I know this is not a spridget

[regularman]

But its one of the most eye catching cars I have ever seen on the internet. 1948 Buick. I want one.
cool car

 

[mightymidget]

if you are gonna want

want big

 

[Guest]

I don;t like it, it doesn't look like a BUick. I was a Buick guy and have nevr heard of this car. Y-job, yeah, this thing, no.


Here's what you really need:

https://www.thecoolist.com/hennessey-venom-gt/

 

[Sarastro]

I dunno. Not a lot of luggage or passenger space, but I guess that depends on whether your passenger is your mistress or your mother in law.

Also, wouldn't fit in my garage. I guess I'll pass...

 

[Trevor Jessie]

The Hennessey thing is ugly in my opinion. Didn't someone recently mention Corvette Summer?

 

[Silverghost]

The Hennessey thing is ugly in my opinion. Didn't someone recently mention Corvette Summer?

Yep, that was me! :laugh: The Spridget "clone" can be seen in the thread "Look at the wing" or here on eBay:

https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360272156515

 

[Silverghost]

I totally appreciate the craftsmanship of the '48 Buick but the aesthetics just don't do it for me. Reminds me a bit of a Toyota 2000

 

[Guest]

I totally appreciate the craftsmanship of the '48 Buick but the aesthetics just don't do it for me. Reminds me a bit of a Toyota 2000

YES !!!!! THAT's IT !!!!!

I knew it reminded me of something but couldn't remember what.

Trev, it's the next ~real~ Cobra....little British car with BIG American V8. What's not to like????

O.k o.k, I'd rather a hot K in one but still...

 

[Guest]

The Corvette Summers car reminds me of some sort of sea creature. I want to say from "Finding Nemo".

The Buick reminds me of an old step van or ice cream delievery van.

 

[Trevor Jessie]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Trev, it's the next ~real~ Cobra....little British car with BIG American V8. What's not to like????[/QUOTE]

Hmmm, they built a custom frame and tacked on some Lotus body panels and installed a mismatch of drive train and suspension. The specs may look good on paper, but this is a car for people who want to own something exotic and do not care how it truly performs. And... it is UGLY.

It is just my opinion... but I'd tell John H himself.

 

[Guest]

I didn't look at the specs, but you can buy me whichever one you like the best.

 

[Morris]

I am with you Kim... that Buick is a work of art.

 

[bthompson]

I'm with Kellysguy on this one: it doesn't look like a Buick or a '48, at least not a Buick that would have been done <span style="font-style: italic">in </span>'48. The earliest photos I've been able to find of GM postwar styling excercises was the '50 Motorama, and the aesthetic there was long, high hoods, wide bodies, and bustle trunks. Step-down streamlining like that didn't kick in for the General until the '50s were well underway.

That looks decidedly French to me. Nothing in-house at GM would have come up with that.

And rear engine? There's only one guy who tried a rear-engine American car in '48. And we know what happened to <span style="font-style: italic">him</span>.

<span style="font-style: italic">This </span> was cutting-edge spaceship styling rear-engine style in 1948. See the difference? Conservative GM couldn't touch it, even with its Motorama dream cars, 'till a least five years later.

 

[regularman]

I am with you Kim... that Buick is a work of art.

Thanks Morris, I think maybe these others think that it is a modified car. Its not. Its a perfectly restored concourse 1948 Buick, just very rare. I love the style of it. Something about those curves seems timeless. Here is some more pictures of it and the last ones are from way back.
https://www.askforcars.com/2010/03/buick-streamliner-1949.html]  

 

[bthompson]

Weeellll...it may have a Buick V8 in it, and Norman Timbs may have been a stylistic genius decades ahead of his time, but that don't make it a Buick, any more than wrapping MG sheetmetal around a big-block Hemi makes a Midget.

As a one-off, though, it's a stunner, I'll give you that. I still think it looks French. Shades of Delage in the fenders. I'll bet if Norman Timbs was head of GM's Art & Colour instead of Harley Earl, the '50s would have unfolded quite a bit differently...!

 

[AngliaGT]

Why isn't this posted under "Other Cars",
as it has nothing at all to do with Spridgets?

- Doug

 

[Trevor Jessie]

Good question Doug. We rarely have off topic posts here, so it is not much of an issue. If it became a trend I'm sure the moderator would help us out.