Figured some would enjoy this! This is my 1929 Buick 29-57 one of 11 left and the only 100% original running and driving one left , I am the 3rd owner of this car the original family purchased it brand new in Denver on August 16th 1928 for $2258 cash! The last photo is of me with the original owners grave
The guy who bought it originally was a very prominent Denver attorney so he definitely had the money!
That's a beautiful car. I'm not trying to hijack your thread, but I'm curious. Does your Buick have the ride control on the dash? I ask because I found one in a dilapidated barn in western Indiana back in 1974. The story I got from the original owners' granddaughter was that her grandfather, a doctor, had driven it into the barn in 1957 and it never moved again and no, it was not for sale. When I saw it, the tires were sunk into the dirt floor, but overall, it was in very good shape. It was a dark blue like yours with a red pinstripe just under the window line. Along with the two small cutgl*** bud vases on the B pillars, it had a graduated scale on the dash with a handle you could move up or down to adjust the ride from "rough road" to "smooth road". There were rods that went from the dash to bell cranks with more rods running along the frame to the shock absorbers. I've never seen another Buick with that feature. P.S. About a year after I saw the Buick, high winds came through and destroyed the barn and the Buick.
My father worked at a company named, Colorado Brake. It was on S. Broadway, Denver Co. This was in the late sixties, and he helped the business owner paint and getting it running. 1929 Buick Marquette. We drove it home and I remember him pulling over adjusting the mechanical brakes. I was around nine years old, I’ll never forget helping him sand the wooden spokes. Hopefully that ones still out there somewhere.
Henery Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, Charles W. Nash, Joseph L .Hudson, Henry J. Kaiser, Joseph W. Frazer etc.
It was blue, if my memory serves me right. My dad painted it in the middle of that dirty old shop. He did some pin striping on it as well. Wonder if that paint job held up. If it’s the same car, I rode Shotgun in that car. For the life of me, I can’t remember the names of the brothers that owned, Colorado Brake. That’s a long time ago. Thanks, Justin. If you can update us, if you cross paths with the 29.
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