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This 1956 Buick Century Packs A GEN III HEMI® V8

 

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Dec. 14, 2005 -- Damage to Taum Sauk reservoir near Lesterville, Mo., is seen in this aerial photo after more than a billion gallons of water poured through a breach at a hydroelectric plant's reservoir in rural southeast Missouri.

 

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[Dave6T4]

This 1956 Buick Century Packs A GEN III HEMI® V8

California Highway Patrol special ordered 1955 and 1956 Buick Century 2- sedans from GM for pursuit use. The Century chassis used the bigger 322 V-8 with 4-bbl. carb. The 2-door sedan body was lighter than the usual hardtop body. This variant was only available to CHP, and not the usual public. Kind of an early COPO car.

 

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California Highway Patrol special ordered 1955 and 1956 Buick Century 2- sedans from GM for pursuit use. The Century chassis used the bigger 322 V-8 with 4-bbl. carb. The 2-door sedan body was lighter than the usual hardtop body. This variant was only available to CHP, and not the usual public. Kind of an early COPO car.

Thanks for sharing!! Add that to the list of things I learned here everyday!!

 

[Dave6T4]

As a point of history, the Buick Century series was created by combining the shorter and lighter Special chassis, which had a smaller, less powerful eight cylinder, with Buick's most powerful version from the larger Roadmaster. This tradition started in 1936. The Century name was chosen because this was the first reasonably priced standard automobile that could travel at a sustained 100 mph., making it a favourite of criminals and police alike. I would venture to say that this was GM's first Musclecar, not the GTO.

 

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California Highway Patrol special ordered 1955 and 1956 Buick Century 2- sedans from GM for pursuit use. The Century chassis used the bigger 322 V-8 with 4-bbl. carb. The 2-door sedan body was lighter than the usual hardtop body. This variant was only available to CHP, and not the usual public. Kind of an early COPO car.

My dad had a 55 Buick and it had a Roadmaster engine in it. I have no memories of it other than him talking about taking it to Black Hills Speedway. At that time you could open the gate and drive on the track if you wanted to

 

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If it would just stop raining for a bit, then we could relax a little!
But not going to happen, so we are stuck inside painting.
Car, COOL; interior walls, not so much.

 

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My first car was a 55 buick special riviera in tri-tone green, like this-

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"riviera" meant that it was a post-less hardtop instead of a sedan.
264 nailhead with a 2 speed trans that had a factory variable pitch stator/converter.



Could never find a fuel pump so I rigged that glass washer bottle to feed into the carb.
Got me half way to HS, where I'd put a quart or so in at a gas station.
Never could find a master cylinder either, so vise-grips on the parking brake kind of did the job.