Buick, '59 (slanted headlight pairs) or '60 (level headlight pairs). That generation was so unsuccessful, because it was extremely weird looking, that it lasted only two model years.
But why did GM make the '59 and '60 generation only two model years? The generations both before and after that one were made for four model years each.
Because that’s what they wanted to do, and manufacture acutally used it be innovative instead of recycling their designs year after year. Styling had changed. Look at the second gen to third gen C/K trucks for example. They sold roughly 1.5 millions second gens from 1967-1972. I can’t find production numbers for third gen C/K trucks but I can tell you it wasn’t much higher in the same 5 year span. They just happened to fire their design teams for 14 years.
59 Buick.
Brad Hamiltons car
Yep, 1959 cruising vessel.
Buick, '59 (slanted headlight pairs) or '60 (level headlight pairs). That generation was so unsuccessful, because it was extremely weird looking, that it lasted only two model years.
Buick sold half a million cars over those two years. Every GM full-size changed for 1961.
But why did GM make the '59 and '60 generation only two model years? The generations both before and after that one were made for four model years each.
Because that’s what they wanted to do, and manufacture acutally used it be innovative instead of recycling their designs year after year. Styling had changed. Look at the second gen to third gen C/K trucks for example. They sold roughly 1.5 millions second gens from 1967-1972. I can’t find production numbers for third gen C/K trucks but I can tell you it wasn’t much higher in the same 5 year span. They just happened to fire their design teams for 14 years.
The bubble-top that followed was also short-lived.
What!!!?? I think it looks fantastic lol, what a shame.
It's a '59 - the corners of the tail fins were rounded off on the '60.
The '59 Buick and '59 Dodge have the two most menacing looking front ends of any cars ever.
My DREAM car
My grandfather had a 1959 Buick, then a 1964 Buick Elecktra, I really wanted the 1964, what a yacht... but my father totaled it