balthazar

I vote for keeping it as is.

Agreed. The OEMs push the ideal that every car / every buyer needs big alloy rims & huge integral 'infotainment' systems & backup cameras, and it's just not as unilateral as they want everyone to believe. But the Marketing Mill works 24/7.

^ Ya! It was optional on the LeSabre, but standard on the Invicta/Electra (I have an Invicta). Buick really used 3 emblems on the '59s : on the front (all series wore the hood emblem), and this on the deck: Note the family crest elements still incorporated here.

DDB was Scottish. The crest's elements, as depicted in the '37 emblem (the first year it was so used), were described in text in an 1851 edition of Burke's Heraldry. Harley Earl had instituted a research effort to discover DDB's possible family heraldry. Red shield, NW/SE diagonal silver & azure sash, stag head & cross with hole in it are the elements related to Buick. The '42 version is merely 'gussied up'. I should also take the moment to ensure than the '70s hawk did not replace the tri-shield on cars, but was heavily used in print/TV advertising in addition to the Tri-Shield. It's misleading IMO, because all the others are from the cars themselves. Well; 1960. Whoever compiled the graphic apparently was unaware of a little thing called 'model year'. The Tri-Shield appears no where on any MY 1959 advertising or the cars themselves, I can assure you.

^ Well, that 'update' of the 1960 logo would be the 1990 logo, no?

Has to have been sitting for decades outside. Floors are gone, bet the bed is too. Still, it's nothing that cannot be repaired, and on a desirable car. That said, the price is a bit high for the condition. Comps :: http://classicsplusauto.com/1959chevelcamino.htm http://woodstock-ct.americanlisted.com/cars/1959-chevrolet-el-camino_19202571.html http://www.classiccar.com/chevrolet/el-camino/chevrolet-elcamino_28743/?back=chevrolet%2Fel-camino

Some of Buick's logos over time : In general here tho, I prefer 'shield' emblems, such as the '39 and the '50. I have no problem with the current 'blank' one. Its very modern as is. I don't think adding color back in will do anything of measure.

This isn't a discussion of a new vehicle. It's a discussion of a vintage vehicle, and thusly, the so-called 'average customer' today isn't relevant here. It's just very left-field to constantly interject your interpretation of the 'average customer' into so many irrelevant conversations. This is a car enthusiast site, not Consumer Reports' forum. It's no different than bringing up the customer preferences of 1950 when discussing a camry.

Super clean, super original '64 Dodge Polara 2-dr hardtop, baby blue, cruisin' the highway.

If you don't care, why are you in here/ poking around the web on the issue? And why are you always 'speaking' for this "average person" demographic?

Ha- the cars on the AD have literally disintegrated. Check the pics of Miss Belvedere fresh from it's vault - this Elky is nothing like that car

^ Yes; there's a house I pass 5 minutes from me, they have a current mini & and old one parked side-by-side in the driveway, the old one is ridiculous. Tires look like 10"ers.

Far far worse have been brought back, it's not 'bad' from the one pic.

Ahh, misremembered the badge. Saw one last spring at the local swap meet. For some reason, they look far larger in pics than the actually are; tiny! I could use one as a spare tire for the B-59.

^ Wasn't King Midget from Cleveland? Trivan doesn't exactly look factory fresh in that shot, either. I've seen pics of this thing before. Moltie's right- there were a TON of independent micro-manufacturers in the '50s that certainly built some offbeat stuff.

Neato-torpedo. I spent some moments contemplating a '99 IHC at Hershey one year.

Here's another long-running example. Jag's sedan tail & marker lights : The marker light is typical period (and here I mean 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, creeping into the 1990s) body hardware from the Germans. Drill a hole for the wire, and screw a lense/ bezel/ rubber gasket to the fender, all with exposed screws. So-called 'German engineering' (or American engineering of the late 1940s/ early 1950s). The tail is another thing. You know Jag would've loved to possess the ability to run that taillight inner lower corner to a point, to follow the trunk lid seam. IIRC, the last generation of this body did just that, but it's clear to me that at the above point, it was beyond them. And again with the exposed screws. Bumper could work with the tails/bezel too, instead of just 'strap hanging' next to them.

MKZ sure has some spacey console in there. Is there any intended function to the lower area or no? I dunno, from the pics there are some interesting details there (needs some color contrast tho)... would have to see it in person.

Oh, I don't have time to take care of it cosmetically - I've never washed the undercarriage of any of my vehicles, nor clear drain holes, whathaveyou. There is some surface rust on the mechanicals (suspension, here & there... actually, I want to put it up on the lift and get under there for the first time soon), but GM does build a very well protected machine AFA this all goes. Feel free to retract your respect.

My '04 had zero body rust and it's been in central Jersey all it's 109K life.

http://southjersey.craigslist.org/cto/3404189130.html

Mom never bought us that sort of stuff; I may have had a single twinkie in my life.