I saw one today. Has to be a '48 sedan hardtop Super 8 with ALL the bells and whistles - driver's side spotlight, fog lights, what looked to be read side mounted reflector or actual lights on the rear panels, white wall tires, moon hubs, chrome everything. It was a rolling work of art. I can't even imagine what that world looked like where all the cars were behemoths that really didn't last all that long for all the work that had to have gone into producing them -- when America was its own producer of the raw materials, steel mills, rubber factories, textile mills, chrome operations -- and if one hit 100,000 miles, it was pretty much spent as I recall. What a wonderful sight to behold on this dank, rainy day where I reside.
@LeoCardenas-nt5qb3 ай бұрын
Pensé que era un Buick súper de 1942
@alanstrong55 Жыл бұрын
My folks would have been delighted to get a car like that as a wedding gift back in 1948. Looks like a prize.
@michaelcallahan535811 ай бұрын
Aerodynamically perfect!
@Lockemeister2 жыл бұрын
The Buick Super Eight is a stunning car that owns the road, even today. Thank you for making this video. I actually came to this video because I just watched ABBA sing "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and Bjorn Ulvaeus is wearing a jacket that says Buick Eight on the back of it. If I remember correctly, Ulvaeus means "of the wolf", The Buick Super Eight is also of the wolf!!
@SailorSam415 ай бұрын
Took my breath away!
@Xaltar_6 жыл бұрын
What a car :) My dad had a 47 Buick when I was a kid, inline 8, music to the ears :D
@dave631bnetzero10 жыл бұрын
Very NICE. I remember curb feelers. What a car
@iamnoone94982 жыл бұрын
They’re called ankle slappers 😉😁
@MisterMikeTexas6 жыл бұрын
48 Buick and Ray Charles! Now all we need is a country road and a mild sunny day!
@shabbatshalom64592 жыл бұрын
Music spooky the lovely sound of the engine
@dchurch20128 жыл бұрын
Beautiful car!; Great to see it in action and running; The seats in those cars were like a sofa you would find in your living room; not the blocks of foam rubber of today.
@Schmeekss11 ай бұрын
I love Buicks and playing LA. Noire I unlocked the Buick Super, and I jumped with joy knowing I could play the game and drive some of my favorite cars of all time
@MisterMikeTexas6 жыл бұрын
R.I.P, Ray Charles! You are missed!
@j818518 жыл бұрын
Have to agree would like to hear the sound of the car being driven even though the music is cool.
@RJSilverEagle14 жыл бұрын
Fantastic car one of my favorites, I've had several Buicks in my car collection.
@Sysiphistication7 жыл бұрын
Totally fantastic, great make, great model, great restoration! I'll take it.
@StickShiftVanMan12 жыл бұрын
turn of the damn tunes! I wanna hear the motor!
@travvypoo6 жыл бұрын
One of my dream cars.
@adoreslaurel10 жыл бұрын
Stunning car, and to think that some mush head might get their hands on something like this and turn it into a Ratrod makes you want to throw up'
@adoreslaurel10 жыл бұрын
***** I live in OZ and our Prime Minister from "49 to "65 at one stage used a Four door one of these as his official Government car. these old Buicks had some real style.
@UfoDan1007 жыл бұрын
Great video work and song. My dad had a 1950 Buick Super for 9 years back in the 50's when I was a child. In 1959 the dynaflow went bad and he bought a new Studebaker Lark. Smaller cars were in our future back then !
@jayc31104 жыл бұрын
Cannot believe the need for music in car videos!
@wanaraz4 жыл бұрын
It don't even fit the time the car was made.
@bigcity23314 жыл бұрын
GREAT CAR! Looks very original - which is how I like to see them. Last of the pre-war designed Buicks - built like a tank. Buicks of the 40's are great cars.
@fernandorochadesa9041 Жыл бұрын
Belissimo automovel
@TBullCajunbreadmaker4 жыл бұрын
The last paint job it got is really a pretty black but it has just the slightest hint of red in the black paint that it is almost the darkest maroon I have ever seen it is a very dark oxblood more than anything else I can think of. One of the best tinted black colors I have ever seen. Nice car. I have done this old, old trick a couple of times. A gun metal grey is another really good candidate to tint. That started in the late 40s when people were beginning to get some pretty good painting equipment inexpensively as far as quality goes.
@franciscoarancibiavillarre77359 жыл бұрын
Hermoso, color, estado, y mecànica felicitaciones al propietario. Tiene usted un trozo de historia. Conocì uno igual, incluso mismo color, en 1952. Yo tenìa siete años.Lo mas lindo que he visto, Take good care of this baby ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
@marcosantonioferreiradeass43743 жыл бұрын
Realmente lindo e fabuloso veículo !
@jo05dk9 жыл бұрын
Music drowning out the sound of the wonderful engine? That has no written all over it.
@ekomifingpa3613 жыл бұрын
Magnifique! Ah ces américaines de la fin des années 40...inégalable! Le vrai rêve automobile...
@TheGel697 жыл бұрын
tres belle auto, je travaille actuellement sur une buick super cabriolet de 1949
@vandenabeeleandries9 жыл бұрын
shes a beauty
@Trooper569113 жыл бұрын
Magnifique cette Buick, quel régal de la voir rouler !!! J'ai eu une Century 1956 avec le démarrage au pied aussi :-)
@specialized29er867 жыл бұрын
Besautiful car and perfectly suited music.
@mallorywilde13 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful!
@bigbass4215 жыл бұрын
I really think the sounds of the car would have been more to the liking of the people who opened this.
@bertus1610574 ай бұрын
Super❤
@Leo-em4pf10 жыл бұрын
Beautiful.
@kittycorner85263 жыл бұрын
Manual transmissions are my preference in older cars. Natural sound is best, especially when showing a vintage automobile. Straight eights don't sound like V-eights. I love the nostalgia of cars from 1932 to 1972.
@6sexysize8 жыл бұрын
I'd seriously kill and maim to own this beauty !!! Agreed about the music !
@davidmann4533 Жыл бұрын
I remember my grandfather had an old Ford with Curb feelers😂
@gabrielvieira65293 жыл бұрын
Really cool
@Ptitgars6612 жыл бұрын
Absolument magnifique !
@pauloleitao32413 жыл бұрын
Muito lindo! Não se faz mais carro como antigamente. 👏👏👏👏 BRASIL
@srercrcr4 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing the original flathead 8 was swapped out for an early 50's OHV 8, Buick all the way
@valenzo674 жыл бұрын
There has never been a V8 in these, it's a Buick...
@martentrudeau69483 жыл бұрын
I agree it probably was a flat-head straight 8 original, but switch for OHV straight 8.
@DejaView3 жыл бұрын
'48 Buick would not be a V8. Buick's first V8 debuted for the 1953 model year. However, neither was this car ever powered by a flathead engine. David Buick's claim to fame in the automotive world was the OHV engine from its inception in 1903.... www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a7931/buicks-111-birthday/
@peterfarago24292 жыл бұрын
No 40’s Buick had a flathead. OHV straight eights since the 20’s
@therealniksongs2 жыл бұрын
@@peterfarago2429 No Buick EVER had a flathead. Buicks were ALWAYS "Valve-In-Head." Buick invented the overhead valve engine.
@novmad6714 жыл бұрын
the most beautiful car ever. i want one, and hope i get one - soon, very soon!!! thank you for uploadig!!!
@Bachfeuer8 жыл бұрын
I do wish you had not covered the distinctive sounds of this car with anachronistic music.
@bobdudeface5707 жыл бұрын
Bachfeuer You must not be American.
@hyzercreek7 жыл бұрын
He thinks Ray Charles from the early 1950's in anachronistic with the late 1940's. Off by only 5 years.
@bobdudeface5707 жыл бұрын
hyzercreek If you were a teen getting your first "used" car.
@charlesbalsamo90766 жыл бұрын
Yeah... the music. Kinda sucks anyway.
@jamescrabb87666 жыл бұрын
It's supposed to be a car video. Stop trying to be cool and just do good car sounds.
@valenzo6715 жыл бұрын
Moteur : 8 cylindre en ligne ~4,2L, Dynaflash Fireball Couleur : Royal Maroon (d'origine : bi-ton Gris) Musique : Ray Charles - What I'd Say
@frankeggers40248 жыл бұрын
To bad the music made it impossible to hear the car clearly,
@nygelmiller5293 Жыл бұрын
To Frank Eggers. Oh, I don't know. You did still get to hear the TONE of this smooth running engine! And I did like the music itself! Plus, it would sound as if you hearing it, as you listen to the radio when you're cruising along!
@nygelmiller5293 Жыл бұрын
I came across this model by co-incidence, on the internet. Every time I see it, I love it more and more. We're getting married next week......
@angelitavaldellon76006 ай бұрын
Buick never called it Super Eight, just SUPER.
@Bozukoviy13 жыл бұрын
Roooh ; l etat de cette Buick : superbe . La musique va vraiment bien avec la video (surtout lors du ride) .
@ivanwashington31864 ай бұрын
sure with there wasn't that music to drown out the natural music of that straight 8.
@davidsoskov40104 жыл бұрын
unlike all these people i actually thought the music was real nice.
@oscaris1ru125 жыл бұрын
yeah ray charles was blind alright, I saw him driving around here the other day
@LarryKos10 жыл бұрын
Great car...looks like Mr. Putter's car (from the kid's series : "Mr. Putter and Tabby"!
@405liner10 жыл бұрын
Lovely car. My tongue is hanging out in envy. Unfortunately this video is spoiled by the harsh rock 'n roll music. Something smoother and more in period would have been better.
@valenzo6712 жыл бұрын
this engine doesn't make a sound ;) it's a flying carpet ! btw the car has been sold a year ago
@stevemurphy98078 жыл бұрын
great car, stick shift! most buicks seemed to be dynaflow, or as we kids called it, dynaflush......
@frankeggers40248 жыл бұрын
+Steve Murphy We called it slipaflow.
@redradiodog7 жыл бұрын
Slipamatic.
@frankeggers40247 жыл бұрын
But they accelerated so smoothly, while the engine went "ththththththth" at a steady pitch. The gasoline suppliers loved them.
@DejaView2 жыл бұрын
And don't forget, the ORIGINAL 1st generation Powerglide was simply a light-duty Dynaflow copy. From '50 through '52 it didn't shift. Some people called it "Slip-n-Slide Powerglide"! LoL!!
@oscaris1ru125 жыл бұрын
left full rudder aye
@howardhagadorn94435 жыл бұрын
ditto on the music
@valenzo6712 жыл бұрын
as I said on another comment, you can't hear the engine, even without the music, you can just hear the air blowing on the bodywork...
@alexvaliansky77072 ай бұрын
Weren’t the straight eight engines of these Buicks grossly underpowered. If I remember correctly, they had an output of only about ninety horsepower. No wonder they had no pickup to speak of.
@julioroberto54775 жыл бұрын
Buick 👏👏👏👍😃🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
@jawedbrzadventures23965 жыл бұрын
I saw a abandoned 1942 Buick Super Eight with a Manual transmission inside a farm barn here in Philippines. No rust, last registered is year 2006. I wonder if I will buy it. The owner will sell it 25,000 Pesos (500USD) to me. All is complete except the interior seats and panels :(
@valenzo6714 жыл бұрын
Novmad : you're welcome ! Chanaka : i don't know, i'll ask the owner... it's not MY car but a friend's one.
@ryan957011 жыл бұрын
agree! I can't understand why Caddy and Olds had the far superior Hydramatic and Buick was stuck with what they used to nickname the "Dyna-slush" transmission.
@1racemate5 жыл бұрын
just like the buick tank
@mikedrown2721 Жыл бұрын
Start out in low gear for faster acceleration
@SpaceAceTX13 жыл бұрын
Stephen King - From a Buick 8 Tobe Hooper has agreed to direct, going to be awesome if they would get rolling on it !
@geraldbillingsley51085 жыл бұрын
I have a 48 and if it's not sold in a few weeks it's going to be a street rod. I really don't want to do that. But...
@jimrick66325 жыл бұрын
I WANT ONE....
@C.Jinasena14 жыл бұрын
Great car. I have a 58 Century Riviera 4 door which needs to get restored.... so you don't need the key to turn the ignition on ? How does that work ? In the vid, you press the accelerator to the floor to start it (that's how it is on the 58 too) but you insert the key into the switch only after it starts... how is that ? Don't you need the key to turn the ignition switch from off to on ??
@steveashcraft7185 жыл бұрын
No. Only to lock the ignition switch. 59 was the last year for that and the vacuum starter system.
@ryan957011 жыл бұрын
does anyone know what year Buick discontinued the 3-on-the-column manual transmission? we had '51, '53 and '55 Buicks and I always hated the Dynaflow automatic.
@Wallace8235 жыл бұрын
In later Buicks manual transmission was only available in the 40 series .Buick special. I did see a manual in a 59 Buick LeSabre sedan.
@Wallace8235 жыл бұрын
I loved the Dynaflow. So smooth, no annoying down shifts. Dynaflow was made by Buick only not for other cars. If you take note, Buick had many things that no other G M cars have.
@paradiseroad64055 жыл бұрын
@@Wallace823 ...Dynaflow was a revolutionary moment in automotive history...within a decade everyone had a torque converter transmission...including heavy equipment companies like Caterpillar with their Powershift...torque converter science was established and progressed because of Dynaflow...
@1575murray5 жыл бұрын
@@Wallace823 Some Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles were built with Dynaflow transmissions in 1953 after a fire burned down the Hydramatic transmission plant. GM purchased the Willow Run plant from Kaiser and was able to restart Hydramatic production for the start of the 1954 model year. So at least some other GM products did have Dynaflow.
@Circlotron11 жыл бұрын
Why was there a car on this music video?
@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын
Buick never called it Super 8, just Super. ALL Buicks were Eights.
@1racemate5 жыл бұрын
buick is hot through
@olmon1111 жыл бұрын
Cadillac & Oldsmobile each had their own, individually developed motor. . I The 49 Olds DID NOT have a Cadillac V8 in it. I don't know where that misconception came from, but I have known for as long as I've been a gearhead that Cadillac and Olds DID NOT share a motor. The Cad was a 190HP 354CID VS 135HP 303CID for the Olds, but the Olds motor was the heavier of the two by 20lbs.
@1racemate5 жыл бұрын
the can was 331
@DejaView2 жыл бұрын
'48 Caddy, 346 Flathead, 150hp '49 Caddy 331 OHV, 160hp. Don't think they saw 190hp until '52 with the 1st use of the 4bbl carburetor. Olds was 304CID & 135hp but later went up to 160 with the 4bbl.
@Wallace8235 жыл бұрын
I wanted to hear the Buick performance. ...kill the music! Just drowns out the car sound.
@FumariVI5 жыл бұрын
It starts without the key in the ignition?
@steveashcraft7185 жыл бұрын
Yes. You have 3 positions on the ignition switch. Off, run and lock.
@maxpayne21556 жыл бұрын
what's name of the shifter?
@oscaris1ru125 жыл бұрын
rudder indicates left full
@NuToneJones19585 жыл бұрын
Get rid of the music please.
@paradiseroad64055 жыл бұрын
...it isn't a Buick without Dynaflow...
@GenuineBronxite7 жыл бұрын
What song is this?
@hyzercreek7 жыл бұрын
Ray Charles
@stuartp42803 жыл бұрын
Nice video; turned the awful music off. Jeesh.
@ritchienegrea57793 жыл бұрын
This must be in Russia somewhere. ??? I don’t think it’s in USA ..
@valenzo673 жыл бұрын
There are other countries in the world 😂 it's in France
@BUICKR3 жыл бұрын
@@valenzo67 you can't fix stupidity...
@tarstarkusz6 жыл бұрын
It's a shame those engines suck. There are way smaller 4 cylinders that put out more HP and torque than these straight 8s.
@sd312636 жыл бұрын
There was nothing wrong with these engines. Buick built millions of them.
@Wallace8235 жыл бұрын
There's no problem with the Buick engines. They used many of them in sawmills and highway buses. They were favored for their torque. .
@iamnoone94982 жыл бұрын
Why do people ruin car videos with loud, shit music! Mustn’t be car people.