This car is a head turner and is enjoyed by everyone who has theprivilege of riding in or driving it.
*The dash mounted iPhone dock system was recently replaced with a more simple USB jack, and the car was fitted with a modern Air Conditioning system,everything else is as it was when it left ICON* A few of the many upgrades to the vehicle include an automatic Mercedes-Benzconvertible top, bespoke Moore & Gilesleather interior (seats 6), airconditioning, K&N air intake, Wilwood Brake kit (6 piston front, 4 piston rear), hidden Focal speaker system, one-off Circle Racing 6061 wheels with custom spun stainless hubcaps, as well as a custom steel engine cover from a 442 Oldsmobile complete with painedheads, togive the modernmotor a more rusticappearanceto match the rest ofthe car. The vehicle features a fully built chassis married to an original patina'd 1950 Buick Roadmaster body, powered by a brand new Chevrolet LS7 motor (500 miles on the motor) with a 4L85E automatic transmission. Up for sale is a one of a kind 1950 Buick Roadmaster TLC / ICONDerelict Convertible. (Buick's first "fins" came in 1952, well ahead of Virgil Exner and Chrysler.) When Nickles whimsically mounted little colored lights inside the portholes of his own Roadmaster, wired through the distributor to flash in firing order, Flint managers stared at it wide-eyed in open admiration the wonder is that they didn't make it standard.1950 Buick Roadmaster TLC / ICON Derelict Additional Info: It was part of that design lexicon, which took inspiration from the wonderful new jot aircraft (the basic Buick shape had evolved from the propeller-driven Lockheed P-38), along with the rounded "fuselage" of car body sides, the big scoop grilles, and the aileron-like tailfins.
The buck-tooth grille extended down over the bumper in 1950, but this was too strange even for Buickfolk (but much coveted today), and promptly receded in 1951.Įvery account of Buick in those days invariably mentions the origin of the porthole, which - variously bent, squeezed, elongated, wiped out, and restored again - has been part of the Buick styling tradition since '49. In that long-lost halcyon era, this was the kind of car America wanted -and bought.Īt a time when the annual model change was an act of faith, Buick chief designer Ned Nickles responded in the ordained manner by adding chrome, and the early-Fifties Buicks were not as purely beautiful as Ned's '49, the first all-new postwar design.
The latter three all arrived in 1949, when Buick sales correspondingly increased by 50 percent, and then doubled in 1950.
1950 buick roadmaster convertible professional#
It was the perfect term for the top of the Buick line, a car bordering on Cadillac price territory, preferred transport for the up-and-coming professional - the doctor, the lawyer, and anybody else who could not quite afford a Caddy.īuick catered to this clientele with flashy styling-far and away the flashiest of the GM divisions-plus luxury and a host of novel design ideas: the famous pop-art grille, the gun-sight hood ornament, the hardtop convertible, the sweepspear, and the porthole. "Roadmaster" - what a wonderful name for a car! It had emerged during 1936 and would last until it was foolishly removed for 1959.
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