Registration - DVY 609 Chassis No. - 14438083 M.O.T. - Exempt Odometer - 45,000 With its red and white paintwork, white wall tyres, gleaming chrome and sleek, torpedo-shaped body, this 1948 Buick Roadmaster 75 Fastback is a real head-turner. The vendor acquired it in 1980 and says that it has been a show car, enjoyed on a few classic car runs each year. During this lengthy period of ownership ‘DVY 609’ has been recommissioned, including a respray, fresh upholstery and a new brake master cylinder. It is powered by Buick’s 320cid 3964 cc Fireball Dynaflash straight-eight engine, with a three-speed manual transmission with steering column-mounted gear lever. The view from the driver’s seat is quintessential 1940s America, with the white Tenite steering wheel, steel-faced radio and lights/heating controls. With bench seats front and back, this car can accommodate six people. The owner says that the car is in ‘excellent’ condition throughout, as one would expect from a show car. According to the GM Heritage Centre, the Roadmaster was Buick’s flagship sedan from 1936 to 1958. The 1936 Buick sales catalogue said that the Roadmaster ‘literally named itself the first time a test model levelled out on the open highway’. In 1940 the Roadmaster name was applied to the luxurious new Series 70, which by 1942 was offered with the option of the streamlined Sedanet fastback sported by ‘DVY 609’. Some Buick enthusiasts like to speculate that this design helped inspire the stunning Bentley Continental R Type fastback coupé which emerged from Crewe in the 1950s. In summary: • A glamorous, head-turning piece of post-War American motoring heritage • Recommissioned over the course of its 40-year tenure with the current owner