PNDLR!
Dynaflow!
Vehicle Sighting - Early '50s Buick Roadmaster
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PNDLR!
Dynaflow!
Roadmasters were lovely cars. My favourites are the '58s - and silver would be my choice.
Oldsmobile developed the auto trannie but it appeared first in that Buick, no?
Silver with red leather interior?
My father had a 1940 Roadmaster that he drove up until 1955 or so, when it was totaled in a fender bender. I learned to drive on a 1951 Buick Special with three on the tree. Those cars had straight 8 engines with loads of torque at idle. You could put the car in gear and with no throttle, let out the clutch, and the car would pull right along. Great for parades and funeral processions.
Suspecting a straight-8, I wanted to pop the hood. Would have loved to see the engine!
Deserves a better fate that that...
Weren't the Dyna-Flow transmissions 2 speed?
Looks like a '49-'53
Either a 320 I8 or a 322 V8
Dynaflow was a terrible transmission, like a CVT, but worse
The Dynaflow was an automatic transmission used in various forms in Buick cars by the General Motors Corporation from 1947 until 1963. The transmission initially used a five-element torque converter, with two turbines and two stators, as well as a planetary gearset that provided two forward speeds plus reverse. In normal driving, Dynaflow started in high gear (direct drive)
The transmission was incapable of automatic shifting, requiring the driver to move the shift lever from low to drive to cause an upshift.
Dynaflow’s inefficiency earned Buick a reputation as a “gas hog” even when compared to heavy, powerful luxury cars of the 1950s and early 1960s. But at the time, gasoline was cheap and Buicks were upscale cars, so the "gas hog" reputation was not a serious sales deterrent.
Starred in Rough Magic and Rain Man
The fact that I've been called both is irony
It does deserve better than being left out in the snow
Either a 320 I8 or a 322 V8
Dynaflow was a terrible transmission, like a CVT, but worse
The Dynaflow was an automatic transmission used in various forms in Buick cars by the General Motors Corporation from 1947 until 1963. The transmission initially used a five-element torque converter, with two turbines and two stators, as well as a planetary gearset that provided two forward speeds plus reverse. In normal driving, Dynaflow started in high gear (direct drive)
The transmission was incapable of automatic shifting, requiring the driver to move the shift lever from low to drive to cause an upshift.
Dynaflow’s inefficiency earned Buick a reputation as a “gas hog” even when compared to heavy, powerful luxury cars of the 1950s and early 1960s. But at the time, gasoline was cheap and Buicks were upscale cars, so the "gas hog" reputation was not a serious sales deterrent.
Starred in Rough Magic and Rain Man
The fact that I've been called both is irony
It does deserve better than being left out in the snow
GM auto divisions were free to develop their own units separately from the Hydramatic Division.....For example, The Powerglide engineered by the Chevrolet Division.....The TH350 was joint engineered by Buick & Chevrolet Divisions.
Looks like a '49-'53
Either a 320 I8 or a 322 V8
Dynaflow was a terrible transmission, like a CVT, but worse
The Dynaflow was an automatic transmission used in various forms in Buick cars by the General Motors Corporation from 1947 until 1963. The transmission initially used a five-element torque converter, with two turbines and two stators, as well as a planetary gearset that provided two forward speeds plus reverse. In normal driving, Dynaflow started in high gear (direct drive)
The transmission was incapable of automatic shifting, requiring the driver to move the shift lever from low to drive to cause an upshift.
Dynaflow’s inefficiency earned Buick a reputation as a “gas hog” even when compared to heavy, powerful luxury cars of the 1950s and early 1960s. But at the time, gasoline was cheap and Buicks were upscale cars, so the "gas hog" reputation was not a serious sales deterrent.
Starred in Rough Magic and Rain Man
The fact that I've been called both is irony
It does deserve better than being left out in the snow
How do you know this stuff?
That may be a lot more than a standard Roadmaster, with the 2 door and the chrome trim it looks like it may be a Riviera Roadmaster, L8 engine, Dynaflow.
That thing is cool... needs a rescue...
The 3 and 4 holes represented the models place in the lineup not the number of cylinders. In later years they oblong slash panels eg the 76 Lesabre has 3 and the Electra had 4, both had 455 V8 engines. This for the 1955 models you can see plenty of V8 3 holers.
https://www.hometownbuick.com/buick-models/1955-buick-models/
https://www.hometownbuick.com/buick-models/1955-buick-models/
When I was a kid, an old man in town had a Buick like this, but it was a yellow convertible. On a nice summer day he would take all the town kids swimming at Ely lake. Some would ride in the trunk (held open by a 2 X 4). You would go to jail for that now.
The Buick has been sitting outside an indy Honda repair shop for a few weeks. The shop has a good reputation. I hope that means the car is going to get some TLC.
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