Tom Costain Palm Beach Garden Florida 1950 Buick Special sedan I've owned the car for
about six and a half years actually I ran across it on Ebay I was looking for a 50 Buick
grill and I found the car decided I had to have it bid on it and won it actually a friend
of mine called him up he lives in Georgia and told him I said let's double team on this
thing because I won it and he's actually the one who won it in the action he got the last
bid in on it just in time and it worked out well well it had a straight 8 in their it
was locked up and the suspension was questionable I decided that didn't want to get work with
the front suspension so I put no subframe in there lowered it set it to the height that
I wanted then I put a 4 length rear suspension in the back so I can adjust the setting back
there and it's I put a Cadillac 500 engine in it to replace that locked up straight 8
got a 400 Cadillac transmission all new wiring all new brakes got disks up front put you
right through the windshield when you stop it if you want to stops good the interior
was all rotted out the mice had ate that up pretty good and the glass a lot of it was
broke out or try to roll a window down and it would split the cranks wouldn't even crank
actually I had to take everything apart and rework all the regulators so I ended up putting
all new glass in it and so it's pretty much a completely re done car all the gages are
all redone they work the radio is converted over to FM was an original AM radio so it's
just basically everything done to it except the exterior I don't have an intention to
paint it I like it like it is just keep putting that lubricant on there spray that on there
once in a while about once every 6 months I need to put it on there meant to do it before
I came up here but it rained all the way through Florida on it well I really like the body
on it first off the grill catches your attention right off the bat you know thats probably
the most massive grill their is on any car and I really like a grill that's the first
thing that catches my eye is the grill work and then the bumper is just nice and massive
but the body lines on the car you know grill port holes and the flow of the body you know
it's got more than just dropping down here and come up here it's got lines coming down
there the flow of the fast back is just you know it just adds to it all actually if it
didn't have the fast back I might not have been so enticed to jump on it it was just
everything that I like about this car it was the complete package basically when I took
the straight 8 out it had just a single pipe blown back out the back I had to redo that
obviously I put dual exhaust on the Cadillac motor I put thrush pipes in their and went
out through the frame in front of the wheel I had them straight first and every time I'd
go by the car I'd kick the pipes so I ended up cutting them off at the same angle as the
car I haven't had any of that issue anymore it's hood lifts up from the side is that from
the factory or did no it does that it'll flip either way left or right yeah both sides are
hinged it's got 2 latches on each side theres a latch and a henge on each side