1949 Buick 50 Super Convertible 80,995 Miles Burgundy SURVIVOR! SOLID! WOW!

1949 Buick 50 Super Convertible Description

The Super shared a new General Motors C-body with the Roadmaster but on a shorter wheelbase. It featured three chrome VentiPorts on each front fender to denote its smaller straight-eight engine and shorter engine compartment when compared with the Roadmaster. The sales brochure noted that VentiPorts helped ventilate the engine compartment, and possibly that was true in early 1949, but sometime during the model year they became plugged. The idea for VentiPorts grew out of a modification Buick styling chief... Ned Nickles had added to his own 1948 Roadmaster. He had installed four amber lights on each side of his car's hood wired to the distributor so as to flash on and off as each piston fired simulating the flames from the exhaust stack of a fighter airplane. Combined with the bombsight mascot, VentiPorts put the driver at the controls of an imaginary fighter airplane. Upon seeing this, Buick chief Harlow Curtice was so delighted that he ordered that (non-lighting) VentiPorts be installed on all 1949 Buicks. Super script was found just above the full length body fender molding on the front fenders. New fender edge taillamps were featured while rear fender skins remained a Buick standard. New fender top parking lamps, harkening back to 1941 styling appeared. Full wheel trim discs were standard along with such features as a cigar lighter, ashtray, and automatic choke. Cloth interiors were standard, except on the convertible which was trimmed in leather and leatherette and had a power top, seat and windows as standard equipment. This is a solid example of the 1949 Buick. This car purrs like a kitten and the transmission shifts smoothly. This car spent most of its life in North Dakota and still wears the plates. The body is nice and dry. The hydraulics that run the power windows, seat and top are inop. We believe the line in the driver door may have leaked. You can see the doors paint is bubbled but there is no rot through. The brake system has new wheel cylinders and master cylinder but still are a little sticky. Many extra parts including Nos Spot lights and extra grille. Restore, Restomod, Drive it like it is your choice! Solid original car with one repaint.