#deuceandaquarter

@Regran_ed from @502whips_ - Kidwells on the handwash got the deuce and a quarter looking sharp #deuceandaquarter #225 #buick #forgiato #Electra 📸:#kidwells - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BoermbVloVC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ow5u8t6qbtka

Car Spotting Deuce n a Q in N. Mia Bch. #buick #buickelectra #buickelectra225 #electra225 #deuceandaquarter (at Allen Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPrSg2_JsFn/?utm_medium=tumblr

A classic #deuceandaquarter as it was meant to be - long, low, and wide. Bold, befinned, and brand new, the #Electra replaced the Roadmaster in 1959 and at first there were two versions - the 220” Electra and the bigger, plusher, 225” long Electra 225. In the days of “bigger is better,” what better way to say “best” than actually putting the length of the car in the name? The actual length changed to 219 inches in 1961 and the size would vary, but the #Electra225 label stuck until 1980; sometimes supplemented by “Limited,” a 1930s label. - The original ’59 was a radical break from the past, clean sides, trapezoidal canted fins, and new names - but over time, the Electra 225 would become a conservative mainstay of American luxury sedans. A Cadillac in Tri-shield garb, it rode the same C-body platform as the DeVille and the related, but typically even more conservative Oldsmobile 98. The first four seasons of Electras were a mixture of styles as fins gave way to space-age modern, but in 1963 the car settled into a slab-sided, understated Lincoln-influenced look. - 1964 was an evolution from 1963, but there were some key differences under the hood - primarily the replacement of Buick’s ancient Dynaflow with the Super Turbine 400 transmission - better known as the Turbo Hydramatic THM400. The Dynaflow, the first torque converter automatic, was designed to minimize driver involvement and the very obvious shifts of the early Hydra-Matic, which would have been amplified in the torque-tubes of 1940s #Buicks. - In practice, Dynaflows were almost like CVTs (indeed, Buick experimented with a friction-drive proto-CVT in the 1930s). Unless you were in “low,” the transmission was effectively always in high gear - which made it very smooth but equally inefficient. The Super Turbine wasn’t unique to Buick but it made the cars better performers and, although MPG was never the Electra’s forte, mileage also greatly improved. - Power came to the Super Turbine via the 401 (325hp) or optional 425 cid (340 hp) Buick V8s, pulling five hefty bodies (~4,200 lbs.) - a sleek coupe and convertible and a trio of 4-doors which shared Cadillac’s basic rooflines with slight modifications. https://www.instagram.com/oldmotors/p/BwHxrXlFxwg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gs8q3w3erdhy

A classic #deuceandaquarter - few cars were as bold and brash and aspirational as Buick’s flagship #landyacht in the 1960s. The #Electra replaced the Roadmaster in 1959, but there were two versions - the 220” long Electra and the biggest, plushest version - the 225” long Electra 225. In the days of “bigger is better,” what better way to say “best” than actually putting the length of the car in the name?  Over time, the Electra 225 would become a mainstay of the luxury trade, even as it grew beyond 225 inches. It was a Cadillac in Tri-shield form, riding the same C-body platform as the DeVille and the related, but more conservative, Olds 98. All three C-bodies had grown to elphantine proportions by the end of the sixties but they were long, low, and luxurious, and nobody cared about single-digit fuel mileage in 1969. The Electra 225 was by then two series - the regular and the custom, with the droptop available only in the top-spec Custom series. It packed a single engine - Buick’s 430-cube, 360-hp V8 from the Wildcat. But big conservative luxury cars and not-at-all conservative convertibles were always an odd match, and even though #1969 was a really good year for the convertible, just 8,294 were made. Then as now, lots of people want convertibles, but not everybody can actually live with one. #Buick built 40,146 Electra hardtop coupes by comparison. Most Buick colors at that time, as you might expect, veered towards the conservative, but this car is finished in Cameo Cream - one of a few light colors that included Azure Blue and, the best of them all - Lime Green Iridium. Cameo Cream was not for shrinking violets - you can see this car from space. The C-body convertibles were not replaced when the big cars were redesigned in 1971 - one of the first parts of a general migration away from slow-selling droptops and towards safety legislation that left Cadillac’s Eldorado as the sole American convertible in 1976. #buick #buickelectra #buickelectra225 #electra225 #electralimited #ig_autoshow #asundaycarpic #soloparking #retro #practicalclassics #retrorides #soloparking #soulcarcollective #renegade_rides #trb_autozone #youngtimer #classiccars #americancars 

Mom found some old classics. Rolling in the Electra 224 in 1974. Sidenote, I really think Jackson might be my kid. #buickelectra225 #deuceandaquarter #tbt #busterbrown #myfrowastight #70skid #blackandwhite

A 2016 throwback release from Crosby Bing X ILoveMakonnen called “Deuce and A Quarter”.. Get a free listen here: https://soundcloud.com/crosbybing/deuce-and-a-quarter-cb-x-ilovemakonnen