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Originally Posted by Adam
I think the '60 Buick is the most beautiful car ever made! But the '59 is #2 for me, with the '59 Chevy not close behind. Actually I really like all the 59/60 GM cars.
'53 was the first year for the V8 in Buicks, with the 322 nailhead replacing the 320ci ohv straight 8, in the Roadmaster. But the Special kept the 263 straight 8 for one more year, being replaced in '54 with the 264 ci nailhead V8.
Buick was actually the first to offer a 4 barrel carburetor, in '52, not on a V8, but in Roadmasters equipped with the 320 I8. And was also one of the earliest cars to be equipped with multiple carburetors, with two 2-barrel carbs appearing on '41-42 Buicks (on both the 320 and the smaller 248 straight 8 engines)
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I agree the 59-60 Chevys are very nice cars,I do like the 1960 Buick too,but (to me) it can't compare with that flawless '59 styling.
The '59 has that angry pissed off looking front end that seems to be challenging lesser vehicles to dare cross it's path,then there are those fantastic sweeping delta shaped fins trailing behind propelling the driver forward into the sparkling world of tomorrow, leaving finless motorists behind it to solemnly contemplate how far we've fallen since the glorious days when mankind was capable of creating such incredible visions of the future.
Were I to choose a Ford my favorite would be the 1960 Starliner hardtop coupe,they continued it into 1961,but as with the 1960 Buick the fins were shorn down,and as we all know fins should be made larger,not smaller.