With that said, one sure path to creating a successful mild custom is following Jim Elwood's lead and starting with a car that has a pleasing design to begin with. "I always liked the lines of the '55 ...

To some car-crazy kids who grew up in the 1950s, a black-and-white ’55 Buick sedan will always be Broderick Crawford. The man and the car are inseparable. The burly Oscar-winning actor did not appear ...

Introduced in the 1930s, the Buick Special is not as iconic as the GSX, Riviera, or the Century, but it had an important role within the lineup as the company's entry-level model. And it's also the ...

Eric Barth, of Warsaw, Indiana, is a young builder who spent 3 years building his '55 Buick Special. Fitted with a 400-horse, 383 small-block and a 700R4 trans, the big Buick rolls on a full Air Ride ...

If you spend much time in high-inventory-turnover California wrecking yards, you'll see the occasional 1950s Detroit car. Mostly they won't have serious rust, but for one reason or another they couldn ...

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The last time Buick had an automobile called the Special in showrooms, Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon, and the Woodstock Music Festival had 400,000 attendees. Yup, it was 1969, meaning the ...