Junkyard Gem: 1956 Buick Particular 4-Door Sedan

Buick was flying excessive within the center Nineteen Fifties, with an all-time gross sales document of practically 800,000 automobiles bought for the 1955 mannequin yr alone. Buick stood proud in third place for new-car gross sales in the USA for 1955 and 1956, behind solely Chevrolet and Ford. Presently, each Oldsmobile and Buick constructed automobiles on the GM B Platform, with the Buick being the swankier and extra prestigious of the 2. Here is a type of Buicks, present in a Denver self-service boneyard just lately.

The checklist worth of this automobile was $2,416, or about $27,505 in 2023 {dollars}. Positioned one step down on the GM Ladder of Success, the 1956 Olds 88 sedan began at $2,226 ($25,342 now).

The Oldsmobile had a 324-cubic-inch (5.3-liter) Rocket V8 rated at 230 horsepower, which was critical stuff for 1956. This 322-cubic-inch Buick Nailhead V8 made ten fewer horses for 1956, however it could be bored and stroked out to 364 cubes for 1957 (and was all about land-yacht torque, in any case).

A 3-on-the-tree guide transmission was customary gear on the 1956 Buick Particular, however this one has the $204 Dynaflow computerized transmission ($2,332 in immediately’s cash). The Dynaflow normally will get referred to as a two-speed, nevertheless it drove like extra of a really inefficient (but easy) CVT that had two manually-selected ranges.

This automobile spent too many many years outside to have any probability of a restoration.

As typically occurs with automobiles saved in fields in rural Colorado, somebody used this Buick for goal follow.

The bullet holes appear to be little VentiPorts.

Does the ’56 Buick go? Va-va-va-voom!