TODAYS SELECTION:

1949 Buick

It IS a small, small world.

I took the Buick to the local ColoRODans car show at the Boulder County Fairgrounds here in Longmont back in late July. It's the third or fourth time I have shown it there, as it's close to the shop which makes this easy to do.

While I was there this time, a man named Bob Orr introduced himself and said that he thought that he had a photo of the Buick, parked on a street in Boulder's "Hill" area (near the University of Colorado campus), that he had taken while riding around on a motorcycle in the neighborhood with his sister's barrowed Kodak Instamatic camera back in 1962. He was a 14 year old interested in cars, and would ride around photographing those he thought were interesting, different of exciting to him.

He said that he would send me a copy, which he did, and I followed this up by barrowing the negative to have a digital copy made to disc, and some 8x10 enlargements printed up.

The first photo is the one he took back then. It was slightly blurred, due to him taking it off the motorcycle, but it definitely appears to be the same car, before it was parked outside and englected for the last 30 years before I bought it and had it built up into a street rod by Carl Wells at C.W. Performance.

What a great coincidence to decide to attend that car show (this was just before we were to leave for Virginia, so I wasn't going to take the Buick there this time), and that Bob Orr happend to also attend it.

I have been wondering about the cars early history, and outside of the story supplied by the person I bought it from, whose brother had been in the military service with the guy who had found it while stationed somewhere in Europe and had brought it back with him when he returned to the States, after which it fell to disuse and was stored outside both by the guy who brought it back, and then by the guy I bought it from, until I purchased it in March of 2000.

Eventually, I am going to send this 1962 photo to some magazines (Hemings, etc.) that have international distribution, with a request for anyone with information regarding the car to contact me.. Perhaps a long shot, but about the only way to find out "the rest of the story", as to where the car was modified, by whom, and for whom.

I thought those of you who I am sending this to might like to see the photo Bob Orr took back then.

Later,
JB

1962 Photo