Buick Eight - Vintage Car

I was searching for the old Buick model car that I saw in the recent 2008 Trans Sport Show. Having to find out because my digital camera don’t focus that good enough unlike DSLR camera that I have before so I have a little blurry photos of it. Thanks that in my searching I was able to find Don Bagsit Multiply website where I was amazed about the entire picture he took during the 2008 Trans Sport Show. He also permitted me to use some of them for my future post.

I like vintage cars so much and if I have enough money, I will collect some more of it too. So one of the cars that captured me during the Car Show was the Buick Eight but I am not sure if the model displayed there is the 1952 Buick Eight Sedan because what I know the Buick Eight series model started in 1931 - 35. (Correct me if I’m wrong).

According to Wikipedia Buick originated as an independent motor car manufacturer, the Buick Motor Company, incorporated on May 19, 1903 by the Scottish-American David Dunbar Buick (who invented the overhead valve engine on which the company’s success was based) in Detroit, Michigan. Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting (1842-1919), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition. Buick sold his stock for a small sum upon departure, and died in modest circumstances twenty-five years later.

Durant was a natural, and Buick soon became the largest car maker in America. Using the profits from this, Durant embarked on a series of corporate acquisitions, calling the new mega-corporation General Motors.

Now Buick is a marquee of automobile only sold in the United States, Canada, China, Taiwan, and Israel by General Motors Corporation. The name is pronounced /ˈbjuːɪk/. Since the demise of Oldsmobile in 2004, it is GM’s only North America-based entry-level luxury brand.

So lucky if we can have Buick car now in the Philippines. Maybe if you have a lot of money and friends inside Bureau of Customs (but only if rumors are true) we might be able to obtain smuggled ones.