for a Sunday drive.

@TroySherk 2 жыл бұрын

The launch and first gear change or two were pretty thrilling from the passenger seat of the Duesenberg, even if the ultimate speed was that impressive, haha.

@fordtruxdad5155 2 жыл бұрын

Man, that's a nice ride! I've got a question about these accelerator-start Buicks. If you get in a driving situation where you have to stomp on the throttle, how do you keep from activating the starter when driving? My father had one but I was too little to drive at the time.

@TroySherk 2 жыл бұрын

That's a good question. I think it's a vacuum activated switch on the carb, so it only activates when the engine is not running. The switch engages with very little throttle input (and you can activate it by pulling the throttle back with your hand in the engine bay too).

@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын

There is a relay in the starting circuit that prevents the starter from getting current when the generator in spinning.

@fordtruxdad5155 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelbenardo5695 Thank you. Always wondered.

@34Packardphaeton 2 жыл бұрын

... exhaust seems noisy, to me ...

@brucewiemer255 2 жыл бұрын

Word of advice. Pump foot feed to start cold. Is this power steering option? Him not armstronging to steer. Ps set toe in. Steering wheel crooked. 49 roadmaster driver

@TroySherk 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it does need aligned. And someone else beat you to the comment about pumping the gas too, haha. In the past, it didn't require that if I ran it just the day before, but this time it was more stubborn. I pumped it once or twice right before it started it (with the starter engaged). No power steering on this car. I just usually wait until it's rolling a bit before I try to crank the wheel so I don't have to work it so hard.

@brucewiemer255 2 жыл бұрын

@@TroySherk thank you Troy. Glad to meet another old buick driver. These cars no worse to drive as they were 60. Years ago. Daily drivers to me, much to the chagrin of the socialist state of califonia. To the credit of calif, do not half to retrofit my prewar iron to turn signals , dual wipers or stop lites.

@deanfarr3249 2 жыл бұрын

Why did it sound like it was misfire I could hear it when you got to the tailpipe

@tymac3306 2 жыл бұрын

very good power, so smooth,....beauty...wow 3:42 thoroughly impressed me,...the tires ta ta taaa....over those rails like nothing whatsoever.

@tymac3306 2 жыл бұрын

There is no mistaking the sound of a smooth inline 6 or 8.

@steveashcraft718 2 жыл бұрын

Never start one of these cars up with the radio on. You won't like the results.

@TroySherk 2 жыл бұрын

I've never really given it any thought other than that I wouldn't want to put more load on the electrical system than necessary when starting. What happens if you do? (Note that I turned the radio on after starting, not before, not that I think that's what you were saying anyway).

@steveashcraft718 2 жыл бұрын

@@TroySherk , Buick recommends radio be turned off when cranking engine. I failed to do that in a 53 Super i owned. It caused a voltage spike taking out the vibrator and something else in the radio, I don't remember what that was. I never made that mistake again.

@davidpowell3347 Жыл бұрын

@@TroySherk The radio draws a lot of power and will drain the battery to where the car won't crank in a fairly short time (like 10 or 20 minutes) if the original tube radio --but those radios sound better than transistor AM radios and I believe "better" cars like the Buick had more tubes in their radio than cheap cars like the Chevrolet--also those cars could "hear" distant and weak stations that your typical table radio model couldn't get

@davidpowell3347 Жыл бұрын

@@steveashcraft718 Something to do with a sticky relay in the voltage regulator? (Old cars with generators have complex non-solid state voltage regulators with I believe 3 mechanical relays,I believe a completely stuck relay in the regulator can burn out your generator while the car is parked or even start an underhood fire

@steveashcraft718 Жыл бұрын

@@davidpowell3347 , not really. While a stuck voltage regulator can do what you have stated starting the car with the radio on causes a voltage spike for whatever reason.

@jewishman2687 2 жыл бұрын

That engine looks super original (pardon the pun) except for the after market gas filter. The correct one has a glass bowl, and sits directly next to the carburetor.

@TroySherk 2 жыл бұрын

It's been a working car for almost 70 years now, and has never been treated as a real classic. It was basically a "backup car" even into the 2000s. Only in the last maybe 15 years has it been treated to things like some fresh Coker whitewall tires, and stuff like that. I think that fuel filter style was basically put on there to make it easy to swap in and out with easily available parts. It was especially useful when the gas tank had a lot of rust in it that would get sucked through.

@ChannelNotFound 2 жыл бұрын

This is for sale right now on prewarcar for $375K if anyone wants it.

@knitterscheidt 2 жыл бұрын

she's a good ole girl

@muffs55mercury61 2 жыл бұрын

Although their horsepower rating was 128 which may sound low, these were still very powerful cars in their day. It was much of our road system that was not up to it and thus there were many accidents. Freeways were still years into the future. This looks like Illinois, Indiana or Ohio (or possibly Iowa with all the corn fields there)

@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын

There were some freeways, in, where else, Los Angeles, and a few Turnpikes had appeared back east, but in Indiana, probably few if any

@muffs55mercury61 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelbenardo5695 I think the Indiana toll road was completed in 1956 or 1957. They didn't mess around in those days. Today it would take six of seven years to do a 156 mile freeway (244 in Ohio) when back then they did it in three.

@mgambuzz3 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Loved that it was you, the car, no inserted blaring music, allowing us to experience the drive as if we were the passenger. Ditto on the other comments on the camera positioning. So many are done in the passenger seat where all you can see is the glove box and the hood as it is too shallow to get a view of the dashboard.

@gentle285 3 жыл бұрын

What a fabulous thing... <3 I could just imagine my younger self parked in that "foresty" bit, radio is on low volume, and a pretty girl on your side.. <3

@deanfarr3249 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you are smart enough to hold onto this great rare classic car and not sell it to anybody at all

@allensoderlund7468 3 жыл бұрын

Love the sound of that no shift Dynaflow...

@1940limited 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a really nice road to drive an old car on, nice and smooth, not too much traffic.

@johnhart4872 3 жыл бұрын

There's nothing like the smooth hum of a straight eight. A great video! Thanks!

@kenbrand8972 Жыл бұрын

Really that engine sounds like a six

@rd4501 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful car💖

@stex1985 3 жыл бұрын

The smoothest ridding car ever put on four wheels and yours runs really well! Thanks for the memory.

@deanfarr3249 Жыл бұрын

Yeah basically a poor mans cadillac. Lol

@Modeltnick 4 жыл бұрын

The old Dynaflow steps right out! Nice car.

@markbrock4170 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting us hear it glide down the highway. I HAD a chance to get one in pretty much pristine shape for my son in Sheboygan, Wisconsin about 20 years back. It hummed. Did I mention it was only 1000 bucks? My son didn't want it. It kills me to this day. Listen to that car hum.

@davidcarroll1883 4 жыл бұрын

OMG!! Major flashbacks!! My Mom's boyfriend had one of these in 1960. I remember riding in the back seat. The emblem on the center wheel, the antenna knob on the roof, sideways hood and the whine the car made when it changed gears. I remember all this!! It was a black 4 door. Thanks for the ride. It was just like the one I remember.

@oldsteamguy 4 жыл бұрын

neat

@1badhaircut 4 жыл бұрын

Why is the exhaust loud?

@davidpowell3347 Жыл бұрын

Buick recommended that only straight through mufflers ("glasspacks") be used. That was what original equipment was if I remember from my grandfather's owner's manual. Pontiac also with its Straight Eight used factory glasspack if I remember. These were larger longer fatter glasspack mufflers than the kid's stuff aftermarket "bombs" so were not as loud as those but were louder than the common "reverse flow" muffler.

@MrLrry1266 4 жыл бұрын

I would have enjoyed this video, really, if it wasn't for the driver going through the stop signs at 1:22, 4:27. 8:48, and so on. It just ruined it for me. Great country side though!

@anthonyballard9051 4 жыл бұрын

Nice Cruise in a Nice Classic Troy!... 👍🙂

@noadmre7493 4 жыл бұрын

"And I long for my Indiana home...."

@jewishman2687 4 жыл бұрын

If you readjust the points (maybe clean them too) You will get a better response when starting. .Set them at .016. ALSO it is hard to find someone who can set the caster and camber on these cars, but the toe in and out can be set reasonably well by anyone. That way your steering wheel would be straight. Also those old steering boxes had to be tightened up every once in a while. takes the excess play out of the steering, and makes driving a bit easier. Loved the ride thanks.

@steveashcraft718 4 жыл бұрын

Ther is nothing like the view from behind the wheel of a Buick 8.

@davidgrisez 4 жыл бұрын

This 1952 Buick Super is one of those cars with an early automatic transmission known as the Buick Dynaflow. This transmission used the torque converter for torque multiplication and just stayed in high gear when in drive. The result was a very smooth acceleration, but the drawback was that the acceleration was some what sluggish. This is a nice video of a classic car.

@brdwonder 3 жыл бұрын

" somewhat sluggish" was an accurate description of all cars equipped with auto trans in the 50's. CN YOU SAY PNUT BUTTER DRIVE? Course U can. Simple 3 on the tree would outperform any of them with the average ignorant driver. Like maybe my or yer mom. Next she'll want power steering or something like that!

@davidpowell3347 Жыл бұрын

@@brdwonder 1950 Pontiac had a true Hydramatic 4 speed option that was slower than the 3 speed gearshift/clutch transmission (upshifted too early) but it would walk away from this Dynaflo at least up to about 40 mph. or so--Pontiac shared these with Oldsmobile and Cadillac ! unless "emergency low gear" was engaged and then shifted into Drive once the car(Buick Dynaflo) got up to about 40 but doing that more than few times and you would probably be needing a trans rebuild !

@robjaimes8830 11 ай бұрын

@@brdwonderthey called it “Dynaslush” for a reason. 🤣

@Phonejag1 4 жыл бұрын

Liked the video, looks like you’re having a blast driving. Only wish you would have shown us the car!

@ohioyodertoter6827 5 жыл бұрын

my grandpa had one of these haha

@bonnieblueflag5104 5 жыл бұрын

Apparently that first stop sign was really only a "yield" sign. He barely slowed down.

@TroySherk 5 жыл бұрын

Was barely moving (GoPro adds sensation of speed) and had someone in a hurry behind me who came speeding up behind me after turning a corner while I was backing out of the garage. Sorry, officer.

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