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The Official Buick Homepage
The Bombsight - a Buick Collector's Resource Pages
Jeff's Garage - covers 1968 and 1969 Buick GS
The Buickgod Network - Very well put together site regarding everything to do Buick.
BuickStreet.com - BuickStreet.com is an amazing showcase of spectacular sclassic Buicks, fascinating owner stories, Buick links, old road tests and much much more.
Buick Performance Group - The Buick Performance Group is a non-profit membership organization dedicated and devoted to the performance, preservation, maintenance, restoration and racing of Buick powered performance cars. The BPG offers a member focused, family oriented community and encourages and promotes the sharing of information, development of new products, and open participation and interaction between all members.
PreWar Buick Site - Celebrate Buicks built from 1904 to 1942, and their owners. While the site is noncommercial, it does refer and recommend quite a few vendors of parts, literature and advice.
The Buick Parts Directory - The website is here to help you in your search for the right parts for your Buick, no matter what it is. It is my understanding that some parts are not made anymore, but it doesn't mean that they can't be found. The BPD is here to provide you with a means to search for the parts you need and to keep you from aimlessly clicking on links that may or may not get you where you want to go.

http://buicks.net/index.php

BUICK CLUBS

The Riviera Owners' Association - Founded in 1984 with over 3250 members worldwide.
1929 Silver Anniversary Buick Club - Founded in 1987. 300 members. Ownership or interest in 1929 Buicks preferred.
Buick GS Club of America - Founded 1982, 5000 members. Dedicated to Buick owners who enjoy the performance of their cars. Emphasis is on racing as well as showing. Open to all Buick performance enthusiasts.
1937-38 Buick Club - The 1937-1938 Buick Club is an international organization founded in 1980 to help restore and preserve 1937 and 1938 Buicks.
Buick Performance Club - This club is about performance Buicks and our motto is show, go and resto! The club is here to promote Buicks, share information among owners and prospective owners.
Buick Grand National Racing Association - We are a club of about 500 + Members dedicated to the V6 Buick Turbo cars with General Meetings, Tech Sessions, Car shows & 1/4 Mile drag races we also produce a club Newsletter called "TURBO BOOST"
http://www.yesterdays-cars.com/Buick_clubs.htm
http://www.gnttype.org/general/clubs.html

BUICK PART DEALERS & GOS SUPPORTERS

The following is a list of some of the dealers you will find in our Buick book. These are some of the most reputable AND nicest people that you're going to deal with in your search for parts. Why is that? Because they're nice enough to tell you about us which is basically like giving you a book of their competition. They do it for the good of the hobby. Don't you wish everyone was this nice?

There are literally hundreds of other companies listed in our book. We can't promise that the dealers listed below will have what you're looking for but if you can't find everything you need with our book within 30 days, we will completely refund your money.

When you contact these dealers, please let them know we sent you. We'd appreciate the plug and SOME DEALERS GIVE A DISCOUNT TO OUR CUSTOMERS!

If you would like to have your company listed on this page or other pages just do what these other companies have done. Let your customers know about the Garden of Speedin'!

Mike's Auto Parts
cmpparts@yahoo.com
Box 358, Ridgeland MS 39158
601-856-7214
4,000 NOS part numbers in stock for all American makes & models 1920-1985.
NOS & used. Collectibles too! Oil cans, signs, wall calendars, soft drink
bottles, etc.
Kirban Performance Products, Inc.
sales@kirbanperformance.com; email: sales@kirbanperformance.com
6141 Kellers Church Rd Unit B PO Box 1199
Plumsteadville PA 18949
Parts bought and sold for Buick Grand Nationals. Sells over 300 parts.
Monthly publication available.
Cars Inc.
http://www.oldbuickparts.com
205 Pearl St.
Neshanic Station NJ 08853
Largest worldwide supplier of Buick Parts. Specializing in Buick since 1973.
Oil Filter Adapters
http://webpages.charter.net/dhomstad/index.htm E-mail: Dhomstad@charter.net
7220 Upper 164th St.
Rosemount, MN 55068
Oil filter adapters to replace your messy and leaky old canister with modern
efficient spin-on filters! Current applications for 1949 to 1959 Buick,
Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and GMC Trucks.
Faxon Auto Literature
http://stores.ebay.com/Faxon-Auto-Literature
3901 Carter Ave.
Riverside CA 92501
Phone: 800-458-2734
World's largest selection of factory automotive manuals & literature. Call us toll free at (800)458-2734 for even more books from our 14,000 sqft. warehouse. Find the best manuals & literature for your vehicle.

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BUICKS IN THE WORLD OF...

Television

In a commercial during the all star game (basketball), 4 basketball players get a phone call about a lame basketball game and the 4 pro players pile into a '73 Riviera to help the game out. (Submitted by Chris Barton)
There's a new series of Nike television ads which feature a '71 Riviera. (Submitted by Chris Barton)
On "Chips," there was a '71 boatail Riviera. (Submitted by Chris Barton)
A 1961 Buick Special was used in the Shannon TV series, starring George Nader, early in the 60's years. (Submitted by Philippe Gusmao)
In late 96' or early 97', MTV was running a promo with an out-of-shape '68 convertible Skylark. (Submitted by MajKemper@aol.com)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno originally opened with a montage of LA, which featured Jay turning onto the NBC Burbank Studio Lot driving what appeared to be a two tone red & white '55 or '56 Buick Century or Roadmaster convertible. (Submitted by Sherman Ward)
During the beginning of the old show Hill Street Blues, they show a 1972 Skylark parked on the street as a police car races around the corner. (Submitted by Brad Rezac)
Brodrick Crawford, in the 60's TV show Highway Patrol, drove a
Buick and made the term "10-4" famous. This is why October 12th is National Brodrick Crawford Day. (Submitted By Tom Sansbury)

Music

We currently do not have any songs about Buicks, but we welcome your submissions

Celebrity Owners

Mostly 60's British Singer Dusty Springfield was a proud owner of a 1964 Buick Riviera. (Submitted by John Kooyman)

Movies

A Corot Beige '38 Special Sidemounted Convertible Coupe Model 46C appears in the classic 1940 movie "The Grapes of Wrath"... There is also a black '38 Roadmaster Phaeton Model 80C in the film. (from Torque Tube, the news publication for members of the 1937-38 Buick Club)
A '38 80C also appears in the 1940 W.C. Fields movie, "The Bank Dick." (from Torque Tube)
"The Ice Storm" has some nice shots of a 1971 Riviera. (Submitted by Sugi)
In Steven Seagal's movie "Out For Justice" they used a Grand National in a chase scene and even tried to call it a GNX. (Submitted by Steve Roberts)
In "Breaking Away" the kids cruised around town in a '70 -'72 Skylark coupe. A beater but still a Buick. (Submitted by Steve Roberts)
In one of the first scenes when "Jim Douglas" takes the VW out for a ride and is about to merge onto the freeway. "Herbie" balks and gets the shakes he then reverses and hightails it off the onramp cutting off a white '65 Riviera in the process. (Submitted by Chris Barton)
"Last Boy Scout" with Bruce Willis used a '72 Riviera. (Submitted by Chris Barton)
The movie "Excess Baggage" with Alicia Silverstone has a 72' Riviera. (Submitted by Chris Barton)
There is a Buick convertible in "Rainman." Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise crossed the country in it....looked like a mid 50's roadmaster, ventiports and all.... (Submitted by Brian Quinn)
The two youths in "My Cousin Vinnie" were in a '64 or so mint green skylark convertible (withOUT positrac as we found out later!!) When they were confused with "the murderers" in a similar Pontiac Tempest, getting themselves on trial for the murder of the convenience store clerk, Joe Pesci shows up with Marisa Tomei in his early 70's cadillac convertible to defend them....Marisa won the best supporting actress oscar for her role in this movie....memorable lines: "Oh, yeah, you blend!!" and: "My biological clock is tickin' like a time bomb, here!!" (Adam adds, "It's YOUTS not youths!") (Submitted by Brian Quinn)
There is a beautiful '49 Roadmaster that was the star of the MGM film (probably shot in '95) with Nick Nolte, Chaz Palmenteri, Michael Madsen,& Chris Penn....."Mulholland Falls". The car is black with red leather interior, and a tan convertible top with maroon piping. She is the quintessential Harley Earl chrome battle-wagon. (Submitted by (and car owned by) Sherman Ward)
The Oscar winning "Rainman" featured a creamy pale yellow '49 Roadmaster. Dustin even states some facts and figures for us......."only 8091 production models built......" & the classic " ....straight 8....Fireball 8.....". The video version of this film has an interesting trailer produced by Buick featuring Anthony Edwards delivering the introduction of this film. He walks and talks through a couple of different models and then presents the car from the film. Buick apparently bought sponsorship of the release of this movie on video. (Submitted by Sherman Ward)
In "Pleasantville," the car that the central family unit of the plot owns is a beautiful 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Because of the "no color" storyline, you can't really appreciate how gorgeous this car is. But, there is a big scene in which things start to "come to life," and they reveal this brilliant yellow Roadmaster tooling along down a beautiful country road.......and man, oh man....what a car!!!!!!!! (Submitted by Sherman Ward)
In the movie "Escape from L.A." The "king" of the city tools around in a '59 Buick with chandaleirs hanging on it! (Submitted by Ron Smith)

Name Origins

Buick derived from a Scottish Immigrant, David Dunbar Buick whose company originally made engines. After a couple cars had been made and several owners later, the company was eventually sold to the founder of GM, William Durant. (Submitted by Patrick)

Other

Stephen King's book From a Buick 8 features an alienesque 1954 Buick 8 Roadmaster that has very strange things coming out of it's trunk. (Submitted by Patrick)
Wildcats is a movie about football that includes Woody Harrelson trying to rap. I'm not sure if there's actually a Buick in it. (Submitted by Adam Gimbel)
Karl Shapiro wrote a fine poem in 1953 entitled Buick that portrays his "ride" as a sensuous woman. (Submitted by Jerry Gronksy)
The '49 Roadmaster was featured on the cover of Forbes published, "American Heritage of Invention and Technology". (Submitted by Sherman Ward)