2X BUICKS !! 1941 Buick Roadmaster 76s Coupe + 1948 Buick Roadmaster 2 doors serie 79, convertible

Car no 1.

1941 Buick Roadmaster 76s Coupe ***one price two cars, both cars in Excellent conditions***

Engine : 320 cu in (5.2 L) Fireball I8, 168hp

Transmission : 3-speed sliding shift manual

Wheelbase : 126.0 in (3,200 mm)

Length 1941 : 215.0 in (5,461 mm)

Sold : 3.991 units

The Roadmaster Series 76s, featured a cutting-edge "torpedo" C-body. The new C-body that the 1940 Buick Roadmaster shared with the Super Series, the Cadillac Series 62, the Oldsmobile Series 90.

The new 320 cu in Fireball engine delivered 168 horsepower. With five more horsepower than a senior Packard, 15 more than any Cadillac, and 25 more than the largest Chryslers, it was the most powerful engine available that year on an American car.

Bootlegging and NASCAR;

To elude federal Prohibition agents, sheriffs and cops on the road, these daring “runners” needed sharp driving skills to speed and maneuver along dirt, gravel, single-lane, and occasionally, paved roads after dark and at times with their headlights turned off.

Even before Prohibition came to an end in 1933, racing these high-performance cars (Ford V8, Buick 8 and Cadillac) became a popular pastime among the “runners” in the South. They raced each other’s cars, on weekend afternoons out in the country on makeshift dirt tracks. Such were the bootlegger roots of the stock car, and what would evolve into the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, or NASCAR, in 1947.

The Bootlegging Car;

The idea was fairly simple – take a car that looked ordinary on the outside, modify the engine for greater speed, remove the floor boards, passenger and back seats to store as many cases of liquor as possible, install extra suspension springs to handle the weight, a dirt-protecting plate in front of the radiator and run the prohibited booze to customers by outsmarting or outrunning the authorities. The trunks where enormous, capable of holding 100-132 gallons of moonshine either in carefully-packed jars or gallon-size tins.

Even when purely stock, the Buick Roadmaster provided an extremely stable ride due to its torsion bar, a wanted characteristic for bootleggers navigating moonlit red-dirt switchbacks with 160 gallons of highly-flammable liquid in their trunks. and swicth offback braeklights !!

Car no 2.

1948 Buick Roadmaster 2 doors serie 70 convertible, ***both cars in Excellent conditions***

Designer : Harley Earl

Body style : 2-door convertible

Engine : 320 cu in (5.2 L) Fireball I8

Transmission : 2-speed Dynaflow automatic

Wheelbase : 129.0 in (3,277 mm)

Length 1948 : 217.5 in (5,524 mm)

The 1948 Roadmaster was longer, lower, wider, and roomier than before (a Harley Earl trademark), thanks in part to a longer wheelbase. There was also a new vertical-bar grille and "Airfoil" fenders that swept back all the way to the rear fenders, which in subsequent generations became the chromed "Sweepspear". The Buick Roadmaster was fitted with the C-Body platform, basis for the top-of-the-line models of multiple General Motors divisions including the Oldsmobile 98 and Buick Electra, and the base model for multiple Cadillacs, including the Series 6200 Calais, the Series 6300 de Ville, the Series 6400 Eldorado, the Series 6000 Fleetwood Sixty Special and the Fleetwood Brougham.

The new 320 cu in. engine delivered 165 horsepower. With five more horsepower than a senior Packard, 15 more than any Cadillac, and 25 more than the largest Chryslers, it was the most powerful engine available that year on an American car.

Two excellent cars for one price,… "drives like a majestic steamboat on the highways"