Love it! Would love to hear about it's history. For a cut-down sedan sports car of the era, it looks like it was very well done, very sporty looking for a huge Buick.
I would like to know the story as much as anyone out there! I got it from a Buick collector, and he got it from an Ebay ad around 2004. It came from the Chicago area. I have been trying to find out if anyone knows who built it. It was in a garage fire and a lot of the lead has melted. I will have a bunch of metal work ahead of me!
Interesting. Looks like a home built Sports Customs... but one done with very good taste. Many similar styled cars were build in the 1950's. They were all inspired by several magazine articles on how to create your own Sports Car from a regular sedan or even four door. A lot of them got started, and were never finished, some were finished and enjoyed for years. Very few ever made it into the magazine. I have never seen this one before. Should make a really nice driver.
Cool. I vote for the fact it was probably done in the 1950s based on those "how to" articles in Popular Mechanix and other publications. A man down the street from where I lived made a sporty roadster from two four door Hudsons in 1949.
There was the Buick Y Job built by/for Harley Earl from a 1938 model............ 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looks like something curtis or cushenberry might have had a hand in .. Id find out all the history you can before cutting on it . it could be worth a mint to the right guy.. never know . Or do what you want its yours right? it sure looks pretty!congrats
Here's another. This one belongs to my friend Angelo Fiorini. I don't know much about it except that the cut down Buick body sits on a '39 Ford frame.
Did you get that from a Buick collector in St Louis? I think I saw that car about 2 years ago. I was looking at some nailhead parts he had and a 60's convertible that had been damaged in the airport tornado. Cool roadster, he wasn't wanting to sell it then or I would have grabbed it!
What a beauty! Absolutely gorgeous! Kinda reminds ya of the "Buick Y Job". Keep us posted..................
There are a few more pics on the Kustomrama site HERE: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Brad_and_Gale_Bez'_1948_Buick