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The Buick Electra is a full-size luxury car manufactured and marketed by Buick from 1959 to 1990, over six generations. Introduced as the replacement for the Roadmaster lines, the Electra served as the flagship Buick sedan line through its entire production and was offered as a two-door sedan, two-door convertible, four-door sedan, and five-door station wagon.
The Limited name was used again in 1967 as a trim option on the Electra 225 Custom model and other models. Between 1971 and 1979, Buick added the "Limited" name to its top trim Electra 225, which was previously known as the Electra 225 Custom. The cars were not badged as Electra 225s, but instead wore "Limited" scripts.
1971 – 1973 Buick Centurion; 1977 – 1978 Buick Riviera; The single longest-produced GM platform to date. 1993 Buick Roadmaster. B II: RWD: 1991: 1996: 1991 – 1996 Buick Roadmaster; 1991 – 1996 Chevrolet Caprice; 1991 – 1992 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser; 1994 – 1996 Chevrolet Impala; The successor to the B I platform. 1959 Buick Electra ...
This is a list of vehicles marketed by the Buick division of General Motors, ... Electra E5: Electra E5: ... (1971–76) 3 Full-size station wagon ...
The 1971 to 1976 Estates were the first Buick station wagons to be built on GM longest chassis since the Roadmaster Estates of 1947–53. The Estate shared its 127.0-inch (3,230 mm) C-body wheelbase with the Electra 225, while all 1971–76 GM wagons were B-body-based per model numbers. [16]
The Buick Park Avenue is a full-size car built by Buick. The nameplate was first used in 1975 for an appearance option package on the Electra 225 Limited . It became an Electra trim level in 1978 and its own model starting in the 1991 model year after the Electra was discontinued.
The 322 Fireball V8 in a 1956 Buick Century. Buick's first generation V8 was offered from 1953 through 1956; it replaced the Buick straight-eight.While officially called the "Fireball V8" [1] by Buick, it became known by enthusiasts as the "Nailhead" for the unusual vertical alignment of its small-sized valves (Originally it was known to hot-rodders as the "nail valve", because the engine's ...
It was known as the Dauntless V6 and used a much heavier flywheel than the Buick version to damp the vibrations resulting from the engine's firing pattern. Buick sold the tooling for this engine to Kaiser in 1967, as the demand for the engine was waning steadily in an era of V8s and muscle cars.