I remember seeing a 56 Buick two door Century in my town that was a party machine for the town drunks. I thought what a great car if restored. I ended up buying it off a used car lot a broken down junker. I worked on it for three years and it was gorgeous. But I needed to sell it to buy a house that I still live in. Thank you 1956 Buick.😢😊
Great ole Buick! I think '56 was the best year for cars, before they started cutting cirners and using cheaper parts. The '56 Chevy was a nice car too, real solid. Thanls for posting!
Nice car, my friend had a 55 and it was the first car that I ever saw with the gas pedal starter. I'd keep it original and just clean the crap out of it and fix what you have to.
Love the car! Looks like you’ve got a gem especially with it starting as well and driving (at least one way)! Keep it all original!!! Those are getting more rare as time passes! Well done!
I've owned 4 of them and the main issue with the "vacuum" fuel pump is the windshield wipers are vacuum operated from the fuel pump, at least the three 50's; 54.55, 56 were. the 61 I believe had electric. The issue was that as the diaphragm in the fuel pump aged and the wipers were running, the pump would draw oil from the crankcase and would leak. the solution was to replace the pump or if you were on the cheap you would reroute the vacuum line to a spot on the intake manifold, but when you gave it the gas the vacuum would be drawn away from the wipers and the wipers would stop until you let up. Lots of fun.
Young man that is a nice 56 Buick runs like a champ that engine and exhaust sounds really good a little tender love and care and a clean up, it's really solid too.The body interior everything great fine fix that nice baby up you got you a nice car. Again great fine those engines are good engines my dad had a 56 Buick and that motor ran forever 👍🏼🙌🏼
Best view during startup ever. Please make more like this! So cool to see what you're doing with the gas pedal. Starting carbureted cars is becoming a lost art and its so cool to watch... Subscribed!
Hi Dean..great car and kudos to you for saving it..hey find an old Chilton's or motors manual and it will have transmission troubleshooting section in it for the dynaflow..I'd bet any rubber or plastic bushings between the shift linkage and trans are worn out or missing completely considering the age of the car..also with old cars like that and just putting around I'd spray the chrome down with wd40 and go over it with 4-0 steel wool to clean it up..doing that and seeing it shine a bit always encouraged me to work on making it look better and continuing to work on it..I've subscribed to your channel and I'm looking fwd to another video. If you need that trans troubleshooting literature give me a shout, I'm in Ct. and I'd be happy to mail it up to New York..keep up the good work!
I have a '56 Buick Special 4 door Riviera I have owned for 35 years. I was just a kid when I acquired it. Now I am an old man but the car still looks the same! The carburetor you have on your car is a two barrel Stromberg. They either came with a Carter or a Stromberg. You have a standard hot air choke from the manifold. The electric device you showed in the video is the Startex switch for the throttle starter.
Yep, keep it all original if possible!! Back in the day when I worked on my tri five Chevy, I had a U shaped box wrench, wide at the base )about 5 inches)and the two upright ends were about 3 inches high. It was made specifically for those starters. Great video!
Young man I forgot to mention also That's a winner pretty rare 2-door hardtop they usually come in the 4 door usually that's what's left but the 2-door hardtops are hard to come by just thought I'd add; that in my comments. Keep it original put some nice tires on there some nice white walls the Coker classic white walls that baby will look really nice good luck young man.
Keep all buick. And as original as much as possible
I remember seeing a 56 Buick two door Century in my town that was a party machine for the town drunks. I thought what a great car if restored. I ended up buying it off a used car lot a broken down junker. I worked on it for three years and it was gorgeous. But I needed to sell it to buy a house that I still live in. Thank you 1956 Buick.😢😊
Great ole Buick! I think '56 was the best year for cars, before they started cutting cirners and using cheaper parts. The '56 Chevy was a nice car too, real solid. Thanls for posting!
Nice car, my friend had a 55 and it was the first car that I ever saw with the gas pedal starter. I'd keep it original and just clean the crap out of it and fix what you have to.
Great video. Excellent treatment of the subject. I remember Buicks of that era for their quirky starters and short gear shifts.
Interesting video and I really enjoyed watching you start it.
Nice car, always liked the old Buicks.
Love the car! Looks like you’ve got a gem especially with it starting as well and driving (at least one way)! Keep it all original!!! Those are getting more rare as time passes! Well done!
Nice to hear it running, and seeing it move, it looks great the way it is.
So cool to see this 56 Buick come back to life. My vote is to keep her original
I've owned 4 of them and the main issue with the "vacuum" fuel pump is the windshield wipers are vacuum operated from the fuel pump, at least the three 50's; 54.55, 56 were. the 61 I believe had electric. The issue was that as the diaphragm in the fuel pump aged and the wipers were running, the pump would draw oil from the crankcase and would leak. the solution was to replace the pump or if you were on the cheap you would reroute the vacuum line to a spot on the intake manifold, but when you gave it the gas the vacuum would be drawn away from the wipers and the wipers would stop until you let up. Lots of fun.
Young man that is a nice 56 Buick runs like a champ that engine and exhaust sounds really good a little tender love and care and a clean up, it's really solid too.The body interior everything great fine fix that nice baby up you got you a nice car. Again great fine those engines are good engines my dad had a 56 Buick and that motor ran forever 👍🏼🙌🏼
Please keep it original! They were stellar cars in their day!
Best view during startup ever. Please make more like this! So cool to see what you're doing with the gas pedal. Starting carbureted cars is becoming a lost art and its so cool to watch... Subscribed!
Hi Dean..great car and kudos to you for saving it..hey find an old Chilton's or motors manual and it will have transmission troubleshooting section in it for the dynaflow..I'd bet any rubber or plastic bushings between the shift linkage and trans are worn out or missing completely considering the age of the car..also with old cars like that and just putting around I'd spray the chrome down with wd40 and go over it with 4-0 steel wool to clean it up..doing that and seeing it shine a bit always encouraged me to work on making it look better and continuing to work on it..I've subscribed to your channel and I'm looking fwd to another video. If you need that trans troubleshooting literature give me a shout, I'm in Ct. and I'd be happy to mail it up to New York..keep up the good work!
I have a '56 Buick Special 4 door Riviera I have owned for 35 years. I was just a kid when I acquired it. Now I am an old man but the car still looks the same! The carburetor you have on your car is a two barrel Stromberg. They either came with a Carter or a Stromberg. You have a standard hot air choke from the manifold. The electric device you showed in the video is the Startex switch for the throttle starter.
It's a good old car. It runs, moves more or less, and the brake lights still work.
Yep, keep it all original if possible!! Back in the day when I worked on my tri five Chevy, I had a U shaped box wrench, wide at the base )about 5 inches)and the two upright ends were about 3 inches high. It was made specifically for those starters. Great video!
The car looks and sounds great. I hope you fix the dynaflow. Good video.
Young man I forgot to mention also That's a winner pretty rare 2-door hardtop they usually come in the 4 door usually that's what's left but the 2-door hardtops are hard to come by just thought I'd add; that in my comments. Keep it original put some nice tires on there some nice white walls the Coker classic white walls that baby will look really nice good luck young man.