Vintage Auto Ads Buick (GM) 1946-1960

Ads from 1946-1960

This is part of my collection of vintage ads from Buick. Again, most of them were published in the Saturday Evening Post, the Country Gentleman, Life or Better Home& Garden. My favorites are 1947/48 and 1955 Buicks, so most of the ads are from that period.

Another styling cue from the 1940s through the 1970s was the "sweepspear", a curved line running the length of the car. First this was a chrome-plated rub strip which, after it passed the front wheel, curved down to the rocker panel just before the rear wheel, and then around the rear wheel in a quarter of a circle and then back to the tail-light. On two-tone colored cars, the sweepspear separated two different color areas.

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