The three tones - Dover white, Tahiti coral and Carlsbad black - and all that chrome makes Jody and Katherine Glaser’s ‘56 Buick a really special classic car.
The Glaser’s ‘56 Buick Special, a stunner inside and out, gets a lot of ‘smiles per gallon’ when they head up to cottage country and cruise the Georgian Bay area in the summertime.
Classic car and classy driver. With more than 40 years in car sales, and his wife retiring after 36 years at the University of Toronto, Jody and Katherine Glaser decided it was time to cruise down Memory Lane in a 1956 Buick Special.
Cruising into retirement in style. Katherine Glaser decided to learn how to drive after retiring from her job at the University of Toronto last year. That’s when she and her husband Jody decided to buy their 1956 Buick Special.
The Story: Last year was special for several reasons. It marked, for me, over 40 years of selling vehicles, and it was the year that my wife, Katherine, was retiring from 36 years at the University of Toronto.
It was also when she planned to finally get her driver’s licence.
And what better way to remember all of this than with a classic car? Our choice was something from 1956 — the year of big chrome, two-tone exteriors — and interiors and fins that were not yet too exaggerated.
As luck had it, after months and months searching ads on Kijiji and visiting car shows, we found a 1956 Buick Special in the town of Innisfil, Ont.
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The car came from Prince Edward Island and was all original in a rare three-tone exterior. Dover white, Tahiti coral and Carlsbad black made for a stunning combination with all that Buick chrome.
I took delivery last October, on my birthday weekend, and it immediately went into winter storage. The search was now over.
You really have to relearn how to drive a ’50s vehicle with drum brakes and no power steering! Best advice is keep lots of room around you.
The ’56 is our cottage car, and it was driven often this summer to Balm Beach, Orillia and the Collingwood Elvis Festival, always drawing lots of attention wherever we go.
To sum it up, it’s not the miles per gallon, it’s the smiles per gallon that make every outing an experience.
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