1958 Buick Limited Convertible
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Here is a 1958 Buick Limited convertible. This is a very rare car all totally original. Is currently in the Tune Up Shop in Costa Mesa California for some minor repairs.We are making the throttle activated starter switch functional and overhauling the numbers matching carburetor. It will be perfect when we are finished. Directly following our repair it will be in the Balboa Island Parade.
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If you wanted all the glitz that your money could buy, you had it all right here! No doubts about it!
Imagine sitting behind the wheel, top down and driving it around town or on the road in 1958 when it was new wirh the top 20 tunes of day playing on the radio and your steady girl sitting beside you. 👍🏻😎
Absolutely the most beautiful car General Motors ever made.
Breathtaking!!!! Absolutely an amazing automobile. Beautiful color combination, stunning padded dashboard. Absolutely stunning!!!
I think the 58 limited is the best looking buick Ever made 😍
@aaronwilliams6989
3 жыл бұрын
One of the best. There were so many .
I have seen these in other videos and pictures but never in person-this is one of the best looking cars of the 50's and beyond...
My father owned a NEW '58 Limits hartop, Silver interior and exterior. I polished the car as a child. I took my first turns behind the wheel as a teenager.
As a kid of 13, when I first saw this car in the showroom I went crazy ! At the time it was unbelievable. No car had as much chrome on it as this one. It was a one of a kind ! Still quite beautiful ! Cars during this period were all steel. No fiberglass, or aluminum. They weighed a ton, but were solid ! It was during Detroit's hey day .👍
My father had one that was mint green. He loved it and he was actually late to his wedding to my mother because he was washing and hand waxing it! lol My mother always joked about it. ❤️
Nice video Grant. It just popped up as suggested video today. I saw a silver convertible one at a NY Buick show, as it was coming into the show a senior lady was sitting atop in a yellow poodle skirt waving. The year was 1992 and it was an amazing scene.
This BUICK Limited is simply INCREDIBLE!!! There is no word to describe BEAUTY and SHINE and SHAPE and.....Thanks for video, Grant - and enjoy your Buick, Martin
My brother had a 58 Buick Wagon, was a nice car!
That is one of the best-looking cars I've ever seen!!!
The color is absolutely spectacular, and so is every square inch of this rolling piece of art!
ABOVE & BEYOND GORGEOUS !!!! What a land yacht !! Buick at it's FINEST !! Even the size of the steering wheel is massive !!! This car HAS to be valued in excess of over 100k !!!
Absolutely gorgeous! TY for sharing.
Beautiful... the expression of 1950s American industrial and social confidence in steel and chrome. I love this era of automobile art- this definitely would *not* fit in my garage but I'm more than glad to admire it from afar (UK).
@michaelbenardo5695
2 жыл бұрын
Just have the garage enlarged! Life is short. ENJOY it!
I love this car, so pretty. And chrome for miles.
Gorgeous, Dad had a 61 curve and a quarter about that color.One sweet restoration!
About one of the best cars of the 50s! Thank god it has survived!
General Motors elegance comes shinning through on this baby. What a beautiful Buick and a spectacular color to show it off with. They have been labeled as chrome overkill, but in the Limited edition the side chrome is minimal and provides a beauty of lines to this wonderful car.
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
It actually has less than the lesser Buicks that year.
This Buick Limited has the MOST Chrome than any other GM or maybe any American Auto ever built. I purchased a highly optioned 2 dr Limited coupe from Pick and Pull in Stockton CA back in 1988. All it needed was a new radiator and battery..!! All the Buick collectors went crazy for it after an add in Hemmings MN.
@davidkastin4240
5 жыл бұрын
Buicks always have had the most chrome and still do. ✌
BEAUTIFUL, beautiful car! They sure knew how to build them back then. Lots of style!
@michaelboerio8835
4 жыл бұрын
TexasDog3 You're right the cars of my childhood were unique . Not like today's cookie cutter , look alike cars I'm 69 and my first cars was a 1964 falcon 2 door hardtop Sprint ,4 speed
Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? Was Buick's slogan sometime during the late 60's, early 70's I believe. I remember seeing a couple of these when I was a kid in the early 60's. 👍🏻😉
I saw one of these at a dealer in Falmouth,Mass. on the very day they were first shown to the public. I loved it then and I love them now. Beautiful.
@grantburris
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comments, Norman. These were truly a unique vehicle. Still are.
Wow SO rare.. I've wanted to see one of these since I was 15 and still haven't been able to actually see one in person.. And 15 was many many years ago for me.
The Chrome King! And that's the most perfect example I've ever seen.
They drove and rode really nice.
My brother owned a '58 Roadmaster 2 dr htp. It had a coral painted body and a copper roof. Harley Earl was quite the designer.
That car should be the center piece in an Art Gallery.
Great looking car ! I've always wondered why all of the auto makers went to similar huge aggressive grills for 1958 only.
Love the soft metallic blue paint
What a magnificent Buick! The car is just stunning!
@grantburris
8 жыл бұрын
+michael cerza Thank you, Michael.
@keithdukes5990
Жыл бұрын
In many Ways America's too!😁👍
Yes the bean pod like cars of styling in colors of your choice today of either black, silver or white, is a complete and opposite departure from this era of form & function. To appreciate this era and truly appreciate this car is to fully understand it as an art form of craftsmanship. Excessive .... compared to what and in what measure? This car is in this day and age of monolithic monotones, for today an almost incomprehensible manifestation of creative unique possibilities of open minded styling and function should be viewed and and appreciated as such.
Absolutely Beauuuuuutiful!!❤️
Absolutely gorgeous, simply dripping with chrome and 10" longer than a regular Buick to boot! Rear fin and taillight assembly quite fascinating. Very modern kind of futuristic styling that stands the test of time and only gains in appreciation with the passing years.
@clarkeshivers7036
6 жыл бұрын
I agree. Even though these cars went quickly out of style, it remains as a timeless representation of the era.
@JohnALane-hx4ke
5 жыл бұрын
Yes and in those times ugly interiors were almost unknown. Everything is black, gray, brown interior today. Beautifup exteriors were great. But where live is in the interior, why in most choices would I want those ugly colors? I prefer Red or Blue or white. etc. The cars of the fifties and sixties made feel good and proud.
@larryhawkins3294
5 жыл бұрын
Suprised that this car has roll up windows I thought power windows and 2 way power bench seat came standard on these cars.
@allenwayne2033
4 жыл бұрын
It has power windows. The crank on the door panel is for the vent window. The power window switches were located below the A-pillar, just in front of the door.
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
@@JohnALane-hx4ke The 50s and 60s were the heyday of great styling. Even those that were flops style-wise, like 49 - 52 Chrysler products, are far better looking than today's horrors.
You look at cars like this and wonder how they can get away with producing the crap they do today! Cars of this era were works of art!
@chieftp
8 жыл бұрын
+kdm71291 works of art? yes, they were pretty. they also rusted out in three years, had to have something adjusted, rebuilt or replaced every 3,000 miles and would kill you instantly if you had a wreck. but they sure were pretty.
@kdm71291
8 жыл бұрын
chieftp A can agree, in part, with what you are saying, but there needs to be some context applied to your statements. The rusting you mention (which I feel may be an exaggeration) would generally apply to vehicles in areas where salt is applied to roads to keep them from icing in the winter. Even in warmer coastal southern California, unless you drive and store your car consistently within a half mile of the ocean, you are not likely to suffer from excessive early corrosion. I feel that having to adjust, rebuild or replace parts every 3,000 miles is probable also an exaggeration. This depends greatly on driver tendencies and behavior, and when such work DID need to be done, many owners could do much of the work themselves or when they DID take it to a shop, the costs were comparatively low due to the relative ease of labor. "kill you instantly"? Well, that may actually be a blessing, in some cases. But this also depends, to a large degree, on what you hit! ;-) (and if you're wearing a seatbelt, which are a requirement today, even in classics that didn't originally come equipped with them).
@chieftp
8 жыл бұрын
kdm71291 cars in the 50s and 60s rusted out the second you drove them off the lot, even in the south. they were engineered to turn to crap as soon as possible. they wanted you to buy a new car every 2 years. brakes, tires, plugs, wires, hoses, radiator flushes, transmission service all had to be done 6 times as frequently as newer vehicles. the cars were designed 100% with "style" and power (lack of efficiency) in mind. safety was at the absolute bottom of the list. the cars didn't have crumple zones or structural integrity to protect you in a crash like newer vehicles. but they sure were pretty and shiny back in the old days.
@1940limited
5 жыл бұрын
@@chieftp There's no such thing as a dangerous car, it's a dangerous driver. Rust depended on what part of the country you lived in. Rebuilt or replaced every 3000 miles is a bit of a stretch.
@1940limited
5 жыл бұрын
@@chieftp I'll still take one over a new car.
THIS CAR IS THE BADDEST METALLIC BLUE BUICK CONVERTIBLE EVER
Stunning. Never heard of or seen (saw?) this car before. Art on wheels.
Very stunning, just flat beautiful. Thanks for sharing, sweet.
The amount of chrome is hysterical Jay Lenno described gm as putting chrome on with a trowl in the late 50s and I would say this car sums that statement up pretty well
This shit is artwork . Incredible . I grew up Motown . Awesome . It's in my blood ....
Look at that gorgeous chrome those tail finns are stunning this is when you got more car for less money this car will turn some heads they make nothing today even close to this work of art
STUNNING
Love those old cars style colors trims
Now, THAT is a Buick, not that stuff they're making now.
@garymckee8857
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@davidallen5776
3 жыл бұрын
I'll say!
@sprague49
3 жыл бұрын
Opel's ain't Buicks!
Thanks my Friend. Very nice you car!
No one word to describe its beauty
Stunning. great post. thanks
Extremely rare I don't think I've ever seen one in person
Love those tail fins!
I remember seeing a pink one when I was a kid.
A work of art!
A work of art!!
@grantburris
3 ай бұрын
Thank you Chester. I always thought so too. I was working for Buick when they were introduced.
That's Class plain and simple
I saw so many of these beautiful machines on the streets & roads as a kid. By the time I could drive, so many were gone..... 😢 If only today's so called engineers could build reproductions with modern technology.
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
They easily could, but the yuppies and techies, the bulk of the car-buying public today, would refuse to buy it. But modern technology? HECK NO! A car that you can fix in your driveway is way WAY better than one that you have to bring to a shop and spends thousands to fix.
Sweet with a double e for enormous bumpers.
Beautiful, indeed!
Such a gorgeous car, Beautiful restoration, but It doesn't even have power windows.
Beauuuuutiful Car!!💕
In the My Car Stories videos, the host visits a private collection in Newfoundland. Other cars from the collection have been in videos. In the first video the host, who has sees the best in classic cars, saw a triple black, 1958 Buick Limited convertible in the collection. It was a beautiful car. The host remarked he had not seen one since the '50s.
@larryhawkins3294
4 жыл бұрын
I doubt that Lou Costable was on thi earth in 58.
Fantastic Car! I LOVE IT!!!
love this car
piece of art
AWESOME CAR... IT'S CUTE...
Good for you but apparently so have I. Did my first one in 1964 as well. Have owned over 5 different 1957 Buicks since then and own 2 1957 Roadmasters today. It is a matter of course of disassembly, cleaning and sourcing parts if and when needed. But quite frankly, it is the old grease and the moisture that causes most of the problems. But now, let us not condemn the fine Buick engineers for the drum instead of the needle. Cheers
FANTASTIC
beautiful car 👌👌👍👍👍
What a beautifull car!!!
Muinto show esse carro, simplesmente lindo
Very beautiful car however, IMHO the prettiest 1958 GM car was Oldsmobile. Gorgeous! Thank you for the video, I enjoyed it very much.
The only thing that would have made it better would have been to open the hood.
@markdodd1152
4 жыл бұрын
And show us the interior better especially the dash
Love it!
My dad owns one its beautiful
this gem was created before those wussy dorks in Detroit ever thought of rubber bumpers, and plastic headlights! this was the Brontosaurus of the Chrome Age!
Beautiful
I always loved the 58 Buick, especially this model, but they were not all that well received. People were mad that the "Cruiser Line Ventiports" were gone. They felt that it didn't look Buick enough. Ditto the 59, so they were back for 60.
It Speaks For Itself : I AM A LUXURIOUS ROAD MASTER !!!
I had a 1957 Pontiac Starfire convertible in high school. Green and cream.
@larryhawkins3294
4 жыл бұрын
You mean a Pontiac Starchief. Starfire is a top of the line full sized Oldsmobile designation.
Seeing the engine and trunk would have been nice.
The car has the face of a Lion!
Beast!!!
Beauty
They still got pictures of the fins on this car in the modern Buick dealership
i have seen at least one of these cars years ago
I love bel-air & chevy but I rather drive an classic Buick, Oldsmobile or Cadillac.
I really miss those color-keyed interiors. My father's 1962 Impala was white with a red interior, as was my 1989 Dodge Spirit. Now all of the interiors are neutral-colored and bland.
Машина супер
An extremely rare car. I've searched on the net, looking for the engine size and options available for this beauty, and can't find them, most articles I've found talk about the unique exterior of the car and not much else. Does anyone know about the car's engine and it's options?
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
This car came with a 364 cube "Nailhead" V8 with a 4 barrel and dual exhausts. 300 horsepower. The Special, the "small and cheap" Buick, had a 2 barrel and a single exhaust for 250 horsepower. That Special is still a big, heavy, fairly pricey car.
Sweet
My brother had a 5 Buick wagon, great car! He had the ribbon speedometer like this one, is it stuck at 30mph?
You dont need to look futher, check out Sweden we have several in show conditions!
If I understood correctly the 1958 Buick Limited sported the most chrome ever apparent to any pristine auto body to come out of Detroit.
@shwt121
6 жыл бұрын
DetroitLove4U and then, the following year had 'crosseyed' headlights- go figure !!!!!
@MrGTO-ze7vb
5 жыл бұрын
you are 100% correct.. the most chrome ever put on a factory build
@dougoverhoff7568
4 жыл бұрын
@@MrGTO-ze7vb Just an aside, my father's first official year as a Buick dealer was 1958, and....his initials were GTO! I'm not sure we ever had one like this car, it's absolutely gorgeous, but I do remember the limiteds, they were the tops!
@MrGTO-ze7vb
4 жыл бұрын
@@dougoverhoff7568 Very cool... he should of opened a Pontiac Dealership..!
@dougoverhoff7568
4 жыл бұрын
@@MrGTO-ze7vb Funny you should say that, because he was offered a Cadillac/Pontiac dealership, but turned it down, so he almost was a Pontiac dealer. Big mistake, I always thought. Anyway, I always thought those were cool initials for a guy in the auto business. Some people even called him by his initials, those who knew him personally, at least. I always loved the car, btw.
Quite the head turner, alright.
869 Limited Convertibles were made. It was the most expensive GM vehicle!
@dlwatib
5 жыл бұрын
Silly comment. Of course it wasn't. In 1958 that honor would have to go to the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. www.mcsmk8.com/58-CAD/58-ELDO.HTM
Beautiful! Interesting that there are no portholes.
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
That was one of the things that cost Buick sales that year. 59 also.
My family has one in Cuba, it is a special 1958 Buick with a hardtop, it is still a beautiful car and we are missing a chrome for covers the front passenger headlight, which is the same as that car, where could I find it, thanks.
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
How I wish I could go to Cuba.
How much chrome does a car need? Those fins are super...you could shave with those beauties. What is the curb weight of this monster? Too bad there were no engine shots..all in all...Stellar!
You could not find a car of this caliber in this condition today they do not exist all the owners have these cars put away very well-maintained interior and exterior. Vintage rarely seen in public very wellbeing maintenance 👨🔧 storages durlast GoldCoastFCU A1
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
Yes you can find them if yo look hard enough.
Absolutely stunning, but in my humble opinion they didn't use quite enough chrome. 😀
@williamowens5542
5 жыл бұрын
There wasn't any more left.
@michaelbenardo5695
10 ай бұрын
The lesser models had more.