Today’s car is this elegant 1948 Buick Streamliner which is still as pleasing to the eye as it was back in the forties.
This 1948 Buick Streamline took two and half years to create and at a cost of $10,000 USD. The body was created entirely in aluminum and the shape was formed by hand over a traditional wooden buck.
At first the Streamliner was only used on the show circuit until Jim Davis of California bought it in 1952. He used it in and around Manhattan Beach, California and let Motor Life photograph it for a feature article.
In 2002 the car was discovered in the desert pretty much intact. It was bought at auction and restored by Dave Crouse at Custom Auto, Inc. in Loveland, Colorado for owners Gary & Diane Cerveny of Malibu, California.
After its “complete and exacting” restoration, it debuted at the 2010 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance.