Gary Miller's 1954 Buick Special 2-door hardtop full of iconic styling - www.insideottawavalley.com/
The massive vertical-tooth grille makes this car recognizable as a Buick from half a mile away. Note also the wide whitewalls, the full wheel discs with red rims, the sweep-spear side trim, and portholes on the sides of the front fenders, a Buick trademark since 1949. And under the hood of the 1954 Buick Special was a hot new V8 engine with... Gary Miller of Miller Shell service station just west of Leamington bought his Buick Special about ten years ago from a man in Jordan Station, Ontario, and the deal included a very rusty 1954 Buick Skylark convertible, so rusty in fact that the... That car donated its power steering unit to Gary’s ’54 Special and the Skylark later went to a collector in Sudbury who had six of them. The original 264 cubic inch V8 in Gary’s car has now been replaced by a 322 cubic inch ’56 Buick engine with 4-barrel carb that had been stored in a barn near Dorchester after being taken out of a ’47 Mercury hot rod 40 years ago. The engine had been very carefully stored and the skeleton of a mouse was found behind the water pump housing. Gary repainted the black wheel rims red as a finishing touch. Source: www.insideottawavalley.com
