Walter Chrysler had great mechanical skills on the Midwestern railroads and learned about cars by interacting with a locomotive he bought in 1908. In just a few years he became the plant manager at Buick under Charles W. Nash and took over from him as president....

A revised automatic transmission was introduced in 1958; Flight-Pitch Dynaflow, known in later years as the triple turbine transmission. It was standard on the large Buicks and optional on the rest of the line. It was costly to produce due to the complicated...

The key to entering the luxury car market for Buick was supposed to be the 1958 Buick Limited. 1958 turned out to be a recession year and very bad timing for Buick, although no one could have foreseen this at its planning years making Buick Company experience its...

The Buick Riviera Coupe is a vehicle that teaches an important lesson; don’t forget lesser versions of a prime collectible. For the mid-to-late 1950s Buicks, car collectors' interest is usually centered on the Century models, which is a combination of the smaller...

Buick had an old slogan “Valve-in-head, ahead in value” and was also applicable for the 1950-’52 Buick Roadmaster. The rest of the industry-led by Oldsmobile and Cadillac was finally coming to a conclusion that overhead valves were going replace side valves....

The number of Packard Hawks which were equipped with the no-cost, optional Borg-Warner T85 three-speed manual transmission with overdrive at the factory was 26. A Hawk that was originally fitted with the Flightomatic, would be better if installed with 1958 T85 with...

The dashboard was thickly padded and within it was the same engine-turned instrument panel found on the Golden Hawk fitted with Stewart Warner gauges. Beneath the hood was the ‘Jet Stream Supercharged’289 cubic inch V-8 borrowed from the 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk,...

The Designer of this car was Duncan McRae who later added the Lark to his resume, and his task was to create this car for Hurley's personal use. The project was not economically prudent to be involved in for a company that could not actually build a new line of cars...

The Packard Hawk was the fastest car the company ever produced though it was the final year of production. The Packard plant located in Detroit, Michigan had been leased to Curtiss-Wright and was later sold to them and all Packard models were rebadged and retrimmed...

It was a luxury car produced by Mercedes-Benz from 1951-1955. The car was introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show in April 1951; it was powered by a single overhead camshaft inline six-cylinder M180 engine and was offered as a saloon coupe and, Cabriolet with 220 model...