Hats off with regards to the workmanship that went into the 58 Roadmaster both by GM and the restoration team. That level of build was gone by the early 1960'ies. Well done.
My Mom had a ‘58 Buick Special 2-dr coupe very much like this car, only in powder blue. So I road in the back seat of that regularly from the time I was five ‘til I was fourteen. Good memories. Very large car!
The cord across the back of the front seat is a for a lap robe...a throwback to before automobiles had heating systems. Luxury cars had a place where a blanket or lap robe was hung so rear seat passengers could stay warm.
Very interesting....I always thought those cords were for older (not so nimble) folks to pull themselves forward from sitting all the way back in the seat, to help enable to position themselves to more easily exit the car :)
You are right about that, I had a Corvette Restoration business for 20 years and Chevys are super easy compared to this. 3500+ man hours! You have to be nuts to do this, but, I could not buy one like it so I realized the only solution was to build my perfect idealized tribute memory of my dads car. Certainly not a money making scheme 😝
Wonderful sir! Your dad would be proud. The strap on the back of the front seat is intended for ladies garments or blankets to hang so as not to sit on them. Back when we dressed to the 9s and not sweat shirts and hoodies. Anyway this has got to be a showstopper!
I sat here with a stupid grin across my face for every minute of this fantastic video. Thank you! A wonderful car from a positive and confident time that won't be seen again any time soon.
Absolutely stunning car that I have never seen, or known to be restored to such condition. The amount chrome is amazing & an absolute work of art that you get to drive. Thank you for taking the time to create & share your video on RUclips.
beautiful. I think the entire '58 GM line is in a class by itself, and this one is at the top of the heap. Senior Buick with same body as senior Olds and Cadillac. I own a '58 Fleetwood, and it's the same roof, and even makes the same squeak when opening the hood! spectacular effort in restoring this 'ol girl...thx for showing.
Unbelievably beautiful! What a labor of love! Absolutely love the car and your personal story makes it so much better! What an American treasure, the car and your dedication as well! 👍👏
My grandmother had one of these we lived in Oakland California. I was 7 years old and we drove it back to Lincoln Nebraska on Route 66 then up. The car had a warning buzzer that alerted you if you were going to fast that you could set. I remember him saying a few choice words because he kept setting it off so he turned it up all the way. I have a 1966 Buick Skylark convertible I just had a frame off restoration. Maybe we’ll meet at a show somewhere. Thanks for the memories.
My dad had a 58 Super. Loved that car. I remember you started it by pushing the gas pedal to the floor. It also had cloth interior but it had very narrow stripes in it.
The belt on the back of the seat is a holdover to Old Coach working days that would hold a blanket that would go across the knees of the people in the backseat
Absolutely gorgeous. What a work of American automotive art. The interior dash is museum quality. Good deal on your steering wheel re-cast. A/C? Yes please. Nice kleenex box. This is a beast of a beauty. Thanks for sharing your fix.
My father bought 1957 Olds 98, I could not take my eyes of all that chrome on the dash board. You are so lucky to have your Dads car, just like it rolled off the show room floor. Enjoy it for sure!
All the GM full size cars were very unique, one year only designs in 1958. Too bad the country was in a recession that year which greatly reduced the numbers produced. That’s a good thing if one is a collector… as the rarer the better. This is the best example of a ‘58 Roadmaster restoration I’ve ever seen! Thank you for sharing it. 👍👍👍
Nice and clean and those Buick doors shut like a bank vaults too. Fabrics courtesy of EMS by chance ? When I was a boy in the mid 50's to about the late 60's MY dad would buy Buicks about every two years too. But having 5 kids and a pocket change job he had to get his Buicks from salvage yards and keep them running until they had to be towed away when the next one arrived to take it's place. I also learned that just because a non radial bias tire was almost bare of tread just how far one could run a tire down to until you absolutely had to have it replaced as most defective tires go bad in their first few months and if the tread goes 1/2 to 3/4 they most likely will go to the threads. Sounds stark to you ? Well, having lived or existed thru the depression era he did what he could to get by and was a good man of solid character.
From the era when a country's economic confidence was written in steel and *chrome,* lots and lots of chrome. A new Buick every 2 years? The dealer must've been rubbing his hands! *Love* these pieces of American art- love to look at them and tip my cap to the dedication needed to restore and run them. Thank you.
What a marvelous autombile...as an 11 yr old in 1958, it always blew me away, to see a car which had power windows, power seats, and built in factory installed a/c...especially on anything but a Caddy...They were wondrous, and were the talk and star of the block/neighborhood :)...You must get a million comments from Boomers when out on display...Thanks very much for posting the vid...made my day!
58s had transmission problems in the big series so a lot of them were converted from Flight Pitch Dynaflow with "G" instead of "L" to Variable Pitch Dynaflow, as this car appears to have been. It's impossible to get parts for the Flight Pitch these days. GM offered a kit to do the job back in the day, but now you'd have to find a parts car. Part of the conversion involved changing the steering column and shift quadrant. Big series cars were also noted for braking control arms.
Beautiful automobile. My parents bought a 1950 Roadmaster not long after I was born. I learned to drive in that car. It was not as nice as this one but we made many trips in it and it was very smooth.
It's great to see 4 door cars restored, and this one is beyond perfect. I always loved '58 Buicks, we had an aunt and uncle with a black and white Special 4 door sedan. They traded it in for a '65 LeSabre Custom 4 door sedan.
White is perfect white for the hot tropical sun. Want to relocate it to the US Virgin Islands? Pay the cost of transportation and a storage unit and I’ll have it all washed and ready to fo when you want to do some very scenic short driving trips. An excellent retirement plan, isn’t it? You only live once. 😄 I’m Rob Kunkel, St. Thomas, ready, willing and able.🌴💐
Noice!!! Loved all that chromed out dashboard! As a kid I sat in my father's Buick and just gawked at that dash for hours. Then I discovered the cigarette lighter,.......dad was not happy..lol R.I.P. Dad....
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Our dad was a salesman so we never had a car too long but he bought a ‘58 Roadmaster and we kept that for ten years. I just took it for granted. It was just a car to me because we kept it until it was done. I think mom got $150 for it.
I am fortunate. Also, I am old, I rode in my 1958 2dr hardtop when it was new. My aunt and uncle bought it in Flint Michigan where it was made. They put 4700 (47 hundred) miles on it and uncle saw the 1959 and had to have a bright red 59 convertible. So my mom bought the car in 1959 and decided it was too big due to a couple parking near disasters!! It got parked in the back of my dad's service station and a couple sheets put over it. Once a year dad would start it, drive it maybe a mile away and a mile back and park it. In 1964 it was given to me as a birthday present. I still have it and it now has 11,872 miles on it. The rear seat still has the plastic covering over it. The air cleaner on my car is different from yours, it is called the "batwing" type, has two inlets and is the same as what Oldsmobile and Cadillac used. It runs and drives great, never been in the rain that I am aware of. Dark blue body, light blue top and a blue and blue interior. Built to last back then.
Congratulations - you must be very pleased with the results of all your efforts (and expense!!). I knew the '58 Buicks were the all time record holder for quantity of chrome but it's still incredible to see just how much they used and the contracts to the '59 models which had hardly any chrome by comparison.
I'm not much of a fan of "old" anything really, but I cannot help but be awed by this car. Even more so because it shows that America, at some point of history actually had style and class.
A cool post. Memory: Christmas, 1957, on my brand new bicycle, the first time I ever saw a new car “in person”, it was a 58 Buick in the neighborhood. I looked at the beauty and seriously asked myself, “how will they ever improve on this styling?” I thought car design could never get better.
A fellow that lived on a street not far from my home, bought one of these for his wife. It was pink button and had a white roof. Great riding car. I was only 12-13 y/o but I had a great appreciation for the cars of my youth. It didn’t have a needle in the speedometer, it had a red ribbon that came out of the left to the right to indicate the attained speed. And since everything back then, had a break in time,it had a small knob under dash to adjust the speedometer speed. So you couldn’t forget the break in speeds.
Superb shape...museum piece. I remember riding in friends' parents' cars back in early 60's where the manufacturer had "Power Brake" boldly displayed on the pedal exactly like that.
Beautiful 58 ! That is my favorite Buick followed by the 59. One thing to note though, the 57 Buick had the exact same dash as the 58. My father had 2 of the 1958’s and just like you it was a rough job polishing the grille in them. Once again just want to tell you it is an absolute beautiful 1958 Buick.
I thought the same thing about the 57 dash. They were about the same but not as much chrome in the 57. The gauges were changed slightly, too. Their denotation was silk screened on the speedometer face in 58 but on the gauge face in 57. Otherwise, the gauges would interchange.
I learned to drive in a '58 Buick Special. White with a brown top (top was painted because owner didn't like a solid white car back then). I loved that car even though it wasn't "cool" by the teen standards of the day. To this day the '58 Buick is my favorite of all the cars ever built.
Or instead of a blanket, you could use it as a bookmark when stopping for gas on cross country trips. But back in the 50s the heater was lacking in heating the back seat very well, so a blanket was handy
The first '58 Buick I saw, and it sticks with me, was Champaign color and belonged to the owner of the apartment buildings across from my house in Chicago.
I can see why Chrysler products were popular in 1958. This car is extravagant and was cleaned up for 59, possibly in response to the forward look from the Chrysler stable.
just need the trunk mat for being perfect. In my madness of collecting among other cars, in the 1970's collected 17 1958 Buicks, 3 Limited's (conv, 2HT, 4HT), 3 Roadmasters (conv, 2HT, 4HT), 2 Supers (2HT, 4HT), 5 Century's (conv, 2HT, two 4HT and Caballero), Special (conv, 2HT, 4sed, 4HT Estate). All in near new condition (I owned an auto restoration shop) in my long lifetime have owned over 180 Buicks, more than any other car, currently have two 1963 Electra convertibles, '64 and '65 Riviera Gran Sport, plus IMPERIALS, '57 Plymouth's, Dodge and DeSoto fin cars. My flagship is my '63 Electra with 400,000+ miles in near new condition, the most reliable car I have owned through the 48 lower states, Mexico, Canada, and Alaska and 55 years (bought in '66.) Enjoy your '58.
@@scottmarshall4840 I just gave my last '58 to my best friend, my Caballero Estate in Warwick blue (also my '53 Roadmaster Estate), cut my collection down to 14 cars. Imperials from '64-65-66 in convert, 2dr ht, 4dr ht, '64-65 Buick Riviera's, 'two '57 Plymouth Belvederes 2ht and convert, '56 DeSoto Fireflite, and two '63 Electra Limited converts, others. I don't have pics of all in my computer, but have the '58 Limited convert and some other '58's. If you send your email address to I'll send pics, I'm going through thousands of my old car pics to add more at present, I had my restoration with detail section over 50 years and owned over 1000 cars in my lifetime, the oldest being a near perfect 1938 Buick Century dual sidemount, rumbleseat convertible in black with red interior and wheels, with tan top, ten years older than me.
The 58 Roadmaster was more attractive the Cadillac of that year. I think all the 1958 GM models were the best of the 50s decade. All were tricked out with chrome.
@@machtschnell7452 … yes, and the famous “fully finned” Cadillac was next year. Then, early 60s, GM went long, low and lean. Ford followed suit but Chrysler Corp cars did not. The early 60s GM cars were my prettiest, for me. I had a red 61 Chev Impala Convertible, grey/white interior. I never was more eligible but I still couldn’t land a girlfriend. That took a Nash Rambler. Another day. 😊😇 Be blessed, all.
That "thing" on the back of the front seat is called a "blanket cord." In olden days of motoring (no efficient heaters), "car blankets' were the norm. Better appointed cars had cords to neatly stow the blankets. Buick, whose target buyer was from the 'teens and '20s, remembered this thoughful touch, and ot was a selling point. If this is a Roadmaster 75, then its Flight Pitch Dynaflow (Buick's companion to the equally horrific Chevy Turboglide) has been removed and replaced with a Twin Turbine Dynflow, which many dealers did to try to stem customer complaints. Flight Pitch (Triple Turbine in '59, after Buick dumped the toxic Dynaflow name, and the transmission itself by 1963) was standard on the Roadmaster 75 and the ill-fated Limited, optional on all other cars that year. Why did Buick Division hold on to the gas guzzling, inefficient Dynaflow for so long? Buick was losing sales yearly to Olds on the low end, and Cadillac on the high end, both equipped with the highly efficient Dual Coupling Hydra-Matic. GM honcho Al Sloan was obsessed with developing a constant velocity transmission ever since he took over GM from Billy Durant. Even after the success of Hydra-Matic in 1938, Sloan equated the firm shifts to be a "lack of quality." After a few failed attempts to develop a mechanical friction CVT, the "Dynaflow project" began at Buick under Harlow Curtice, using hydrokinetic (torque converter) drive in the mid '30s. Although a failure at efficirncy, it provided Sloan's solution to smoothness. Cadillac and Oldsmobile weren't buying it, although Chevrolet took up the idea for their almost-as-inefficient Powerglide. By the early '50s, Buick knew they were in trouble with Dynaflow, but Sloan and Harlow Curtice would not budge. Finally, Sloan retired in "58, and Curtice in '62, and Dynaflow and its notorious inefficiency were gone by '64, replaced by the Twin Turbine 200 (built by Buick) and the Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 (built by Detroit Transmission Division), which Buick shared with Cadillac by mid-year in senior cars, which allowed GM to end production of the expensive and heavy four speed Hydra-Matic 315 at that time.
Magnificent. Just simply magnificent. Did he say “work of art”? You got that right. In 1958, there just were no limits. All the cigarette lighters. Can you imagine somebody lighting up in this car? I would shoot them. After ordering them out of the car first of course.
These cars had a level of workmanship that you will never see in modern vehicles. You can't put craftmanship into plastic.
Scott, you did your father proud!!! Absolutely gorgeous!!
Hats off with regards to the workmanship that went into the 58 Roadmaster both by GM and the restoration team. That level of build was gone by the early 1960'ies. Well done.
Cars back then were works of art. The attention to detail is amazing.
My Mom had a ‘58 Buick Special 2-dr coupe very much like this car, only in powder blue. So I road in the back seat of that regularly from the time I was five ‘til I was fourteen. Good memories. Very large car!
A work of automotive art. Thanks for posting this Buick classic.
The cord across the back of the front seat is a for a lap robe...a throwback to before automobiles had heating systems. Luxury cars had a place where a blanket or lap robe was hung so rear seat passengers could stay warm.
Thanks, I had never heard that!
Very interesting....I always thought those cords were for older (not so nimble) folks to pull themselves forward from sitting all the way back in the seat, to help enable to position themselves to more easily exit the car :)
Very good. I checked the comments before posting what you had said. Well done Sir.
100% correct.
@@daniellack3559 I think some were used for that thus they're broken! :-)
Thank you so much for not restomoding this great Buick Roadmaster! Your dedication is monumental…as was your investment in time and dollars.
This is one of, if not the, most difficult cars to restore. Hats off for such a great job.
You are right about that, I had a Corvette Restoration business for 20 years and Chevys are super easy compared to this. 3500+ man hours! You have to be nuts to do this, but, I could not buy one like it so I realized the only solution was to build my perfect idealized tribute memory of my dads car. Certainly not a money making scheme 😝
Wonderful sir! Your dad would be proud. The strap on the back of the front seat is intended for ladies garments or blankets to hang so as not to sit on them. Back when we dressed to the 9s and not sweat shirts and hoodies. Anyway this has got to be a showstopper!
Gorgeous.❤️😳❤️😍
In the 30s the cable/pull on the back of the front seat was used to hang a blanket to keep rear seat passengers warm.
That’s exactly what it’s for and was very handy in cold climates
The "rope"across the back of the front seat is to hang blankets on and is a holdover from when heaters were sketchy or nonexistent.
Heaters were fine by the 30s, The rope is for all the kiddies in the back to hold on to especially around corners. Remember, no seat belts.
@@reglook1 nope. Try again.
@@styldsteel1 what? You some kinna authority???
@@reglook1 it's called being educated Sam.
@@styldsteel1 Your education is lacking you never offerd an answer to the rope.
Just stunning in every way!
Absolutely gorgeous car
The factory air configuration is exceedingly rate and gratifying to see.
I sat here with a stupid grin across my face for every minute of this fantastic video. Thank you! A wonderful car from a positive and confident time that won't be seen again any time soon.
Ever...
Absolutely stunning car that I have never seen, or known to be restored to such condition. The amount chrome is amazing & an absolute work of art that you get to drive. Thank you for taking the time to create & share your video on RUclips.
beautiful. I think the entire '58 GM line is in a class by itself, and this one is at the top of the heap. Senior Buick with same body as senior Olds and Cadillac. I own a '58 Fleetwood, and it's the same roof, and even makes the same squeak when opening the hood! spectacular effort in restoring this 'ol girl...thx for showing.
I think the 58 Fleetwood might rival the 58 Buick for chrome.
“Body By Fisher” had done its best for all GM brands for ‘58, which is the 50th anniversary of the corporation😊👍
Cars did have different sounds. Mercedes was most obvious but the whole GM line was very similar in basic structural design.
Unbelievably beautiful! What a labor of love! Absolutely love the car and your personal story makes it so much better! What an American treasure, the car and your dedication as well! 👍👏
My grandmother had one of these we lived in Oakland California. I was 7 years old and we drove it back to Lincoln Nebraska on Route 66 then up. The car had a warning buzzer that alerted you if you were going to fast that you could set. I remember him saying a few choice words because he kept setting it off so he turned it up all the way. I have a 1966 Buick Skylark convertible I just had a frame off restoration. Maybe we’ll meet at a show somewhere. Thanks for the memories.
My dad had a 58 Super. Loved that car. I remember you started it by pushing the gas pedal to the floor. It also had cloth interior but it had very narrow stripes in it.
Very well done, and just a beautiful car.
The belt on the back of the seat is a holdover to Old Coach working days that would hold a blanket that would go across the knees of the people in the backseat
Absolutely gorgeous. What a work of American automotive art. The interior dash is museum quality. Good deal on your steering wheel re-cast. A/C? Yes please. Nice kleenex box. This is a beast of a beauty. Thanks for sharing your fix.
Yes 58's were chromed and garish, but I love them!
IT'S A WORK OF ART!! Thanks for sharing.
My father bought 1957 Olds 98, I could not take my eyes of all that chrome on the dash board. You are so lucky to have your Dads car, just like it rolled off the show room floor. Enjoy it for sure!
Absolutely beautiful . I'm almost speechless, thank you for sharing.
All the GM full size cars were very unique, one year only designs in 1958. Too bad the country was in a recession that year which greatly reduced the numbers produced. That’s a good thing if one is a collector… as the rarer the better. This is the best example of a ‘58 Roadmaster restoration I’ve ever seen! Thank you for sharing it. 👍👍👍
The strap going along the back of the front seat was to hold a blanket, which was a luxury item, a throwback to the horse and carriage days.
Fantastic! Superlative restoration, and done out of love for your Father. Still a magnificent automobile to this day. Thank You!
Outrageously brilliant car, so glad it's preserved and loved so well!
Gorgeous! I love old Buicks! Take us for a ride in her sometime soon!
Nice and clean and those Buick doors shut like a bank vaults too. Fabrics courtesy of EMS by chance ? When I was a boy in the mid 50's to about the late 60's MY dad would buy Buicks about every two years too. But having 5 kids and a pocket change job he had to get his Buicks from salvage yards and keep them running until they had to be towed away when the next one arrived to take it's place. I also learned that just because a non radial bias tire was almost bare of tread just how far one could run a tire down to until you absolutely had to have it replaced as most defective tires go bad in their first few months and if the tread goes 1/2 to 3/4 they most likely will go to the threads. Sounds stark to you ? Well, having lived or existed thru the depression era he did what he could to get by and was a good man of solid character.
From the era when a country's economic confidence was written in steel and *chrome,* lots and lots of chrome. A new Buick every 2 years? The dealer must've been rubbing his hands!
*Love* these pieces of American art- love to look at them and tip my cap to the dedication needed to restore and run them. Thank you.
Nothing exceeds like excess!
Magnificent machine. Brilliant renovation.
Thanks for sharing ☺️.
What a marvelous autombile...as an 11 yr old in 1958, it always blew me away, to see a car which had power windows, power seats, and built in factory installed a/c...especially on anything but a Caddy...They were wondrous, and were the talk and star of the block/neighborhood :)...You must get a million comments from Boomers when out on display...Thanks very much for posting the vid...made my day!
58s had transmission problems in the big series so a lot of them were converted from Flight Pitch Dynaflow with "G" instead of "L" to Variable Pitch Dynaflow, as this car appears to have been. It's impossible to get parts for the Flight Pitch these days. GM offered a kit to do the job back in the day, but now you'd have to find a parts car. Part of the conversion involved changing the steering column and shift quadrant. Big series cars were also noted for braking control arms.
I think it was the 58 Olds that had a removable radio, chrome faced as well.
@@TooLooze It was call a "Transportable Radio" offered by Olds in '57 and '58. It even had a handle.
@@skinnerhound2660 Thanks!
The beauty, luxury and style of Cadillac at 30% less. I am plain jealous!
Must have cost a fortune to restore. Very rare car and parts are scarce. Thanks for preserving this piece of American history.
Stunning...my parents had a white super (one under the Roadmaster) in white....gorgeous work of art!
Absolutely beautiful !
Can’t wait to see the trunk completed .
Remarkable restoration 😍
Beautiful automobile. My parents bought a 1950 Roadmaster not long after I was born. I learned to drive in that car. It was not as nice as this one but we made many trips in it and it was very smooth.
Absolutely gorgeous. We had one similar back in early 60's. It was like a house on wheels. Riding 8 deep.
It's great to see 4 door cars restored, and this one is beyond perfect. I always loved '58 Buicks, we had an aunt and uncle with a black and white Special 4 door sedan. They traded it in for a '65 LeSabre Custom 4 door sedan.
White is perfect white for the hot tropical sun. Want to relocate it to the US Virgin Islands? Pay the cost of transportation and a storage unit and I’ll have it all washed and ready to fo when you want to do some very scenic short driving trips. An excellent retirement plan, isn’t it?
You only live once. 😄 I’m Rob Kunkel, St. Thomas, ready, willing and able.🌴💐
The Oldsmobile had a lot of chrome in that year almost the same amount .😁
I have one of those too! Not quite as much chrome , but, close.
Noice!!! Loved all that chromed out dashboard! As a kid I sat in my father's Buick and just gawked at that dash for hours. Then I discovered the cigarette lighter,.......dad was not happy..lol R.I.P. Dad....
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Our dad was a salesman so we never had a car too long but he bought a ‘58 Roadmaster and we kept that for ten years. I just took it for granted. It was just a car to me because we kept it until it was done. I think mom got $150 for it.
Wow, that’s a BEAUTY!
That interior is a work of art.
Beautiful Roadmaster
Kudos, Scott! Your respect for these cars shows in your insistence on originality and dogged attention to detail.
I am fortunate. Also, I am old, I rode in my 1958 2dr hardtop when it was new. My aunt and uncle bought it in Flint Michigan where it was made. They put 4700 (47 hundred) miles on it and uncle saw the 1959 and had to have a bright red 59 convertible. So my mom bought the car in 1959 and decided it was too big due to a couple parking near disasters!! It got parked in the back of my dad's service station and a couple sheets put over it. Once a year dad would start it, drive it maybe a mile away and a mile back and park it. In 1964 it was given to me as a birthday present. I still have it and it now has 11,872 miles on it. The rear seat still has the plastic covering over it. The air cleaner on my car is different from yours, it is called the "batwing" type, has two inlets and is the same as what Oldsmobile and Cadillac used. It runs and drives great, never been in the rain that I am aware of. Dark blue body, light blue top and a blue and blue interior. Built to last back then.
Wow! That’s awesome do you have any pictures? Is it a roadmaster?
Nice restoration-a work of rolling art
Congratulations - you must be very pleased with the results of all your efforts (and expense!!). I knew the '58 Buicks were the all time record holder for quantity of chrome but it's still incredible to see just how much they used and the contracts to the '59 models which had hardly any chrome by comparison.
Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍 : My dad a 58 Olds 98 coupe . People mix chrome with stainless. Nice car , great video ☕️👀😎👍🇺🇸
Looks gorgeous in white.
I had a '58 Cadillac sedan back in the day and it wasn't nearly this nice. You did a wonderful job on this!
A beautiful lady and member of your family. Bravo.
I'm not much of a fan of "old" anything really, but I cannot help but be awed by this car. Even more so because it shows that America, at some point of history actually had style and class.
A cool post. Memory: Christmas, 1957, on my brand new bicycle, the first time I ever saw a new car “in person”, it was a 58 Buick in the neighborhood. I looked at the beauty and seriously asked myself, “how will they ever improve on this styling?” I thought car design could never get better.
Absoluetly beautiful.........
A fellow that lived on a street not far from my home, bought one of these for his wife. It was pink button and had a white roof. Great riding car. I was only 12-13 y/o but I had a great appreciation for the cars of my youth. It didn’t have a needle in the speedometer, it had a red ribbon that came out of the left to the right to indicate the attained speed. And since everything back then, had a break in time,it had a small knob under dash to adjust the speedometer speed. So you couldn’t forget the break in speeds.
Congratulations, Scott!
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NICE, Dad had a 58 Roadmaster convertible, all white with blacktop..
What a beauty! Nice '58 Roadmaster.
I drove many miles in one of these. It was a very pretty light turquois paint andmatching interior.
Superb shape...museum piece. I remember riding in friends' parents' cars back in early 60's where the manufacturer had "Power Brake" boldly displayed on the pedal exactly like that.
Beautiful 58 ! That is my favorite Buick followed by the 59. One thing to note though, the 57 Buick had the exact same dash as the 58.
My father had 2 of the 1958’s and just like you it was a rough job polishing the grille in them.
Once again just want to tell you it is an absolute beautiful 1958 Buick.
I thought the same thing about the 57 dash. They were about the same but not as much chrome in the 57. The gauges were changed slightly, too. Their denotation was silk screened on the speedometer face in 58 but on the gauge face in 57. Otherwise, the gauges would interchange.
Anyone remember the Perry Mason episode where District Attorney Hamilton Berger shows up at a crime scene in one of these?
My mother had a white 1958 Roadmaster with light blue upholstery. What a wonderful car! The only accessory it didn't have was the Autronic Eye.
"The King of Chrome".
I learned to drive in a Buick like this with factory air. I remember the car as being very reliable.
I learned to drive in a '58 Buick Special. White with a brown top (top was painted because owner didn't like a solid white car back then). I loved that car even though it wasn't "cool" by the teen standards of the day. To this day the '58 Buick is my favorite of all the cars ever built.
Chrome makes a car.....period!
That's what's missing with new cars even the luxury cars don't have it if you see one with it it's rare or it's a after market add on too bad
Oh Man chrome is my favorite color!
That car is a thing of beauty. '58 GM models were works of art. There has been NO year since then that automobiles are true works of art.
Prettiest example I have ever seen. I had a yellow 2 dr sedan special as a kid. 3 speed on the column
super
the world needs your kind of dedication
And Factory Air !
Or instead of a blanket, you could use it as a bookmark when stopping for gas on cross country trips.
But back in the 50s the heater was lacking in heating the back seat very well, so a blanket was handy
As beautiful as this car is, the true greatness is in how it drives - smooth, quiet, strong. Bet it has a tube type radio ...
Not only is the WonderBar radio a tube radio, it also has a special tube that operates the signal seeking feature.
A beautiful car you have there.
Bought a brand new Buick every two years!? 👌👌so late 50s 😂 beautiful beautiful restored Roadmaster ! Love this car!!
WOW UPON WOW!!! JUST AMAZING!!!
The first '58 Buick I saw, and it sticks with me, was Champaign color and belonged to the owner of the apartment buildings across from my house in Chicago.
I can see why Chrysler products were popular in 1958. This car is extravagant and was cleaned up for 59, possibly in response to the forward look from the Chrysler stable.
totally amazing ... thanks for the video
Just fantastic!
What a beautiful car, great job, love it.
Absolutely beautiful!
just need the trunk mat for being perfect. In my madness of collecting among other cars, in the 1970's collected 17 1958 Buicks, 3 Limited's (conv, 2HT, 4HT), 3 Roadmasters (conv, 2HT, 4HT), 2 Supers (2HT, 4HT), 5 Century's (conv, 2HT, two 4HT and Caballero), Special (conv, 2HT, 4sed, 4HT Estate). All in near new condition (I owned an auto restoration shop) in my long lifetime have owned over 180 Buicks, more than any other car, currently have two 1963 Electra convertibles, '64 and '65 Riviera Gran Sport, plus IMPERIALS, '57 Plymouth's, Dodge and DeSoto fin cars. My flagship is my '63 Electra with 400,000+ miles in near new condition, the most reliable car I have owned through the 48 lower states, Mexico, Canada, and Alaska and 55 years (bought in '66.) Enjoy your '58.
What a great story, Larry!
Do you still have the 58’s? Any pictures?
@@scottmarshall4840 I just gave my last '58 to my best friend, my Caballero Estate in Warwick blue (also my '53 Roadmaster Estate), cut my collection down to 14 cars. Imperials from '64-65-66 in convert, 2dr ht, 4dr ht, '64-65 Buick Riviera's, 'two '57 Plymouth Belvederes 2ht and convert, '56 DeSoto Fireflite, and two '63 Electra Limited converts, others. I don't have pics of all in my computer, but have the '58 Limited convert and some other '58's. If you send your email address to I'll send pics, I'm going through thousands of my old car pics to add more at present, I had my restoration with detail section over 50 years and owned over 1000 cars in my lifetime, the oldest being a near perfect 1938 Buick Century dual sidemount, rumbleseat convertible in black with red interior and wheels, with tan top, ten years older than me.
Stunning! How many similar 1958 Buick Roadmasters still exist in the USA?
Over the top, but georgeous IMHO.
Great. Congratulations.
In 1962 my father had a Buick Special with 3 on the tree. Not too many had stick shift back than.
The 58 Roadmaster was more attractive the Cadillac of that year. I think all the 1958 GM models were the best of the 50s decade. All were tricked out with chrome.
Even the 58 Vette!
@@lisa_houstongir1895 sure, but the Vette was unique from it's inception. I wasn't thinking of them as they were a unique market.
58 was the first year of the Impala with its 6 tail lights. Pontiac was pretty Baroque, also. The the caddies were nearing maximum fin size, too.
@@machtschnell7452 … yes, and the famous “fully finned” Cadillac was next year. Then, early 60s, GM went long, low and lean. Ford followed suit but Chrysler Corp cars did not. The early 60s GM cars were my prettiest, for me. I had a red 61 Chev Impala Convertible, grey/white interior. I never was more eligible but I still couldn’t land a girlfriend. That took a Nash Rambler. Another day. 😊😇 Be blessed, all.
What a beautiful automobile !!!!!
Beautiful car. U did well
That "thing" on the back of the front seat is called a "blanket cord." In olden days of motoring (no efficient heaters), "car blankets' were the norm. Better appointed cars had cords to neatly stow the blankets. Buick, whose target buyer was from the 'teens and '20s, remembered this thoughful touch, and ot was a selling point.
If this is a Roadmaster 75, then its Flight Pitch Dynaflow (Buick's companion to the equally horrific Chevy Turboglide) has been removed and replaced with a Twin Turbine Dynflow, which many dealers did to try to stem customer complaints. Flight Pitch (Triple Turbine in '59, after Buick dumped the toxic Dynaflow name, and the transmission itself by 1963) was standard on the Roadmaster 75 and the ill-fated Limited, optional on all other cars that year.
Why did Buick Division hold on to the gas guzzling, inefficient Dynaflow for so long? Buick was losing sales yearly to Olds on the low end, and Cadillac on the high end, both equipped with the highly efficient Dual Coupling Hydra-Matic. GM honcho Al Sloan was obsessed with developing a constant velocity transmission ever since he took over GM from Billy Durant. Even after the success of Hydra-Matic in 1938, Sloan equated the firm shifts to be a "lack of quality." After a few failed attempts to develop a mechanical friction CVT, the "Dynaflow project" began at Buick under Harlow Curtice, using hydrokinetic (torque converter) drive in the mid '30s. Although a failure at efficirncy, it provided Sloan's solution to smoothness. Cadillac and Oldsmobile weren't buying it, although Chevrolet took up the idea for their almost-as-inefficient Powerglide. By the early '50s, Buick knew they were in trouble with Dynaflow, but Sloan and Harlow Curtice would not budge. Finally, Sloan retired in "58, and Curtice in '62, and Dynaflow and its notorious inefficiency were gone by '64, replaced by the Twin Turbine 200 (built by Buick) and the Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 (built by Detroit Transmission Division), which Buick shared with Cadillac by mid-year in senior cars, which allowed GM to end production of the expensive and heavy four speed Hydra-Matic 315 at that time.
When real cars were made, this is a beautiful classic!
Magnificent. Just simply magnificent. Did he say “work of art”? You got that right. In 1958, there just were no limits. All the cigarette lighters. Can you imagine somebody lighting up in this car? I would shoot them. After ordering them out of the car first of course.
Agreed. Once the blood dried it would show on that upholstery.
I typically don’t like American cars, but this is amazing! Thank you for sharing your beautiful car with us.