Hazy Buick memory (UPDATE III: export yes/not?)

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'Stay with me in Belgium!' That’s what this young lady seems to call out. Her pictures were found by Josef Kubišta from the Czech Republic. According to notes on the back they were shot during a Belgium trip in the summer of '32. Josef wonders if this Buick with registration number 191683 still exists somewhere. It could be a Standard Six 28-265 (four-passenger Country Club Coupe) as it looks a bit small to be Master Six 28-54C. Nevertheless the nickel plated headlight shells suggest it to be a Master Six model. We are sure it fits in somewhere in the 1924-1928 era... But please do correct us if we're wrong. No matter what the car is the, the young lady is sending you a a cheerful wave from a distant summer memory.

Update III from Mark Dawber: "most of the pictures I have seen of Buicks of this era supplied to the UK have no bumpers. I wonder if this car is a Canadian-built, UK-sourced car. I think that most of the Buicks sold in Europe were from Flint althouigh whether they were fully imported or locally assembeld I don't know. Often in NZ the bigger selling models - tourers etc - were locally assembled (assembly began here in 1927) and the less common coupes and big sedans were fully imported. Even though UK took its Buicks from Canada, NZ Buicks came from Flint. Disc wheels seem to be a rarely seen option but there were a few of them."
Update II comes from John MacKiernan: “It's a 1928 Coupe. Standard Six and Master Six both had nickel plated headlights. This looks like a Standard Six. Where are the factory installed bumpers? Standard Six had two bars; Master, three bars, which makes it easy to know which is which. As well as the absence of bumpers, the solid disc wheels are unusual. The several 1928 Buicks that I drove all had wood-spoked, artillery type wheels. Nice old picture!”
Update I by Hugh Nutting: “it is a 1928 Standard 2 pass. coupe. This type headlamp was only used in 1928.”

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