This is my Master Six 5 passenger coupe, model 28-58. (Top of the line for the year).
This year, 221,758 vehicles left the Buick plant of which 9,984 were the model 58. The price at the time was a steep $1,850.
The cars this year reflected the company's Silver Jubilee celebration by coming in with major style changes in both Master and Standard series. This was accomplished through the user of large plain crown fenders without ridges, bullet-type headlights and parking lights, new styled radiator, cowl and hood contours and new chassis of the depressed center type, allowing the bodies to be lower.
All other specifications remained the same from the previous year. The Master Six used the 274 cubic-inch engine of 29.4 SAE horsepower and 128 inches wheelbase and 33 X 6 inch tubed tires.
Mechanically, this was Buick's first year using a "Standardized H" gearshift. Hydraulic shock absorbers also appeared for the first time as a standard equipment, as did an adjustable driver's seat. The Delco and Remy corporations merged this year as subsidiaries of General Motors, and thus all electrical equipment was now Delco-Remy.
-Source: 70 Years of Buick by George H. Dammann
Car owned by Denis Beaulieu, Sault, ON Previously owned by Mr. J. Burton, Sault, MI
1928 Buick Model 58
This is my Master Six 5 passenger coupe, model 28-58.
(Top of the line for the year).
This year, 221,758 vehicles left the Buick plant of which 9,984 were the model 58. The price at the time was a steep $1,850.
The cars this year reflected the company's Silver Jubilee celebration by coming in with major style changes in both Master and Standard series. This was accomplished through the user of large plain crown fenders without ridges, bullet-type headlights and parking lights, new styled radiator, cowl and hood contours and new chassis of the depressed center type, allowing the bodies to be lower.
All other specifications remained the same from the previous year. The Master Six used the 274 cubic-inch engine of 29.4 SAE horsepower and 128 inches wheelbase and 33 X 6 inch tubed tires.
Mechanically, this was Buick's first year using a "Standardized H" gearshift. Hydraulic shock absorbers also appeared for the first time as a standard equipment, as did an adjustable driver's seat. The Delco and Remy corporations merged this year as subsidiaries of General Motors, and thus all electrical equipment was now Delco-Remy.
-Source: 70 Years of Buick by George H. Dammann
Car owned by Denis Beaulieu, Sault, ON
Previously owned by Mr. J. Burton, Sault, MI