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English: A 1960 Buick Invicta Custom Estate Wagon at the 2024 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. Just shy of 300 built of these Western-themed special edition wagons, of which 6 are still known to exist, modeled on the 1959 Buick Texan show car. Bucket seats, power everything, walnut trim.
The Buick Invicta is a full-size automobile produced by Buick from 1959 to 1963. [1] The Invicta was a continuation of the mid-range Buick Century that mated the standard size Buick LeSabre (pre-1959, Buick Special ) body with Buick's larger 401 cubic inch Fireball V8 engine.
English: A 1960 Buick Invicta Custom Estate Wagon at the 2024 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. Just shy of 300 built of these Western-themed special edition wagons, of which 6 are still known to exist, modeled on the 1959 Buick Texan show car. Bucket seats, power everything, walnut trim.
In 1962 the Wildcat was a Buick Invicta subseries, mating the Invicta's longer full-size two-door hardtop Buick body (known as the "sport coupe", body production code 4647 hardtop only) [2] with a high-performance 325 hp (242 kW) version of the 401 cu in (6.6 L) Nailhead V8, known as the "Wildcat 445" for producing 445 lb⋅ft (603 N⋅m) of torque.
The appearance was shared with two other Buick models, the mid-level Invicta and the top model Electra. [2] While Invicta and Electra/225 models were powered by Buick's new 401-cubic-inch V8, LeSabre continued with the 364-cubic-inch V8 previously used in all Buicks in 1957 and 1958.
There were earlier but unconnected Invicta companies which made cars in Finchley, London from 1900 to 1905 and Leamington, Warwickshire, England, from 1913 to 1914. There was also an Invicta in Turin, Italy, in 1906. Buick Invicta was a General Motors product made from 1959 to 1963.
The Buick Limited was Buick's flagship model line between 1936 and 1942, and, in celebration of GM's Fiftieth Anniversary, a single-year halo car for the Division in model year 1958. Since the 1960s Buick has intermittently used the term "Limited" as a designation denoting its highest level of trim and standard features in its various model ranges.
Buick reintroduced the Century using the same formula of mating the smaller, lighter Buick Special body to its largest and most powerful 322 cu in (5.3 L) "Fireball" OHV V8 engine mated with a Dynaflow automatic transmission, with the intent of giving Buick a performance vehicle. Included in the model lineup during this period was a station ...