Kurt Arends
PCS Elected Director 2021-2024
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1951 Flxible Buick combination
I stopped back at the location of '51 Flxible Buick combination from an earlier post (#134), to get the info from the build plate. It is as follows: Model # 21-551, Serial # 17412, Engine # 65501895. Also looked it over now that the snow is gone. Pretty rough, but fairly complete. A couple questions, I realized while looking at the car, that it has electric windows - was this standard in '51 for Buick? I would think that even if it were standard on the Roadmaster, it wouldn't be on the Super - but I don't know 50s Buicks at all. It seems to be a combo, there are two brackets with straps for oxygen tanks, plus a compartment for the first aid kit, along with some screw holes for the cot bar - do the rollers in the floor come out when used as an ambulance? And lastly - I looked behind the front seat, and the spare tire is in place - with a Buick hubcap on it - is that standard practice or did a previous owner pick up a spare? All four wheels have Buick hubcaps.
I stopped back at the location of '51 Flxible Buick combination from an earlier post (#134), to get the info from the build plate. It is as follows: Model # 21-551, Serial # 17412, Engine # 65501895. Also looked it over now that the snow is gone. Pretty rough, but fairly complete. A couple questions, I realized while looking at the car, that it has electric windows - was this standard in '51 for Buick? I would think that even if it were standard on the Roadmaster, it wouldn't be on the Super - but I don't know 50s Buicks at all. It seems to be a combo, there are two brackets with straps for oxygen tanks, plus a compartment for the first aid kit, along with some screw holes for the cot bar - do the rollers in the floor come out when used as an ambulance? And lastly - I looked behind the front seat, and the spare tire is in place - with a Buick hubcap on it - is that standard practice or did a previous owner pick up a spare? All four wheels have Buick hubcaps.
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Cadillac power window switches found in junkyards are among my priorities pulling. Never seen any mounted vertically, single or group. Hard to tell detail in this shot, are the switches themselves slightly rounded, and having knurled scallops? If so, I removed perhaps an identical driver's power window switch from a '51 or '52 Fleetwood in NM a couple years ago. Don't recall contour of plate on that group of 4 but think the one pictured above matched the design of the individual window switches that came off the Fleetwood.
Sorry about the pic, should have gotten closer. Yes, exactly as you describe. This is the drivers door, with the four vertically mounted. As I remember, the passenger door has a single horizontally mounted (don't hold me to the mounting position.) The passenger side rearward door has a group of two switches mounted just inside to left (interior of the C pillar) - I have to assume for the windows in the back doors. I wasn't smart enough to see if that was duplicated on the drivers side. I remember for certain that group of two was horizontal, I just hadn't realized what they were for at that point.
I found this '66 M-M combination in Nashville, AR last week. It's unusual in that it has a cloth interior, usually only seen in hearses. In fact, this is the only '65-'70 M-M combination I can remember seeing that had this option.
This car has good metal and glass. It appears to have been sitting outside for some time and consequently has suffered the usual maladies. It had a cheap repaint at some point and has been used as a haunted house prop. The rear floor has been modified and the attendant seats are missing.
Please excuse the lousy cell phone photos:
This car has good metal and glass. It appears to have been sitting outside for some time and consequently has suffered the usual maladies. It had a cheap repaint at some point and has been used as a haunted house prop. The rear floor has been modified and the attendant seats are missing.
Please excuse the lousy cell phone photos:
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Lost track of this '55 Superior Pontiac a couple years ago.
Shriners. An admission of the devil making them do it helps.
Shriners. An admission of the devil making them do it helps.
Keith Snyder
PCS Member
Jacob.....According to Tom Mcpherson, this car (a model B21-751) is a Flxible-Buick Sterling end loading funeral car. It was sold to A. Sanborn & Son Funeral Home in Camden, New York and delivered on January 1, 1952. The motor number was/is 65501895 and the frame number was/is 16344785. Power windows and driver's seats were standard equipment on Flxibles of this era.
Lost track of this '55 Superior Pontiac a couple years ago.
Shriners. An admission of the devil making them do it helps.
Last time I saw this one was it Memphis behind a house getting a backyard paint job I think its still there.
Since '09/'10 Chris? That's when I have number saved from. '55 was for sale in Corinth, east of you. May not have traveled far.
Kurt Arends
PCS Elected Director 2021-2024
'55 Pontiac
That bumper guard on the back bumper of that Pontiac looks like the optional front bumper guard off of a '60/'61 Plymouth.
That bumper guard on the back bumper of that Pontiac looks like the optional front bumper guard off of a '60/'61 Plymouth.
Since '09/'10 Chris? That's when I have number saved from. '55 was for sale in Corinth, east of you. May not have traveled far.
I saw it less than a year ago I would almost bet its still there, when I get a chance I will go by and see if its there and try and get a picture.
55 Buick in Sweden
Sad old rig far from home
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57611049@N05/7184106738/in/pool-rusty_old_cars
Sad old rig far from home
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57611049@N05/7184106738/in/pool-rusty_old_cars
Found this 58 superior this weekend. Looks to be a solid car and a combo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15301193@N07/7187860558
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15301193@N07/7187860558
Ed probably has enough left over parts from other restorations to make this one whole again.
