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1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door, 6-Passenger Sedan, Customised, “651 UXM” (2)
Front-quarter onside view of a 1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door, 6-Passenger Sedan; Customised, model code [4419], one of 8,286 examples built. Age-related six-character registration “651 UXM”.
Back in 2018 I snapped this brutal 1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door Customised Sedan outside the famous Mathewson’s auction house in Thornton-Le-Dale, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, U.K. (around the time the first season of the popular TV series was being filmed). This jet age-styled car was by far the most radical vehicle on auction that day.
This Bad-To-The-Bone Buick, registration “651 UXM” had been in the U.K. for quite a while, and had received some interesting custom work, including aftermarket alloy mags, removed door handles, missing some chrome trim, and its front bench seat was a replacement which might’ve come from a pickup truck. The car was painted in a shade of Kustom “Matte Black” respray, underneath a glossy “Glacier Green” roof. At the time the car was up for auction, it still had its original (possibly tuned) 6.0-Litre, 250-HP, 363.5-CID “Nailhead Wildcat” OHV V8, column-mounted 3-Spd helical M/T, and an (assuming) original 3.58:1 ratio live rear axle hypoid differential. The car required some mechanical attention, including new brakes. The chrome bumpers were quite badly pitted, too. However, the rest of the car seemed pretty solid and complete. This Buick was purchased by an enthusiast who has since undertaken some much-needed recommissioning work.
1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door, 6-Passenger Sedan, Customised, “651 UXM” (2)
Front-quarter onside view of a 1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door, 6-Passenger Sedan; Customised, model code [4419], one of 8,286 examples built. Age-related six-character registration “651 UXM”.
Back in 2018 I snapped this brutal 1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door Customised Sedan outside the famous Mathewson’s auction house in Thornton-Le-Dale, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, U.K. (around the time the first season of the popular TV series was being filmed). This jet age-styled car was by far the most radical vehicle on auction that day.
This Bad-To-The-Bone Buick, registration “651 UXM” had been in the U.K. for quite a while, and had received some interesting custom work, including aftermarket alloy mags, removed door handles, missing some chrome trim, and its front bench seat was a replacement which might’ve come from a pickup truck. The car was painted in a shade of Kustom “Matte Black” respray, underneath a glossy “Glacier Green” roof. At the time the car was up for auction, it still had its original (possibly tuned) 6.0-Litre, 250-HP, 363.5-CID “Nailhead Wildcat” OHV V8, column-mounted 3-Spd helical M/T, and an (assuming) original 3.58:1 ratio live rear axle hypoid differential. The car required some mechanical attention, including new brakes. The chrome bumpers were quite badly pitted, too. However, the rest of the car seemed pretty solid and complete. This Buick was purchased by an enthusiast who has since undertaken some much-needed recommissioning work.