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Originally Posted by YM-Mundrabilla
Vintage Buick outside the General Motors Office at Fishermens Bend, Melbourne.
I don't know if it was originally built like that or whether it is a restoration conversion.
I don't fancy those tyres in the wet or the dry. 
Not that this answers the above question, but my parents had a 1935 straight eight Buick sedan the body for which was built at Holden's Body Works in Adelaide (I think) but no idea whether the chassis and engine were built in the US or not. |
Buick were the first engine manufacturer to produce an overhead valve engine for use in a motor vehicle. All other engines were side valve designs. Buick marketed their famous straight eight engines as "valve in head." The valves had very small heads themselves, and some people called the engines "nail in head." The straight eight was a very smooth running engine, and was in production well into the late 1950's when Buick changed to the V8 configuration.