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1930 Buick Series 60 Special

 

The 1930 Buick Series 60 had a 132-inch wheelbase and was equipped with an inline-6 cylinder engine that it shared with the Series 50. It had overhead valves, a 331.4 cubic-inch displacement, four main bearings, mechanical valve lifters, a Marvel carburetor, and delivered 99 horsepower at 2,800 RPM. The Series 40 had a 257.5 CID inline-6 with 80 horsepower. Both versions of the six-cylinder engine used a three-speed sliding gear transmission with multiple disc clutch and floor shift controls. Mechanical, internal expanding brakes on all four wheels provided the stopping power.

 

All 1930 Buick vehicles received a new dash panel with the instrumentation being both indirectly and directly lighted.

 

Body styles on the 1930 Buick Series 60 included a Sport Roadster with rumble seat priced at $1,585, Deluxe Coupe at $1,965, a seven-passenger phaeton at $1,595, a coupe at $1,740, sport sedan at $1,760, a seven-passenger sedan at just over $1,900, and a limousine at $2,070. The sport roadster with rumbleseat was a new body style, joining on January 1st of 1930. The most popular body style was the sport sedan with 12,508 examples built, followed by 10,216 of the coupe, 6,583 of the sedan, 5,370 of the DeLuxe Coupe, 2,006 of the Sport Roadster, 807 of the phaeton, and 690 off the limousine. The combined 38,180 examples of the Series 60 accounted for approximately twenty-one percent of Buick's total 1930 production.

 

Source: www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z13860/buick-series-60.aspx

 

 

This finely crafted 1930 Buick recorded at “The Meadows” cruise show, Rolling Meadows, IL. - June 3, 2022.

 

 

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